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The Catalyst. Digital Directories


digital design, digital wayfinding, contextualisation, Staffordshire University


Benoy Branded Environments “created a wayfinding scheme for The Catalyst that reflects the ethos of the building. From a series of dynamic digital directories to signs with sleek, black metal outer shells, embellished with cut aways to reveal an internally illuminated centre, suggestive of a bright digital core”.

I was responsible for designing the digital wayfinding screens following an existing design system developed for the Catalyst building and animating them. The challenge was to make digital directories fit in the already developed wayfinding system and make the digital work in sync with the physical signage.

Yoto Player Storyboards

TV Commercial, storyboarding, digital illustration



Storyboards for new Yoto Player 3rd generation TV commercial. I really enjoyed this assignment and visualisation of the script by GoshDamn directors. ︎︎︎ Full commercial

Production company: Objekt
Directors: GoshDamn
Executive Producer: Bart Frank Producer: Tom Booth

Theatre portfolio


Creative direction, immersive theatre, scenography, typographic projection, visual identity, museum installation, poster design



Theatre of Illusion, RA, UK
Installation, motion graphics, model making

Motion piece for an immersive installation ‘Theatre of Illusion’ at Royal Academy of Art Late Event Venetian Magic. The brief was to create an immersive installation as part of RA Lates dedicated to the ‘In The Age of Giorgione’ exhibition. The installation had to evoke Venetian Renaissance time.

I created two motion pieces along with the Gothic facades of Venetian Palazzi: Palazzo Dario and Cantarini Fasan where the theatrical atmosphere of the Carnivale and Italian Commedia del’Arte unfold.

Exhibited at Royal Art Academy Lates, as part of The Age of Giorgione exhibition, London, 14 May 2016









Travesties, Rough Magic, Ireland
Print and digital collateral for theatre production

The play by Tom Stoppard ‘Travesties’ is a surreal comedy which brings together various famous personalities of twentieth century including Lenin, James Joyce and Tristan Tzara. The poster, theatre brochure, and adverts were designed at my time with Detail.Design Studio, Dublin, Ireland.






Hallucinations about a Dead Hand, Ireland
Creative direction, motion graphics, stage design, print collateral

The aspect of Fakery as a response to ISTD brief 2011 which I investigated is that of theatrical scenographic illusion. The piece staged is the work of the Surrealist Luis Bunuel, ‘Hallucinations about a Dead Hand’ (1944).

The Surrealist movement famously deals with ideas of illusion, hyperreality and dreams, and it has influenced film, writers, philosophers, musicians. This script is a short story based on visual illusion and hallucinations, with an element of horror.

I created a typographic and visual interpretation of some parts of this text, which is intended to be used as a scenography for a Dance Theatre performance. This project has been awarded the ISTD Membership.

Music: Vera Reshto (for opening titles), Aaltovaihe, Max Richter.
Choreography: Kathleen Doherty, Mermaid Theatre.





Contextualisation on stage, Mermaid Theatre, Bray, Ireland



Korniag Theatre, Belarus
Creative direction, visual identities, web design, print and digital collateral

The Korniag Theatre group had neither a permanent home or theatre company. Commissioned identity work for Korniag Theatre, print, web design, UX, UI, publication at Issuu.



Various posters

Handcrafted typography, various styles of illustration
Handcrafted illustration, etching, digital illustration

Etchings for Grid as an Utopian Form project.
 
Digital drawing
Cyrillic calligraphy

Dual Oliva DNA+

Moton design, explainer, illustration, character design





Dual commissioned Objekt to deliver an explainer for DUAL Oliva DNA+. It is a comprehensive insurance product designed to deter thieves and protect  commercial plant and machinery. I was responsible for the creation of illustrations and animations for this explainer. The characters were animated using Rubberhose.

Client: Dual
Production: Objekt