A very unexpected email arrived in the inbox earlier this year. BBC Creative and Superunion were working on a set of new idents to refresh the BBC Two channel’s identity for the first time in 20 years. Collaborating with some of the best studios and talented motion designers on the planet. Somehow, they wanted me to design and animate two of the idents. 

Each of the 16 idents is a visual signifier that will complement the type of programmes on the channel and links the eclectic channel schedule together with seamless transitions between programmes.

The music video for Persian Empire’s empire tracks 'She Got Confused' and 'He Wouldn’t Sleep' is an attempt to visualise the confusion and chaos of a breakup. The film is a road trip through the beautiful memories of a relationship building, to the slow decent into the feelings of isolation, frustration, confusion, sadness and everything in between after the breakup.

From the album ABOUT//BLANK. Limited vinyl pressing of 300 copies, go grab one. https://rx-tx.org/album/about-blank

Big thanks to PK from King Deluxe for reaching out and Gregij, Sam, Ura, for trusting me on this one.

The Radicals is an environmental, snow and surf documentary that follows four professional snowboarders and surfers connecting with four First Nations communities who are fighting to protect the land they live on across BC, Canada, 

Machine is a documentary film exploring how Artificial Intelligence is infiltrating everything from transport to military to healthcare.

Artificial Intelligence is no longer merely the realm of science fiction, there are huge questions we all need to be talking about to help steer the technology towards a world we want to live in.

Working with brand agency DAM, I was brought on board to help on design and animation for the title sequence and develop the typography animation style seen throughout the film.

Brief
Interweave Group wanted to create an opener for the 2018 AGDA Awards showcase that was happening in Melbourne. The piece needed to be reflective of the real Melbourne, the getting beer spilt on you at the Tote kind of Melbourne.

Solution
For each of the categories in the awards, we created abstract scenes referencing the craft involved. Each scene was then painstakingly painted by Dan Cookson and Cassie Stevens using black sumi ink to create a raw, unpredictable, stop-motion piece to kick off the awards night.

Solution
We created five vignettes, each representing a principle that Van O runs by. We then stripped back everything to the core message within each principle and crafted an abstract representation of it.

A collection of identity animations completed over the last 4 years at Interbrand and FutureBrand. 

COX is a design-focused contemporary architectural practice with studios located in every major Australian city and a history spanning 60 years.

At the heart of the brand that VAN O were creating was the discovery that the array of different forms and perspectives in their work are held together by one variable: the presence and absence of light. The variable that enables us to determine what we ‘see’.

My role in the identity was to create a 3D logo and then explore the effect of light, shadow and perspective through infinite takes on the COX logo forming in different shades, textures and times of the day. This was a hugely rewarding project seeing the identity come together after over a year of working on different takes on the motion of the brand.

AGDA Awards Finalist 2019

UK rapper and producer, Dirty Dike, needed an opener for his new music that could act as a stamp for all his film clips.

We created a brief dose of nostalgia, recreating the world of vintage VHS openers from the late 80s and early 90s. The feeling of walking through your local video shop and scanning through, hunting for a copy of Toy Soldiers (because your version at home was all worn out) or The Land Before Time III.

Four different openers were created so that each piece of content feels part of the same world but a unique trip to the video shop.

Brief
The brand agency, Van O, taking the place of Saffron in the Australian market, needed a bold statement that would turn heads, demand the attention of future clients and the best design talent and announce their arrival to the Australian market. 

Solution
We created five vignettes, each representing a principle that Van O runs by. We then stripped back everything to the core message within each principle and crafted an abstract representation of it.

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