About me

I am a recent Graphic Design graduate from Falmouth University. I'm an aspiring Designer with interests in Production, Marketing and Visual Arts. I believe design is a conversation for social change, a tool for questioning and exploring a vision, whilst communicating this to your audience in an innovative way. Email — Lydiacotway@gmail.com

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Projects

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  Guerrilla GardeningRe- branding the environmentally conscience movement, Guerrilla Gardeners. Answering the questions, how do you encourage communities to join the Guerrilla Gardeners? Guerrilla Gardeners are individuals or groups of people who take it upon themselves to improve areas they don’t own with plant life. Aiming to promote re-consideration of land ownership in order to assign a new purpose or reclaim land that is perceived to be in neglect or misused.
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  Tech Off Your ClothesTech off your clothes is an immersive event centred around the theme of combining exploratory lighting, drawing practice, live techno music and the human body. Tech off aims are to move away from the perfectionist and sometimes intimidating traditional life drawing practices in a fun and immersive way. You are encouraged to think outside the box aided within the uniquely tailored environment of music, lighting and fabrics. We challenge the traditions of life drawing.
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  The SonosynthesiserThe Sonosynthesiser harmonises far-off and forgotten soundscapes, allowing the user to search for, and listen in on snippets of sound from as far back as 1907. Using audio from the BBC SFX library, users can experience the sounds of our world and it's past, from a marriage in Mumbai to bird calls in The Blue Mountains, you never know what you will find. The Sonosynthesiser focuses on creating an immersive and tactile experience, through the use of a handheld "prop" rather than simply the app an

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Projects credited in

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  Falmouth University, BA(Hons) Graphic DesignThe course aims to produce adaptive and curious thinkers who can respond to the continually evolving societal and business needs of our contemporary world with purposeful and innovative graphic design solutions. Personal development and direction is nurtured through our studio community, so they can build the reflective, intellectual, critical and craft skills appropriate for their idea and its delivery; to provoke change and challenge the creative industry and the subject's future. https://www
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  The SonosynthesiserThe Sonosynthesiser harmonises far-off and forgotten soundscapes, allowing the user to search for, and listen in on snippets of sound from as far back as 1907. Using audio from the BBC SFX library, users can experience the sounds of our world and it's past, from a marriage in Mumbai to bird calls in The Blue Mountains, you never know what you will find. The Sonosynthesiser focuses on creating an immersive and tactile experience, through the use of a handheld "prop" rather than simply the app and

Work history

Graphic Design internEdinburgh International Festival
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019Edinburgh, United KingdomInternship

Skills

• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Indesign
• Adobe After Effects
• Motion Design

Education

(BA hons) Graphic DesignFalmouth University
Sep 2017 - Jun 2020Falmouth, United Kingdom
First Class (Hons) Dissertation title- “Simulating a reality through graphic design in film: an investigation.”

Awards

Shortlisted - Fountains of HygieneBompas & Parr
Shortlisted Category: Awareness
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The SonosynthesiserBBC New Creatives
Winner of the Prop Design Brief.