Romance of Rust and smaller RoR logos

Project details

The brief was to design a logo which would fit with the heritage of car badge design and contain an element of flair and passion involved in their work. The logo was to appear initially on business cards, but also for stickers and even engine bulkheads!

Romance of Rust business card

The client wanted a couple of different designs for his business card, so we ended up with a typographic option, spelling out explicitly what his credentials are, and a visual option, showing the client in action.

ClubCare logo design

Project details

The light blue is from the original branding of the clubhouse and I’ve combined that with a purple to make it a bit warmer and to highlight the ‘care’ pare of the name. The hand print gives an impression of hands on help, with the heart showing their motive for doing so.

Malaysian Food is Ning's first cook book

Book design Brief

Authentic, personal, individual, ‘Ning’, stylish but not pretentious, simple. These were the words Ning wanted to used to describe their book. Malaysian food is not a typical recipe book, much of the page content is devoted to the story behind Malaysian food with personal introductions from chef Norman Musa, and intervals of information on specific everyday aspects of Malaysian food, as well as information about Ning and the cookery school.

Ning, the restaurant has a very specific brand. Pink and black colour scheme, batik print, georgia typeface, all of which had to be part of the book.

A recipe spread

A text and image spread

Project details

The book was self published by Ning, so had a tight budget and a tight schedule. The main bulk of the design work was completed in a week, done in Manchester at the Ning studio.

You can buy Malaysian Food from Amazon or visit the Ning website

James Martin: my kitchen. Cover designed by HarperCollins Publishers

Book design brief

The book was handed over partially designed, so my brief was to make the current design more consistant and work with the page extent needed for the book. Then to set the book within the schedule given.

Recipe spread using reportage images

recipe spread using a recipe image with full bleed

Book covers designed by HarperCollins Publishers

Design Brief

All of these books have individual styles usually related to the person the book is based on, some can be fairly straight, others require some basic illustration to liven up the text page, most have colour plate sections, which increasingly needed to be stylised beyond a standard plate section.

Matthew Hoggards book even went as far as having a flip animation throughout of a cricket ball heading for the stumps throughout the book.

A Selections of text page, including plate sections, chapter opening spreads.