The Puddock Pieces

Typography, Illustration, Printed matter, Performative (2024)


A scroll written in Doric, a language spoken in the North-East of Scotland, detailing an account of the rough history of Aberdeen and the Aberdeenshire area, alongside a glimpse into Doric literature and it’s importance.

With time the scroll has been fragmented, losing it’s former glory, acting as a message to prevent this from happening to this rich language and it’s history.

Roy

Type design (2023 — forever)


A Slab-Serif interpretation of “Leroy” by Oscar & Ewan, which was designed for Bonobo’s 2010 record “Black Sands”.
    Roy embraces the quirks of his Sans-Serifed cousin Leroy, like the pregnant ‘B’, angled bar on the ‘e’, and short tails on the ‘6’ and ‘9’, while also giving Roy his own personality, such as curvy ligatures, an extended glyphset and a swanky wardrobe, ranging from Hairline to Black weights and Backslants of each one.

In loving memory of Ewan Robertson.

Upon Heron Island

Installation, Photography, Printed matter (2023)


“A conversation between myself and the Walthamstow Wetlands over the past year, all of the recordings have been gathered in various forms and now presented, in abundance, overflowing from the ‘box’.”


“And as our conversation comes to a close, I am once again reminded;

“Come back soon,
we shall speak again””

A Lot of Sorrow

Art direction and design, Publication (2021)


Re-design of The National & Ragnar Kjartansson’s “A Lot of Sorrow”, the record consisted of the performance from The National’s 6-hour set of “Sorrow” from their 2010 record “High Violet”, which was performed at MoMA PS1 in 2013.

A lyric booklet to accompany it was designed, featuring photography taken on the night of the performance.

Breachan O’ Balgownie

System, Publication (2023)


A deconstructed tartan that challenges what tartan traditionally is and what we perceive it to be.
    Tartan is a form of diagram; a pattern consisting of vertical and or horizontal lines that communicate where someone is from.

The input for the tartan was the Brig O’ Balgownie, one of the oldest standing bridges in Scotland.

DROOTH

Branding and packaging design (2021)


Branding for a non-alcoholic gin - DROOTH, meaning “thirst”, the gin was inspired by the Donmouth and the Aberdeen beach, with views of ships sailing in and out of the harbour, and the pillboxes that litter the beach.

Focusing on the location as it’s source of inspiration, DROOTH is the perfect way to quench yer drooth.

re(compose)

Workshop, Card game (2023)


A card game focused on Wu Wei (the flow-state we enter while playing) and the joy of making.
    The premise is to recompose the shape labelled on the card, using the materials presented on the table, and to take a moment to recompose yourself.

The materials were mainly offcuts from old projects, packaging to be recycled, and scraps with no purpose remaining.

THE BRICKMAKER

Typography, Publication (2022)


A book in celebration of Adrian Frutiger, one of the greatest typographers to have ever lived.
    The book looks at the intricacies of 3 of his greatest works; “Univers”, “Frutiger”, and “Avenir”, in excruciating detail and analyses them with the same care and attention to detail as Frutiger had while creating them.


“I am the brickmaker, not the architect, I just make good bricks for graphic designers to build with.”

geogaddi

Art direction and design (2021)


Packaging for Boards of Canada’s 2002 record, “Geogaddi”.

Contrasting with the electronic and unsettling soundscape, the record cover is of the famous Bowfiddle Rock, off the coast of Portknockie, near where Boards of Canada hail from.

The Manfrotto Way

Illustration, Graphic Score, Publication (2023)


A translation of a chosen object, the publication consists of a Graphic Score of The National’s “High Violet”, mapped to specific points of a walk which was associated with a time in Noah’s life.

Each song represents an event that would happen each time on the walk, so some parts of the Graphic Score have brief visualisations while others last for a couple of minutes.

Art, Craft + Design Centre

Branding, Brand Guidelines, Merchandise, Publication (2022)


Branding for a fictional Art, Craft and Design centre in the South-side of Glasgow, in an old electricity generating station, and later, a printworks.

A Chiel I Ken

Photography, Letterpress, Screenprint, Printed matter (2023)


A series of postcards that focus on “where I’m from”, rather than “where I’ve been”.
    The photography was taken in Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, and the poetry was written by Zoe Boon.

The photography was screenprinted onto the postcards, a verse of the poem was then letterpressed onto the back of some of the postcards.
     The postcards were then wrapped in cloth, then wrapped in sheep’s wool to preserve them, and to be cherished for years to come.