Holly Dennis

Hello, I’m Holly Dennis, a Graphic Designer living in London. I graduated from UWE in 2014. I currently work as a designer at Conran Design Group in Kings Cross.

Conran works across many areas such as packaging, reporting, branding and digital. I love working across a range of areas but have a passion for branding. I started off my career after graduating by interning at the Design Council. It was a great experience and I learnt a lot about design thinking and how it can be applied to so many areas such as the built environment, business and public services. I then moved on to work at an agency called Overture, who focus on branding for professional services. I learnt a huge amount about branding and developing a conceptual thought process behind every project.

Alongside my career I’ve always looked at improving my technical skills in digital and 3D rendering. I create passion projects on the side that exercise a bit more of my creativity. In uni you get open briefs, which is not always going to happen in paid work and its important to keep creating work that tests you in different ways. In 2018 I submitted some of my personal projects to Secret 7″ , it was then exhibited alongside artists such as Anish Kapoor and Jake and Dinos Champan, and auctioned off for charity.

https://secret-7.com/gallery/600

https://hollydennisdesign.com/

https://www.instagram.com/hollydennisdesign

Fanny Wacklin Nilsson

Hej, [hello in Swedish] my name is Fanny Wacklin Nilsson, I graduated from UWE in 2013, and moved shortly after to London working in agencies as a graphic designer, mainly within the the arts and culture sector. Now I work as a digital designer at the branding agency Essen International in Stockholm.

During my time in London I worked on a variety of editorial and branding projects, which triggered my interest for digital, as I learned more of its great potential, and noticed an increasing demand for it within the design community. It resulted in me moving back to my native Stockholm for further studies at the digitally focused school Hyper Island.

Since graduating in 2016 I have been working as a digital designer, focusing on apps, websites as well as other digital applications and services. I enjoy the most when working in multi-disciplinary teams, developing ideas and crafting concepts with my colleagues and the clients. Success for me is when I transform insights into solutions that fit people’s needs and behaviours. I have however not lost the love for print, so to satisfy that outlet I freelance as the designer of a Nordic poetry magazine, published and distributed in Scandinavia.

You can see more of my work here: http://fannywnilsson.com/

Trystan Thompson

Trystan was a graduate of UWE Bristol Graphic Design in 2015. Since then he has worked as a designer for Intercity, a graphic design studio based in both Bristol and Plymouth.

His work encompasses many disciplines, including web design and animation, to editorial and branding.

He has worked with clients including: Nike, Tate, Laurence King Publishing, Amazon, Disney, Plymouth University & Heathrow.

 

Rebecca Penmore

Rebecca Penmore is a graphic designer based in London. She graduated from UWE in 2012, before moving to London to join Harry Pearce’s team at Pentagram. Whilst at Pentagram she spent several years working with and learning from many of the leading figures in the design and arts community. Rebecca left Pentagram at the end of 2016 and set up independently.

Working from her studio in Deptford, Rebecca’s approach to design is rooted in research, conceptual exploration and a love of colour. Partnering with a diverse range of clients and collaborators, she is passionate about building lasting and meaningful relationships with like-minded people. Spanning a broad range of subject matter, projects are united by the philosophy that intelligent design has the power to delight, inspire, and enrich society. Her work balances detail and clarity, with warmth and intuition. Current clients include The Royal Academy of Arts, Elephant Healthcare, The RSA and Waitrose.

Alongside her everyday studio practice, Rebecca is part of Eight Years, a research platform co-founded with best-friend and fellow UWE alumni Abbie Vickress. Through workshops, zine-making and experimental interventions, they explore how design can be used for social action.

@rebeccapenmore

William Richardson

I am a London-based freelance graphic designer who produces conceptual, intuitive and refined creative work. I’ve led on projects across multiple disciplines, producing brand identities, packaging, websites and motion graphics.

Since 2014, I have worked with a number of studios, both full-time and freelance—such as DesignStudio, Pentagram and Daniel Eatock (at Fearlessly Frank). I have also lectured on Fashion Communication at Middlesex University.

The projects I produced over the last few years, can be found on my website.

http://williamrichardson.co.uk/

Oliver Gabe & Ashley Kirby – Focus Group

“Illiterate scum” – The Observer

Oli and Ash began working together during their time on the course. Bonding over a general lack of fundamental Graphic Design skills they decided that by combining their efforts they would have a better chance of ending up with something half decent. These efforts have continued and since graduating in 2015 they have worked as a team at an agency called Kesselskramer and on their own practice Focus Group (it was called One & A Half Studio but this is the new name.)

Their Graphic Design practice helps to fund their true passion in life, bodybuilding. The pair have dedicated hundreds of hours, into improving the sheer mass of their bodies, lifting weights sometimes up to three times a day. They adhere to a very strict diet that they have devised themselves, eating nothing but boiled celery, powdered meat compound and room temperature water. The results have been astonishing (Oliver, 1-rep max bench 200kg) (Ashley, 1-rep max bench 1500kg) with the pair aiming for their first professional competition in spring 2020.

I feel healthier…




The Queen – Karma Cola




Alexander Ward

After graduating UWE I interned for four months at a small marketing agency in London, before being brought on permanently as a Junior Designer. After a stint at another small agency, and two years in London, I caught the travel bug and decided to explore opportunities overseas.

I’ve been working at Ogilvy Sydney as a Designer for almost 2 and a half years now! My specialties have changed in that time, originally brought onboard with a predominantly print and illustration focus, but with knowledge of digital display. Now I’ve found my place in art direction and have been fortunate enough to lead some stellar projects – in 2018, a copywriter and I lead the product relaunch of American Express Platinum for Australia, I directed a fashion photoshoot for H&M which became out of homes in Australia’s Westfield shopping centres, I developed the typography for the logo of the Australian Space Agency, and I illustrated a wall mural for KFC in one of the most bustling parts of Melbourne. We’ve got some exciting projects on the horizon too, so watch this space!

http://www.alexanderjward.com/