Stephen Pappas

Stephen Pappas

Graphic DesignerLondon, United Kingdom
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Stephen Pappas

Stephen Pappas

Graphic DesignerLondon, United Kingdom
About me
Graphic designer with a history in architecture who is confident in editorial design, branding and typography. Excels through critical feedback and collaboration with an adaptable approach. Key skills involve well-grounded conceptual ideas informed by thorough experimentation. High-quality analytical drawings and layouts with architectural precision across all mediums. Other design methods include sketches and on-site research fuelled by an intellectual curiosity for art, music and nature.
Projects
  • Powerbox Brochures
    Powerbox BrochuresThe brief was to create striking Powerbox brochures for Lake Parime that could be handed out at conferences. Powerbox, a portable data centre, hosts high-performance computing hardware that draws clean curtailed energy detached from the grid. A key feature of the brochure is the thick sandpaper-like blue cover, paying homage to Powerbox’s industrial setting. This also gives the brochure a memorable, haptic quality which proved successful to clients. To communicate the sales point, the busin
  • Building (ビルディング)
    Building (ビルディング)‘Building’. A modern take on hanging scrolls in Japanese typography using architectural graphics and rigid geometry to create bespoke lettering, representing the word ビルディング meaning building.
  • Colours of the English Premier League
    Colours of the English Premier LeagueMy project involved an information graphic poster representing all the fixtures in the English Football Premier League season for the year 2020/2021. The pattern was determined by taking each team’s club colour and pairing them together depending on who they were playing that round. I did this until every team had played each other which gave me a set of paired colours. The result was a unique predefined pattern which can be expanded and continued for future seasons. The posters could also re
  • United Nations 2030 Goals
    United Nations 2030 GoalsA typographic exploration where I was considering how the use of key words from the UN 2030 Agenda Goals could suggest semantic meaning. My concept was to first draw a list of visual drawings that symbolised each key word to the goals – this gave me a set of images. I then assigned the typographic elements of each key word to replace these images while still keeping the visual meaning clear. The outcomes of these semantic words became the focal point of the project and were displayed in a se
  • Tate B Typeface
    Tate B TypefaceFor the typeface I took inspiration from the mosaic floor pattern at the Tate Britain. I created a skeleton version from the black part of the pattern and this was used as the backbone for designing each letter. These were refined by hand through many iterations before finalising them digitally.
  • Kemistry Gallery Postcards
    Kemistry Gallery PostcardsIn this project we had to design postcards for a gallery using simple square shapes inspired by gestalt principles. My design approach involved physical experimentation and colour which was achieved by placing proportional coloured blocks on a grid driven by gestalt principles. I documented these in digital form using plans, elevation views as well as shadows. Through rotating, overlaying and scaling the digital formations I was able to achieve desired outcomes that held a strong grid and were u
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Work history
    Lake Parime logo
    Lake Parime logo
    Graphic DesignerLake Parime
    London, United KingdomFull Time
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    Architect Part 2Cambria Projects
    London, United KingdomFull Time
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Skills
  • Editorial Design
  • Spatial Design
  • Typography
  • Motion Graphics
  • Graphic Design
  • 3D Drawing
  • Architecture
  • Photography
  • Poster Design
  • Data Visualisation
Education
    London College of Communication, UAL logo
    London College of Communication, UAL logo
    Post Graduate Certificate in Design for Visual CommunicationsLondon College of Communication, UAL
     - London, United Kingdom
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    Master in ArchitectureUniversity of Witwatersrand
     - Johannesburg, South Africa
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Awards
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    Golden Key International AwardUniversity of Witwatersrand