About me
My name is Rowan. As a post-graduate designer from IADT, strong graphic elements are very much an integral part of my work, whether it’s printed image, digital design or motion graphics. I’m a humorous person and an illustrator at heart, and I enjoy finding new ways to communicate the right tone and message in my process. Aside from that, custom typography is also a discipline I’ve more recently taken an interest in. I readily enjoy both collaborative and independent projects, and learning new ways of working and making things is a significant interest of mine, so I’d like to consider myself quite adaptable when it comes to choice of medium.
My main strengths as a designer would be my eagerness to try new ways of working, be that regarding different visual styles, work-pace, etc, and I adapt well to new working environments. I’m also very visually-inclined, and am somewhat of a perfectionist when it comes to creating imagery regardless of medium.
Projects
- Higher Health — A Cult Awareness CampaignI’ve been interested in the idea of ‘the cult-brand’ for a long time, and particularly within the last half-year or so, there’s been more and more articles being released regarding what they’re really like behind their outward personas, such as the collective obsession over SoulCycle’s instructors, or the various lawsuits surrounding some of Goop’s more physically harmful merchandise. I wanted to create a space where all this information is collected and made readily accessible to as to inform p
- The Vaccine Issue — ISTD 2021 SubmissionThe ISTD, otherwise known as the International Society of Typographic Designers, is a professional body run by and for typographers and graphic designers. Every year they put together a selection of titles for applicants to choose from and develop a typographic piece for, and this year I chose the title 'Putting Things in Order,' a brief focusing on the ability to categorise items, people, or data, etc. For the Putting Things in Order brief, I opted to focus my subject matter to the vaccine rac
- Dreamcatchr - An Opera by Lily AkermanFor this project, I was asked by RIAM to create a live poster and print deliverables, such as static poster, program booklet, etc, for their upcoming Opera, named 'Dreamcatchr.' In the script, the protagonist, Jane, undergoes a loss of sanity as she develops the coding for an app that can help you relive dreams, so there was naturally an inclination to use this counterplay between dreams and technology in the imagery I made for the project deliverables. I was interested in trying out stop-motion
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