I am the director of Paper Rhino, a creative co-op specialising in illustration, art, typography, animation and design. At Paper Rhino we are passionate about our disciplines and equally as passionate about working in a socially responsible way. We started Paper Rhino in 2011 so we could provide affordable, fair services to ethically-conscious organisations, small companies, NGO’s and charities. We are a highly creative team that are bordering on the obsessive when it comes to our individual skills. We are passionate in our belief that we can make the world a more beautiful place. Please take a few moments to have a look at our work and if you like what you see, get in touch – we’d love to hear from you.
Projects
- Animations for poet Mark GristA series of animations created for the multi-award-winning poet, rapper, storyteller & children’s author Mark Grist (https://www.markgrist.com/). I created these animations from the initial concepts/storyboards to final animation and sound mixing. Tools used: Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects
- Woodland Trust animationAnimation produced for The Woodland Trust to promote a campaign for the planting of 64 million trees by 2025. The UK has one of the lowest tree cover rates in Europe, just 13% compared to a European average of 37%. The Trust asked us to create an animation that would help spread the word about their ambitious campaign and free seed packs.
- It’s Mark Grist - Music VideoI designed and animated this crazy music video for Mark Grist to promote his mixtape project "Mark can't Rap". Here's what Mark had to say about the project: "Here's a snippet from my new music video for 'It's Mark Grist.' Paper Rhino did an amazing job on the animation. I wanted to rhyme with my name as much as possible and see how many different versions of myself it would create. It got weird pretty quickly though..."
Projects credited in
- My Lincoln RoadWorking in collaboration with Collusion and as part of a group of local artists, we developed branding, story cards, an interactive map, t-shirts and patterns to accompany a music trail event along Lincoln Road Peterborough. We also collaborated to design and build wifi-enabled lanterns for the businesses on the trail, each featuring a bespoke pattern created to represent them and celebrate local diversity,
- Food illustrations for Unicorn GroceryA new site and over a hundred illustrated ingredients, created for the amazing Unicorn Grocery Manchester www.unicorn-grocery.coop. We also trained Unicorn staff in Adobe InDesign and set up a newsletter template for them so that they could self-publish to communicate with their valuable customers every month.
- Posters, custom font and online exhibitionPromotion design for 'What are the consequences - a celebration of drawing and talking’ a project by Metal Culture Peterborough and artist Kate Genever. Over 5 months, hundreds of women met up in person and via video call to get to know each other whilst drawing. We designed a typeface from Metal's handwriting and used it as the main graphic in promo materials for the project; a flyer, posters and banner featuring provocative questions and a 'poster within a poster' look. We developed a powerful
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