Hackcess is a Hackathon focused on using digital fabrication and maker technologies help disabled people live more independent lives, improving accessibility through technology. 

Hacksmiths approached me to help with their branding and posters. They wanted it to be eye-catching and accessible. I focused on making the colours and fonts easier for both dyslexic and for colourblind users. 

The Hackathon will be taking place over two days on 21st - 22nd November. To find out more, click here, or to take part, click here.

These are the background graphics for a publication, specifically designed so that the reader could have a progressional feedback mechanism throughout the report. I used a low-poly design to reflect the game theme of the text in Illustrator.

To read the report, click here.

We spend most of our lives working, and for many of us our job is something we see as tedious. Workplace wellbeing is a big issue, and I aim to improve it by designing systems using gamification to engage us in our work environment. Gamification is the act of putting a game system onto a non-game context. By using games as a catalyst to improve our wellbeing in the workplace, we can achieve job satisfaction and creative collaboration beyond what we have today. 

Creating workplace games that address emotional wellbeing, physical wellbeing and personal development, I have considered a range of workplaces in order to create a compendium of games for a variety of jobs which players can choose and play.

Check out the live website at www.PlayAtWorkProject.com

FightKnight is an online and offline card game created by Kar Shui Ho. Designed to be playable in a local environment with exclusively a set of cards and dice or online with the same set of RFID cards,  using a reader and the game program. This was designed to take advantage of the digital medium to connect players across the world, while retaining the physicallty and the tactility synonymous with table top games. 

My task was to deal with the aesthetics of this game. I designed and hand-drew the card illustrations for both the physical cards and the digital cards. I also felt with the identity of the game by selecting and adjusting the fonts and background images. 

What makes things ordinary? What goes beyond the ordinary? In this brief we had to define and explore the concept of the superordinary. At first I explored object which have become so ordinary that they become superordinary, like light switches and wall plugs. These are objects that have become so ordinary that they blend into the wall and become inviable to people’s consciousness. The idea of exploring things that have gone beyond the conscious then developed into the idea of looking at unconscious gestures.

Gestures are a way in which we communicate, both aiding our speech and reflecting our body language. They are movements we do not consciously do, though when we do consciously do them, our movements become awkward and cumbersome. Without gestures, our communication becomes harder and strange to others. It is only in their absence that we notice that they are supposed to be there. After research looking at the movements and gestures in videos, I created a range of jewellery to block gestures and make you notice the unconscious movements your body makes. I also explored how gestures could be changed to change peoples behaviour and body language.

Bactoman was a collaboration with UCL students for the 2015 iGEM competition. The students wanted to create a comic to explain the science they where doing with genetic modification of bacteria to help with mental health. They wanted to make it clear and fun to read bout, so decided on a comic and a superhero to explain the science visually. 

Bactoman is an origin story of the superhero and his sidekick which aims to tell a tory by showing the reader how a mental illness, like depression, can affect a person, and then showing how the science they are doing works and can help. 

I worked with the team on their visuals of the comic itself and the main brand and logo of the superhero, working closely with one of the team with the script and drawing and colouring the comic pages themselves. 

Take a look at the finished comic on their competition website here.

To break a world record is to aspire to be the best, to take a talent you have or acquire and push yourself to the limits of this ability. This could be something exceptional such as the record breaking at the Olympic games or something weird or seemingly trivial such as the most socks sorted in one minute. And with this project, I had to break a record of my own. After looking into existing records and at my own abilities, I couldn’t find one which I felt I could do or one which I wanted to do, so I decided to create my own.

I created a new world record of attempting to create the longest doodle in length. I found that the record could be applied as a team record or a solo record, expanding the possibilities. I first focused in on the solo record to look into the details and problems of the record and how it could be made challenging, creating new rules and exploring what classifies a doodle.

Scale is a huge part of design, not only in the literal sense but also in the cultural sense. How does your designs affect the world? How does it affect the people? For this project we were to explore how architecture, in the broad sense of the word, could be designed and how it would impact the world.

Looking at our own experiences on where our moods and behaviours changed at different locations and discovered that transportation, such as trains, forced people together. Here you would expect people to interact, however the complete opposite happens and very few people interact and were extremely uncomfortable with these close quarters. We felt that if people had more space, their mood and behaviour would change, so  we redesigned the carriages for the trains. While designing it we touched upon an aspect in the trains which we both found troublesome because of our height: the bars to hold on. After discussing this, we felt that height could have more to explore with height. From there we looked into the different research into height such as working out the true average world height and looking into research such as the Incredible Shrinking Man project, scale and the golden ratio, Hans Hemmert’s Level and finally, the Ames room. The Ames room was a turning point in our designs as it gave us a way to change people’s perception of height. The Ames room works by playing with the perspective of things with the room so a person appears to grow or shrink as they move around the room. With this we looked into ideas which accommodated people’s height but also made people question their own height and question what is average. This resulted in the bus shaped as an Ames room, the cinema and plane built to accommodate peoples height and ergonomics.

The project was given by author Stephen Emmott (who leads Microsoft’s Computational Science Laboratory in Cambridge), and was based on his book 10 Billion. We were required to create new and novel ways to engage people with the ideas found within the book, exploring alternative methods to communicate, visualise and articulate massive complex systems. 

As it was a piece of science communication, we were required to find the appropriate visual and/or physical means to translate hard science into compelling narrative, using the power and uniqueness of the internet. Because the book focused on many aspects of climate change, we chose to focus on one aspect: hidden water. Hidden water is the water we use to produce things. We chose to focus on food as it is an essential commodity that has an effect on all people and we come into contact with it every day. 

We looked into meals and the hidden water comparisons between the different items of foods or drinks. We used one item of food as a base for hidden water content and kept the scale of that item 1:1, then scaled down the other items of food according to the bases hidden food content. This resulted in a radical rescaling of foods that gave striking and memorable displays. The difference of water consumption become clear and easy to comprehend at a glance. We see that meats consume a lot more water that the more water efficient fruits and vegetables. The models were a way to display this information simply, universally and make the complex numbers of hidden water easily comprehendible.

Gaming channel, Winston Biggleswade, wanted to rebrand their channel from a simple orange theme to something more interesting. They wanted their brand to have a similar style to the Monty Python animations and to be made up found images. I collaged Creative Commons images to create a theme and logo that they wanted. 

Here are some examples of some of my art and drawings. To see more, visit my Flickr account.

Here is a range of different examples of my photography. To see more, visit my Flickr account.

This brief required me to identify an opportunity to design an escape, developing material culture as a series of systems, architectures, hacked elements and tools. Here me and my group focused on the idea of escape as a game and a way of travel. We began by identifying our own definition of escape, choosing to define it in as more playful and exploratory way. We created videos of us playing simple gameified forms of escape in different locations around London. 

I felt that one of our early ideas of a game which could be transferred into different locations (such as museums) had a lot of potential so I decided to revisit it. I designed an escape-inspired game which was flexible around locations, so that the users could hijack a location and turn it into a game. After setting up the rules and game mechanics, I gathered volunteers to test out the game and created a video to document and display the concept.

This was part of my University workshops in learning different manufacturing processes such as shaping the wood through laminating, threading the ends of the metal poles for the screws and bending and cutting the plastic magazine holder. I was given the designs and building plans to build it from scratch and then built the table.