EXPERIMENTS USING PAPER AS A MEDIUM
Client: SERCO - Pitch for Poster Design, London 2012
As an illustrator I don’t restrict myself to conventional media. We draw and write on paper, but what happens when we draw ‘with’ paper? Torn, shredded, cut, folded, bent, twisted, creased and rolled; its physical qualities make possible a different style of illustration where buildings, trains, trees and windows are reduced to bare essentials of their real selves. Paper - a designer’s everyday ‘staple’, has evolved from a blank canvas to a three dimensional object taking on new avatars.
The paper crafted phone receiver was an experimental cover for a telephone directory. This led to more explorations during my academic year at Camberwell College of Art. The poster design was for SERCO’s Secret London Poster in collaboration with the London Transport Museum. This was my take on the DLR route from Shadwell to Canary Wharf and the windows that I glanced on the way. Both these experiments culminated in detailed artworks that border on being a photograph, a paper sculpture, an illustration or all of the three.