Richard Thorley

Richard Thorley

Graphic DesignerStoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
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Richard Thorley

Richard Thorley

Graphic DesignerStoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
Projects
  • British Film Institute
    British Film InstituteThe brief was to design a brochure for a BFI Film Forever themed screening event. The brochure needed to represent or in fact mirror 'a John Hughes movie' The John Hughes Movie Collection - Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Sixteen Candles, Home Alone, Uncle Buck, Pretty in Pink. As John Hughes movies helped define a generation. His 'heroes' are in conflict with authority and can be classed as outsiders. My Idea was to create a brochure that showed
  • The Particular Fruit Company
    The Particular Fruit CompanyThis was a complete packaging, branding and background concept brief. The view was to create everything from scratch for a boutique packaging range. I developed a back story, and a history for the product. Creating the Company and the brand. This was centred around the research i had been doing into expensive fruit. In Japan it is custom to give fruit to people who are important to you. Apples sell for £25 each!! see http://www.sembikiya.co.jp/en/ My idea was an online high quality fruit selection and delivery service(within reason). My companies belief was that their product transcends an everyday snack or dessert. Their customers are buying into a brand. A brand that exerts quality, luxury and first class service. Once i understood the background the creation of the website and mobile app were simple, attaching itself to the target market. The packaging was not ordinary either, giving the customer a premium service for a premium product. My approach to the mobile app was for it to be simple, clean and elegant. Using graphical elements and type instead of photographs gave it this feel.
  • DO THE GREEN THING
    DO THE GREEN THINGDO THE GREEN THING brief to show awareness through the various factors that affect climate change. I chose Live a less electrical life. Come on take the Stairs. We all remember those times when we walked into a lift and were left speaking to someone we didn't want to, or had to agree to something we didn't want to do, or put up with that smell that no one would own up to. Well . . . take the stairs next time and do the right thing because it also saves a shitload of energy.
  • Noumea City Identity
    Noumea City IdentityThis was a City Tourism Branding/Identity brief. Noumea is the capital city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean. The brief explained that the city needed a new logo and branding that reflected its heritage as well as its current modern growth. The logo needed to be recognisable, have longevity and be unique. My approach was to use the cities amazing past and its cultural diversity, coupled with its current modern, cosmopolitan and westernised view. This allowed me to refine my ideas to the point where i believed it deserved its own logotype. One of my keywords for the city was Harmony, which the definition is 'an orderly or pleasing combination of elements in a whole'. My thought was to create the logotype that represented this but only using a basic circular 'O', with every other letter being built off this 'O'. As part of the rollout for this the mobile app also followed this path. The modular design shows harmony as well as allowing for the diversity in the buttons. The colour palette being quite vibrant for the destination but also a little understated. The modular theme was then rolled out across all media to give a connection throughout.
  • Massimo Vignelli
    Massimo VignelliThe brief for this project was a to produce a poster based on your appreciation of a designer for a gallery event. The designer in question was Massimo Vignelli. A designer whose philosophy was centred around the modernist movement. His approach to design made him a one of the greats, his quotes at times surpassing the man himself. My approach to this was to create a poster that represented him as much as possible or at least his style, as if he was designing it. The typeface, graphical elements, colour, layout and style all defining of how his work looked. The booklet was a continuation of this, but also listed his Tangibles and Intangibles. These were his 'rules' of graphic design that can be found in The Vignelli Canon.
  • Full Metal Jacket
    Full Metal JacketThe handmade brief required a more hands on approach to creating a movie poster. My chosen movie was Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. A film released in 1987, its storyline follows a platoon of U.S. Marines through their training and the experiences of two of the platoons marines during the Vietnam War. My feeling was that these soldiers were trained as machines and forced to fight in a war that they didn't need to be involved in. My idea was to create a model sprue of a soldier and his kit to represent this image of a Vietnam soldier, as if they were just being made on a production line without any emotion. I did this by laser-cutting acrylic from an image i created. Which i then photographed. That image was then used as the background for the movie poster and all the relating information connected to it. I used a font called Stratum, a modern futuristic looking typeface to bring the movie up-to-date, weight - black, to give it the movie title effect.
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Work history
    Graphic Designer
Skills
  • Packaging
  • Visual Arts
  • Branding
  • Print Design
  • Websites
  • Typography
  • Design
  • Logo Design
  • Excel
  • Illustrator
  • Indesign
  • Office
  • Photoshop
  • Powerpoint
  • Word
Education
    Graphic Design
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    Furniture Design
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