Origin Drawing · 2023
A personal drawing of me and my brother. GUM saw the animation built from this piece — and commissioned the FUSE cover.
GUM FUSE Cover · Cover Design · 2024
Instagram Campaign · FUSE 2024
Reflection
FUSE was the project that proved 3D skills translate directly into editorial work, and that the translation is not a compromise. The cover works because the render was designed for print from the start, not adapted to it afterward. Thinking about the composition as a page spread, with the type as structural anchors and the 3D forms as the central image, meant every decision in the render served the final printed object. The warm gradient, the scale of the GUM logotype, the way the abstract forms are lit: all of it was calibrated to what reads at A4 on newsprint, not what reads on a monitor at 100%. Being recognised by Dazed & Confused as one of five student magazines to watch confirmed that the editorial direction landed. GUM FUSE cover, 2024. Cover Design, Glasgow University Magazine.