Award & Lightbox Design

I took part in this project run by Litterarti, a bristol based organization using the arts to bring people together around environmental and social issues.

 

The brief was to design 54 awards, using mostly recycled materials and a light-box for the University of Bristol’s Green Impact award ceremony. We sourced the wood for the awards from Bristol’s wood recycling project, we started with 12 particularly mucky hardwood planks, not knowing what types of wood we were dealing with.

 

I worked closely with the fabricators at Knowle west media center, they planed the wood down to reveal 12 beautiful posts full of character, with differing patterns, knots and colours of wood. We decided to go with the wood’s unique characteristics as to celebrate the difference and beauty of the nature of the material. The fingerprint designs and logos were then laser-cut into the wood and I designed the type to go on the gold name plates which were sent off to an engraver. Bits of quality leather were salvaged from the children’s scrap store and glued to the bases of the awards as a finishing touch.

 

I drew up designs for the light-box specifications it was to be made with an interchangeable front face to enable different type designs to be slotted in. I designed the type layout, deciding to go with Dinfun as it offered a playful addition to the already very functional signage type and I found that it altered well into a stencil typeface for the function of the interchangeable wooden front of the design. I designed another two of these slotting faces for use at other events.