2. My name is Kira and I am a graphic designer!
I am a multi-disciplined graphic designer,
but my strengths and passion lie in branding,
editorial design and colour theory!
Welcome to my design portfolio! Here you’ll find
a combination of my degree work from the last
three years alongside my own freelance work.
Happy scrolling xoxo
3. Client: One Thousand Cranes.
Project type: HND, Personal, Branding.
A project to develop an identity design for a self-established clothing brand called
One Thousand Cranes, including logo design, colour palette development and
implementation across digital and print media. The identity focuses around a
geometric, flat vector illustration of origami cranes, created using Illustrator, and a
seasonally rotated colour palette.
@Hello_OTC
@Hello_OTC
We are One Thousand Cranes.
Makers of t-shirts and bringers of smiles.
Come and say hello!
Search: One Thousand Cranes
@Hello_OTC
@Hello_OTC
We are One Thousand Cranes.
Makers of t-shirts and bringers of smiles.
Come and say hello!
Search: One Thousand Cranes
@Hello_OTC
@Hello_OTC
We are One Thousand Cranes.
Makers of t-shirts and bringers of smiles.
Come and say hello!
Search: One Thousand Cranes
@Hello_OTC
@Hello_OTC
We are One Thousand Cranes.
Makers of t-shirts and bringers of smiles.
Come and say hello!
Search: One Thousand Cranes
4. Client: tokyobike, London
Project type: HND, Illustrative, Print
A project to create double-sided posters that tokyobike, a cycling shop in
London, might use as window displays and promotional handouts.
Bicycle illustrations were created on Illustrator and transferred to InDesign
to build the posters. The second side of the double-sided handouts illustrated
tokyobike’s own suggested routes for cycling around London. Route illustrations
were also created on Illustrator and transferred to InDesign.
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Lantana Café
13 Charlotte Place,
W1T 1SN
020 7637 3347
Mon-Fri: 8am-6pm; Sat-Sun: 9am-5pm
BT Tower
60 Cleveland St,
W1T 4JZ
Fitzroy Square Garden
Royal Institute of British Architects
66 Portland Place,
W1B 1AD
020 7580 5533
Mon-Fri: 9:30am-5:30pm; Sat: 10am-5pm
Royal College of Physicians,
11 St Andrews Place,
NW1 4LE
The Secret Garden
Garden of St John’s Lodge,
NW1 1AD
Daily: 5am-dusk
The Albert
11 Princess Road,
NW1 8JR
020 7722 1886
Mon-Sat: 11am-11pm; Sun: 12pm-10:30pm
Melrose and Morgan
42 Gloucester Avenue,
NW1 8JD
020 7722 0011
Mon-Fri: 8am-7pm; Sat: 8am-6pm; Sun: 9am-5pm
Primrose Hill
tokyobike
tokyobike is a small, independent bicycle company founded
in 2002 in the quiet Tokyo suburb of Yanaka. The name was
derived from the design of the bikes. In the same way the
mountain bike was designed for the mountains so tokyobike
was designed for Tokyo.
Based on the concept of ‘Tokyo Slow’ the bikes are designed
to be light to ride with an emphasis on comfort over speed.
The bike is simply a way to enjoy your city, as much about
the journey as the destination.
Tuesday - Friday 11am to 7pm
Saturday & Sunday 11am to 5pm
Closed Mondays
87-89 Tabernacle Street
Shoreditch
London
EC2A 4BA
020 7251 6842 sales@tokyobike.co.uk
5. Client: Lars Müller Publishers
Project type: HND, Editorial, Typographic, Print
An editorial project to create an 84 page, A5 book with a double-sided, wrap
around cover that could also be used as a poster. This poster, built using
InDesign, pays homage to and combines two of Typografische Monatsblatter’s
cover designs from 1961 and 1987
6. Client: Freelance
Project type: HND, Branding, Self-Promotional
My own identity from 2014, across print and social media. Inspired by a love of pixel
art and 8bit gaming. The pixel art illustrations were created using Photoshop and put
together using InDesign to make a CV, custom sized business cards and banners for
social media and websites.
7. Client: Freelance
Project type: Personal, Illustrative, Print
Using Adobe Illustrator, I created these Halloween costumes for mobile
phones by creating a design to be printed, cut down and inserted into a
clear protective case for the back, and a wallpaper design for the front.
I created a series and extended them to suit both the iPhone 4 and the
iPhone 5.
8. Client: Freelance
Project type: Branding, Print.
Commission from gaming convention organisers GEEK Play to create illustrations
and business cards inspired by my own 2014 identity. Illustrations were created using
Photoshop and business cards were built using InDesign.
9. Client: Kent County Council.
Project type: Graduate, Branding, Print
My graduate project that involved branding a secondary school survival kit and
implementing that brand across a range of items to be included in the kit. The original
logo design was created using Illustrator and various stickers, postcards, badges and
other items were created using Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
10. Client: Kent County Council.
Project type: Graduate, Branding, Animation
A 90 second animation to accompany the kit, highlighting the features of the kit and
where to go for further support. Created using Illustrator and After Effects.
Available to view at vimeo.com/135871512
