Future Water Association - Reducing Leakage

This was done a few months before the pandemic started, but as I'm working for another water company later in the week, I thought I'd put it up and see how the ideas compare. 

This meeting involved stakeholders from various parts of the water industry, all coming together to talk about leaks, and what they could do to reduce this kind of waste. 

There was an expert from Denmark - who stunned the room by saying that every pipe in Denmark was mapped out, so locating a leak was much easier. Everyone agreed this would be a game changer in the UK.

 

Anatomy of a logo design

I was asked to create a logo for a local authority department, (which is the top image below). The cohort wanted to spread the word about what they do and feel that they had an identity they could amplify.

In case you're interested about process, I have also shown the iterations that went on to get to the final design, kicking off with the notes from the initial briefing call, through various colour waves in response to group feedback. 

It was truly a co-designed job in action!

 

Future Water Association - Water Dragons 2022

I was asked back for another round of this annual event. I'm hoping that Proteus's design is put into action soon. Pollution levels in England's rivers are currently very high and need monitoring, as well as more attention from the water industry.

 

Camden Conversations

This project was commissioned by Camden Council to share their story of developing a specific service, and to promote it more widely to central government and within academia. I really enjoyed this project but never blogged about it at the time so putting it up here now.

The story was told through the storyboard below, I also used all the various faces to create a logo that had multiple combinations.

The brief was to represent values of equality and an adult to adult relationship, and also represent the diverse mix of people who inhabit Camden. I used the overlapping speech bubble as a symbol of the overlapping wishes of both sides - this is especially obvious in the last image below!

COVID-19 Restrictions are ending in England

 ...but rates are still soaring in other parts of the UK, especially Scotland. How are you feeling about this?

I was asked by a local disability charity to illustrate their members' thoughts around the ending of restrictions. I think I'm more on the cautious side still, but I am glad things are slowly getting back to normal.

This is in case you're wondering about the working process: I start with a briefing call with clients about the job, what they're trying to achieve/say, who their audience is and what are the outputs that they want to use, this includes what medium (print/digital) and the size and dimensions of the image. They supply the material that they want me to illustrate usually in written form and from all of that information I suggest a format/layout like a solution to a design brief.

I then draw up a rough and then go through this on a call to make sure I'm using the right kind of imagery, so just sharing my 'roughs' below. I also ask for information about representation and usually some form of reference material so I get the right age and background of the people being drawn.

Future Vision for a Rural County

I was asked by Herefordshire council to visualise the future vision of the county - the vision statements came out of the 4 day citizen's assembly that people took part in during January 2022, while we were all still locked in our little screens on Zoom.

Lots of passionate debate and some great suggestions. Even though I'm based miles away I really could grasp the local pride people feel for the area and how much people want to protect and enhance nature and everything that's good about Herefordshire. I'm definitely going to visit soon!
 

Citizens Assembly on Climate Change

The summary findings from Herefordshire's assembly I've drawn up here, in the form of Transport, Land-Use and Buildings. Amazing how many ideas were generated and voted on over one weekend on Zoom!

There were a lot of calls for education on biodiversity, community support, and broader funding for all sorts of schemes, from retrofitting to decarbonising community transport. I really hope that as much as possible of this comes to fruition.