Printco, Melbourne, AusWhen my feature film was accepted into the Sydney Indie Film Festival was I fortunate to take the jump out of my teaching career to go to Australia initially for the festival but also to do some travelling. Out there I was employed as a graphic designer in which my role entailed responding to client briefs to design and prepare billboards for real-estate marketing campaigns.
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Gateshead College end of year student art showI have been working as a teacher of digital art for Art&Design and Computer Games courses at Gateshead College, UK. In preparation for the final art show of the year 2019 I was asked to put together a flyer to be used as part of the colleges online presence and to print to hand out to parents, industry professionals from the local area and prospective students.
I used an image of a Typographic wall mural the students worked on earlier in the year to edit and adapt to create a typographic illustrative editorial piece. |
Alba Nights - 'We Were Kings' tour posterAlba Nights are a local Sunderland recording and touring 5piece indie rock band who, following the release of their 2017 album, Soliloquies - went on a Northern UK tour. the tour was named after the single from the Album, King.
I used some of my own photography of the Sunderland coast line which included a shot of Roker Pier and lighthouse. I used colours from the sunset to develop the logo in an illustrative fashion and used smart and simplistic typography to deliver the relevant information for this editorial product. On a side note, I actually play bass on 2 of the recorded tracks on the album. |
Mark Kenny FilmAs mentioned in my bio, alongside being a graphic designer I am also developing as a filmmaker. Over the past 8 years I have involved myself in a number of short and feature films including writing and producing my own.
Here are the art covers I have created for the online and print marketing materials for each of my films which show a range of my skills in photography, illustration, typography and editorial design. More information on my film making career can be found at; |
Gamerama GameMaker 2016For this I was comissioned by Gateshead Libraries to put together an editorial flyer to hand out to their young creative members. It was for a competition to come up with a game concept.
There was a lot of written information they wanted to be included on the product, as well as a specific and limited colour scheme as it was in collaboration with Gateshead College and needed to fit within their marketing guidelines. |
Double Page Spread designsAs aprt of the evening graphic and editorial design adult course that I wrote and delivered, I passed on my skills in adobe InDesign. To do this we used a couple of films that were out or recently out at the time and I took the students through a step by step demonstration - in doing so i created these double page spreads which included each of the little tips and tricks on how to work with type and image for print publications.
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BUILD magazineThis is an old piece in my portfolio from my second year of university way back in 2009. The brief was to work with image and type to create a magazine cover for a fictional magazine - BUILD. It was uo to us what the magazine's topic was, as I have an interest in architecture and artistic engineering - I opted for features such as The Falkirk Wheel - an amazing piece of art and engineering for a rotating boat life in Falkirk Scotland.
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NARC MagazineNarc Magazine was a local arts and music monthly publication based in Tyne & Wear, UK. As part of my graphic and editorial course at University they came in and ran a competition for the front cover design of their next edition.
This was a challenging brief as the magazine was a low cost printed free magazine - as such the paper and print was very low quality with limited capabilities (this was also way back in 2007). We weren't able to use any photography or small print - and could only use a limited colour pallet of Black and pink - we could however alter the transparency. Although I did not win the competition on this occasion, elements of my design were used in future editions. |
The GuardianThis was another typographic design project from my university days way back in 2007-08. This time instead, of focusing on the digital-for-print design elements of mastheads and headlines, we had to explore other ways we could experiment with typographic design using alternative mediums, also how to make bodies of article-text more interesting.
Here I was challenged with a Guardian newspaper section with the subject of the childhood obesity crisis of 2008. I explored using photography and typography by writing on a banana and using the subtle positioning to give the form of a smile. I went on to experiment with the shapes of newspaper text columns to suit the subject of the article in a subtle way. |
Children's magazine editorial designThis was a very open uni editorial brief - we were asked to create a double page spread for a children's magazine. As I have an active interest in wildlife and the extent creatures can differ in looks, and characteristics depending on where in the world they are from - I went for a fun yet informative approach that would appeal to young children learning about the world around them.
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