A brief for LGBTIQ+ Health Australia (LHA) — the national peak LGBTIQ+ health organisation in Australia — creating a series of illustrations and characters to act as the visual foundation for a project called The EmployableQ Disability Employment Inclusion Toolkit.
Funded by the NDIS, the EmployableQ Toolkit is an educational resource directed at employers to promote the hiring of LGBTIQ+ people with disability, in addition to providing guidance in establishing a safe and inclusive environment.
The toolkit was presented in an evidence hearing before the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.
Deliverables
16 Illustrations, with 4 key reoccurring characters authentically representing the diversity of LGBTIQ+ people with disability.
The illustrations also needed to reflect the 4 themes of the toolkit: creating a culture of inclusion, feeling safe in the workplace , accessible recruitment and access and adjustments at work.
Video created by Missy Dempsey.
A poster I made for my partner’s birthday of us dressed up in Star Trek uniforms, holding hands while walking on Mars (I’m the baldy like Picard and he is Data). Behind us in the background are domed Martian bases and a sky full of stars in space. Engage!
A parody of the paintings The Treachery of Images and The Son of Man by Belgian surrealist René Magritte. A bowler hat sporting, apple-headed apparition emerging genie-like from a smoky pipe — “this is not an apple man” in bad French behind.
A portrait for my elder sister, who helped inspire me as a child with a book of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen.
Illustration and infographic posters developed for Corrective Services NSW, as part of a Premier’s priorities campaign to reduce adult reoffending following release from prison by 5% by 2023.
The illustration explains 4 key work streams to achieve this goal: increasing program hours for higher risk offenders, delivering better continuity of care for people with complex needs, delivering a prison environment that enables rehabilitation, transforming prisoner rehabilitation through technology.
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Hero illustration, infographic posters, icons
Flat art illustration branding for a commercial and residential. photovoltaic provider in Switzerland. All promotional assets accommodated English, French and German.
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Branding, promotional material, stationary
A series of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and microbiome infographics, social media assets and icons for SFI Health, a global pharmaceutical company. The infographics were to appear in online articles and were required to be in both English and Italian.
The brief also included a cartoon of the digestive system with friendly gut microbiome as apparently Italians love cartoons — cute!
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Editorial infographic, icons, social media assets, cartoon
A series of theatre posters and ticket designs to promote upcoming student performance art productions at Curtin University's Hayman Theatre.
The first poster is for a play called Sam and the Moon, which is about an imaginative young boy who dreams of becoming an astronaut.
The second poster is for a production based on the well-known Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, The Emperor's New Clothes.
Finally, the third poster is for a play called 80 Minutes No Interval. The play examines the 21st-century preoccupation with the need for perfection, its resultant crippling indecisiveness, and the effect on those who seek to attain it.
A series of illustrations and branding developed for a national mobility, aged care and disability equipment provider. The illustrations are of kangaroos using various types of equipment which relate to different product lines (mobility, bathroom, paediatric, lifts).
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Showroom posters, logo design, signage, vehicle decals.
A vector representation of the scary old asylum watching me from the hill – Montgomery Hall. The architectural embodiment of nightmare fuel as a small child, I can still feel it's eldritch madness clawing at my psyche. It's also home to some of the most vicious magpies around, who squawk mercilessly as they launch hate-filled swooping attacks on any unfortunate soul nearby. Trés spooky!
Dystopian-themed pop culture poster inspired by the narrative of George Orwell’s famous novel ‘1984’ published in 1949. The emotionless enforcers of authoritarian rule stand ready to punish any form of resistance, while the ever vigilant eyes of big brother scrutinise for evidence of thought-crimes and insubordination against the state.
Inspired by a quote from one of my favourite characters in one of my favourite films, the whiny yet situationally courageous Pvt. Hudson from James Cameron's sci-fi thriller Aliens — played by the brilliant Bill Paxton. So many quotable lines. Another one I like is "Stop your grin'in and drop your linen".
Design and branding of silk screened t-shirts.
Big on colour, big on love. Peace! <3
A brand mark created for the Imperial Hotel; a contemporary youth hostel and backpackers operating in central Hobart from an early 20th century hotel building of the same name. The design brief requested the same venerable aesthetics and Edwardian façade of the eponymous former building be incorporated into the brand identity and logo design of the modern hotel.
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Logo design
Minimalist interpretation Mctopia poster. Lord Ronald's ambition knows no limits.
Posters for a fake new indie movie called Mctopia, set in an alternative dystopian future. Its narrative is centred around a scenario in which corporations have replaced nation states as the dominant political entities in the world. Ronald McDonald, the ruthless synthetically grown and genetically augmented leader of the largest and most oppressive corporate regime, McDonalds, has emerged as its sole autocrat and dictator-for-life. This comes after initiating a methodical and bloody purge of all his potential and perceived rivals amongst the McDonalds ruling elite. As part of actions to consolidate his power, he is seeking to establish his own personality cult and ingratiate himself to the masses.
