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BROADSTONE MILL – ILLUSTRATION PROJECT

Last Summer (2023), I had the pleasure of illustrating on an interior design project with Electric Blue Interiors. My role on this project was illustrating wallpaper graphics and a company logo for Work Smart; an office space, based on the top floor of Broadstone Mill. I was thrilled to work on this project, I enjoyed highlighting the building’s key features and unique style in both the logo and wallpaper.

PITCH & DEVELOPMENT

To get started, I visited the Mill with Jennie Rowe; the interior designer on this renovation. While I was here, I explored the top floor and snapped as many photos as possible for inspiration. During this stage, I refered back to the material proposed to Broadstone Mill; reviewing the style, colour and composition that was pitched. My public space illustrations and draft visual of the Mill were well recieved, therefore I was able to focus on the composition of my mock up, with the same bright, clean quality of my public space illustrations.

My style and colours usually channel lots of warmth, terracotta tones and open space, I always enjoy bringing in elements of light. Those who know my work, will be familiar with my feature circles, I feel this is a clever way of drawing the eye to the centre of an artwork.

GRAPHIC WALLPAPER ILLUSTRATION

(BROADSTONE MILL, REDDISH, STOCKPORT – TOP FLOOR)

I am beyond thrilled to see this up, it took a lot of refining and perfecting to ensure this was flawless in full size (800x200cm). It was a fantastic project and even better to see it up in full glory. A huge thank you to Electric Blue Interiors and Broadstone Mill for involving me on this exciting revamp.

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WELLBEING WALKS PROJECT

This project has progressed immensely over the last few weeks. I have spent a lot of time evolving the design style and producing a huge body of work to propel exploration. To manage my work, I divided the project into three design challenges: cover, map and page design. I’ve been bouncing between these, referencing my planning, colour pallets and visual boards.

I discussed in-depth details with the Thrive Manchester program directors in advance; noted points on how the booklet would fold and read e.g., landmark symbols, legend, route colours, etc. The design side has been freeing, generating my inspired visions while implementing suggestions and preferences from directors, it has been a very smooth collaboration.

FINALISING THE WINNING DESIGN

I have updated project managers/partners during design development. Once we were happy with a cover, I played with design potential by introducing alternative colours, clothing and fonts. I then moved onto furthering depth and detail, adding sun beams, rivers, drawing on outdoors, nature and wellbeing. I wanted the visuals and colours for the map and pages to extend through each aspect of the booklet; the fun challenge was finding the best balance of colours and composition. Producing this project using Adobe Illustrator provided many solutions and eased development exploration e.g., ability to freehand vector visuals directly onto art boards, easily alter pantones/pallets, introduce temporary artboards for comparrision. This in hand with Adobe Photoshop has made my design approach much more professional and stress free.

PROTOTYPE PREVIEW

(Before & after development)

Stay tuned for updates on map and page development!