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Projects

• Grief ReliefGrief relief is a kit designed to help children understand grief and make the process easier. The project was awarded Highly Commended in the 2019 Design Bridge Dog's Bollocks student awards. “I was a big fan of Grief Relief. We are in midst of mental health crisis, and Michelle has looked at the issue from a different angle. This concept is all about helping children learn to open up about their feelings from an early age, with the aim of helping to prevent issues in adulthood. It’s a really
• Case: Zine CafeCase is a conceptual zine cafe for which I created a series of informative zines that could be read by customers. I designed a sophisticated brand identity for the zines, each of which opens out to reveal a poster related to the content.
• Disclosure Bureau: Setting up a design agencyAs part of my Final Major Project, I set up my own design agency as a limited company. Disclosure Bureau specialises in branding & visual identities for wildlife, nature and ecology based projects.

Projects credited in

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  University of Huddersfield, Graphic Design & AnimationThis year, our students have rebranded a funeral parlour into a Fish and Chip shop (Fish and Crypts), they have designed smartphone apps that encourage ethical offline living in a digital age (Root), they have made the mundane marvellous by re-designing the most banal routines of our everyday lives (Translucent Design), and they have reimagined the craft of sharing stories (Folklore for Modern Folk). The diversity of Final Major Projects demonstrates the unique, in depth design processes each of
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  Pollen Bike HireThis project is a response to a D&AD brief by Vbat and Superunion that asked for a bike hire service to be branded for a city of your choice. This is where Pollen Bike Hire was born.

Work history

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Director & Graphic DesignerDisclosure Bureau
Apr 2020Stalybridge, United KingdomFull Time
Disclosure Bureau is a design agency I set up as part of my Final Major Project. The agency specialises in branding & visual identities for wildlife, nature and ecology based projects.
Design Work PlacementProject Simply
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020Manchester, United KingdomInternship

Skills

• Creative
• Abobe Illustrator
• Adobe Indesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe After Effects
• Determination
• Idea Generation

Education

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First Class Honours, BA (Hons) Graphic DesignUniversity of Huddersfield
Sep 2017Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Awards

Dog's Bollocks Student AwardDesign Bridge and Partners
My project Grief Relief was awarded Highly Commended. Check out the project on my profile.