Uni Work

2019//As a year group we all were offered the chance to apply for the "Penguin Book Cover Design" competition, there were three different categories to choose from and I ended us choosing the children's category and had to design a book cover to R.J Palacio's Wonder.

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2020// I decided to go for the children's book cover design again but this time the title was "Goodnight Mr. Tom"fit was a story familiar to me. 

In our final project of the year we got topics that we had to tackle and come up with a solution for, my topic was medication review and my aim was to make as many people as possible aware and persuade them to book their medication review. I did this by creating an informative booklet that could be distributed.

As our second part of our field project we had to create a graphic novel from scratch and I decided to take the approach f making an education graphic novel about raising awareness of PTSD.

We had to work as a part of a group, but not only with fellow Graphics students but students from all different art and design subjects, our goal was to create an identity and location based on a (DIS)topia, we had to design everything from the people, to the houses, to the shops and flags.

In groups we had to all think of some solutions to problems that are currently effecting our society, we as a group decided to tackle the the death penalty and made a camping to abolish it, we did this via making an online presence and a poster campaign.

I decided that out of all of the competition that we had the choice to choose between that I would opt for doing an ISTD - Significance of Numbers. I decided to play with a theme that was close to my heart and personal in the hopes to make it more unique to me.

Criticality initially sent me into a head spin I had no idea where to go and what I wanted to do. I initially remembered some examples and I knewthat I liked the way the "alternative job descriptions" worked I liked the fact that they were so obviously fake and sarcastic yet they held their own and enlightened issues within the world of work.

We thought the hard part would be the writing of our dissertation, but we were yet to come across the ideation of how we wanted to design it! I decided to conform to stereotypes in the way that my dissertation theme explore, blue for boys, pink for girls.

The most important thing to showcase in this campaign is that not all disabilities are detectable at first glance, some are invisible. This campaign is educating everyone on invisible disabilities, even those that suffer with one themselves, as even they can forget and pass judgement sometimes.

During our time on the project we heard some horrific stories of people being physically and verbally abused for using accessible toilets due to the hidden nature of their disabilities being hidden. 

They all had a right to use this space, as they had hidden disabilities.

While the people who try to ‘police’ disabled toilets sometimes 

believe they are being allies by trying to make sure facilities are 

not being abused, there is a huge misunderstanding that having 

a disability must mean having a visible physical impairment

The team and I designed new toilet signage, requested by the 

Pelican and Respond Healthcare team, that would be inclusive 

of everyone, regardless of what disability they may have. 

We also created a campaign called Let Us In — which has since 

been changed to ‘Be The Change’ suggested by our client. It’s  all about accessibility, acceptance and a community. It emphasised 

the need for change surrounding education on disabilities.