Category: Alumni

Liam Roberts

Towards the end of my 3rd year at UWE, a branding agency contacted the university as they were looking for a Junior Designer to join their team. I was very lucky to have been given the opportunity and after a couple of weeks interning I was offered a full time position. It was a steep learning curve as there were only five of us in the studio I had to learn a lot, fast. I spent two years working the agency and fast realised that it was better to be a big fish in a small pond, as I got a lot experience behind me quickly and this allowed me to move onto another role with confidence.

I moved to an agency which offered a wider spectrum of design solutions in order to broaden my skills and add a little variety into the work I was doing. Working at the agency I have gone on to be a Senior Designer/Art director. One thing that has always been important to me is that I continue to learn and I’ve gone on to complete courses in video direction, animation, interior design and learning to code in several languages. And, because of the variety of skills I’ve accumulated my job is now incredibly varied from day to day and I believe that’s what’s keeps me fresh and an important member of the team.

www.liamrobertsdesign.co.uk

Olivia Bull

I graduated from the course in the summer of 2017, a couple days after, I started an internship at City ID. I’m now just over 18 months into my design career and I’m working on some exciting projects in the UK, including Edinburgh, London and Bristol, and in the US, San Francisco and New York. 

I first heard about City ID when two of their designers came into uni for a talk in my second year – which funnily enough I’ll be doing this week! The travelling aspect was something that really drew me to City ID – I didn’t realise you could visit so many cool places with a design job! I always loved hearing professionals talk about their work and journey from university, it was also a great way to make contacts and prepare for the outside world.

City ID are a multi-disciplinary creative studio based in Bristol that primarily design maps, transit systems and wayfinding strategies and solutions for cities, universities, museums and airports. Everything we do is user-centred – connecting people to a place, aiming to make that place feel more welcoming and easier to use. We often work collaboratively with well respected design studios and type designers such as Pentagram and Dalton Maag – which is always really inspiring.

Other projects involve strategic thinking and planning – understanding users and their movement through a place. This involves site visits, surveying and observation to create and design innovative concepts and outputs. It’s great to work on a range of different projects that all require different processes – I learn something new everyday.

If you’d like to know about some of the projects I’ve worked on in more detail, please feel free to drop me an email at: olivia.bull@cityid.com

You can also visit our website at:

Tom Lane – Ginger Monkey

Tom Lane – AKA Ginger Monkey – a UWE graduate, is an independent graphic designer currently based in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Specialising in bespoke lettering, branding, illustration and typography, his portfolio includes everything from packaging and identity work for luxury start-ups through to assisting global brands with major high-impact campaigns.

Ginger Monkey crafts elegant lettering, branding and illustrations for clients from global organisations right through to boutique challenger brands. Whether managing the entire project directly or working as part of a wider agency team, he specialises in honing a premium, authentic look and feel for packaging and identity projects across luxury sectors such as beverages, sports and leisure, and clothing.

Tom’s clients include:

Nike Air Jordan Sony Ericsson Post Office BT Coca-Cola Mercedes-Benz Miller Umbro BMW Sainsbury’s Waitrose Bicycle Heston Blumenthal Ogilvy Paris Iris Ignited Inferno BETC Euroscg Brand Me Ten United Taxi Studio Uber Agency Orion books Bloomsbury publishing Granta books 375

Book’s featuring Tom;s work:

Lürzer’s Archive – 200 Best Packaging Design Worldwide 2015/16 Communication Arts 2015 Typography Annual Lettering – Drawing Letters By Carolina Amell Drawing Type: An Introduction to Illustrating Letterforms by Alex Fowkes Typography Sketchbooks by Steven Heller New Ornamental Type by Steven Heller AOI images 33 by The AOI Font By Tamye Riggs The Big Book of Contemporary Illustration by Martin Dawber The Book of Inspiration by Computer Arts YCN Student Booklet

https://gingermonkeydesign.com/

Yasseen Faik

Yasseen Faik is a London based graphic and type designer, working at the cross-section of design, art, music and fashion.

Yasseen graduated from UWE in 2014. Between 2015-2016 he worked as lead designer at Crack Magazine (Bristol) along side creative dir. Alfie Allen, and in 2017 worked as a designer at the TATE design studio (London).

In 2017 Yasseen also held an exhibition at the KK Outlet (Hoxton Square, RIP) Titled ‘For Iraq and Syria’ A poster based collaborative project with Grey Jam Press.

2018 saw Yasseen launch is own freelance practice (Studio Yasseen Faik) and has worked with a range of music and culture based clients such as Breaks, Nike, Levis, Champion, Boiler Room, Oval Space, NTS and Critical Records. Outside of his profession practice,

Yasseen has a keen interest in music, screen printing and analogue photography, all which play a part in shaping his overall creative output.

https://www.instagram.com/yasseen_faik

Erik Winterburn

After completing the junior fellowship year in Bristol, working closely with both staff and students on the Graphic Design course, I’ve moved back up north. Since then, I’ve been working with design studios and engaging in self-initiated projects.

In 2017, my poster was shortlisted for the Graphic Design Festival Scotland International Poster Competition. My design actually derived from content that I had gathered in my time in Bristol, a complete transcription of Germany v England commentary at the 2010 World Cup. With this work, I was interested in intonation and emphasis with spoken word and the process of ‘ekphrasis’- taking something visual and transforming it into words. The selected works were exhibited in The Lighthouse, Glasgow.

I’m now working with Field (https://field.studio/) in Sheffield, and have been since September 2017. Field specialise in print and spatial design. I work closely with fellow UWE graduate Jake Goodall day-in day-out, creating a wide range of different media, everything from large-scale print projects for local education institutions, to exhibition identities and wayfinding systems.

I’ve recently worked with the Automatic Systems and Control Engineering (ACSE) department of the University of Sheffield. I created two publications which celebrated their 50th anniversary, using archival imagery and diagrams of primitive robotics.

http://www.erikwinterburn.co.uk/

Ben Mottershead

Hey, I’m Ben! I’m a Multi-disciplinary Designer living in London. By day I work as a designer in a design studio called ‘Angel London’ within the heart of Shoreditch, London working on projects for Coke, Jack Daniels, Cartoon Network etc. However, by night I work across a whole range of passion & freelance projects covering motion & animation, branding, print, editorial, illustration & digital, for a broad demographic of clients.

I started off my career after graduating at the design studio ‘onedotzero’ where I worked on an array of projects. Most notably the Nike World Basketball Festival. Afterwards I moved into the motion design an animation industry at an agency called ‘Swhype’ (Pronounced Swipe) where I worked my way up into a senior position conceptualising and creating work for companies such as John Lewis, The White Company and the social media platform ‘Vero’.

In my own time I’ve co-founded a part time studio called Matter No Matter creating work for non-profits, charities and causes which raise positive awareness around issues in the world. This includes animation work for the mens mental health charity C.A.L.M (Campaign Against Living Miserably), ‘City Harvest’ who aims to reduce foot wastage around the world, ‘Unpackaged’, a start up which is trying to reduce plastic packaging and consumption and our own self initiated projects, most recently we produced our own short film on a tiny budget of £70, which attempts to bring attention to anti gun legislation within the US.

Along side this I also help to run a 17,000 member online community called ‘The Designers League’, which acts as a safe environment for creatives of all abilities to showcase their work, learn, receive feedback and collaborate. Make sure to join! We’re always looking to help creatives out however we can regardless of what stage they are at in their career, or design journey. If you ever need advice, or just want to meet for a tea, coffee, beer or a game of table tennis then get in touch.

www.instagram.com/matter_nomatter

www.bendesigns.co

https://www.angellondon.co.uk/

Oliver Sin

Oliver Sin is a freelance director, animator and illustrator currently plying his trade in Cheltenham. Since leaving UWE, he joined a digital agency for 3 years as a creative designer. After 3 years at the agency, he leaped into the world of freelance to focus on an animation/motion design career path. Since then he has worked with a variety of notable clients such as AirBnb, IBM, eBay and Samsung to name a few, creating. He also on the panel of judges for the Motion Awards (www.motionawards.com).




You can find out more about Oliver and his work here;

www.oliversin.com

www.instagram.com/oliversinyeah

www.twitter.com/oliversin