Design

Graphic design


Netta's Kitchen chutney jars

Netta's Kitchen is a social enterprise in Budleigh Salterton, Devon which helps people with learning disabilities build skills and confidence through making and selling products. It is part of the Launchpad day service.

I helped to design their rebranded chutney labels.

Chutney label design with squirrel, acorns and explanatory text

Here are the initial sketches with the finished labels on the product:

Three label suggestions, one with East Devon hills, one with a squirrel on an orange background, and one with a more pink, modern look Jar of caramelised onion chutney Three chutney jars in a cardboard container


Chrysanthemum colour chart

Version 5 of a poster representing the 4,096 colours with short colour codes in the red, green and blue colour space.

Colour poster featuring 216 chrysanthemum flowers arranged into a hexagonal shape by colour. Each colour has an individual name.

View the colours in a table and compare contrast.

Version 4 was similar but had a few different colour names:

Colour poster featuring 216 chrysanthemum flowers arranged into a hexagonal shape by colour. Each colour has an individual name.

Version 3 with more generic colour names.

Older version of colour poster featuring 216 chrysanthemum flowers arranged into a hexagonal shape by colour.

Version 2 with the 4,096 colours in hexagons:

Colour chart with 216 hexagons each containing a 3D cube with more tints.

Version 1 with just the 216 "web safe" colours:

Colour chart with 216 hexagons (dark background)Colour chart with 216 hexagons (light background)


Euro 2020

It's a Euro 2020 wallchart, but it's the 1970s New York City Subway map by Massimo Vignelli (link goes to a New Yorker article).

This version was heavily influenced by the digital version by Max Roberts on tubemapcentral.com.

The content is taken from the text version available on uefa.com.

Euro 2020 wallchart resembling a subway network


Several of us previously moved from the Government Digital Service into a new team, the Central Digital and Data Office - still part of the UK Cabinet Office at the time. Here are some very unofficial suggested logos for that team.

Six geometric logos containing the letters CDDO

The last one got the most positive feedback, so here's a larger version of it in blue 😀

White CDDO logo with four concentric letters on a blue background


Little Stories

Victoria (Mrs Hick) has an Etsy shop for her embroidery, Little Stories Art. She embroiders lovely brooches, landscapes and custom pictures.

We worked on the logo together - Victoria asked for it to feel feminine, natural, flowing and adventurous.

Little Stories logo of a girl in the mountains

Evolution of the design, and logo in use:

Initial ideas exploring aquatic and stitching themes First sketches similar to final logo, variation of girl in mountains Final pencil sketch of Little Stories logo with girl in the mountains Little Stories on Etsy and Instagram

Blue/green background borrowed with thanks to 123freevectors.

Visit Little Stories Art on Etsy

Visit littlestories_art on Instagram


Imagetek redesign

I'm helping to rethink the brand identity of Imagetek, a document scanning and archiving company.

I've helped them simplify their website (first iteration now live) and updated some of the imagery.

New Imagetek logo

The new logo takes fonts and colouring from the current one, but in a cleaner, more crisp form, reflecting the business's core service of scanning.

The design went through several iterations, exploring digitisation and binary numbers, eyes, pixels, 'I's, the letters "IT" and scan lines.

First Imagetek logo sketchesFinal Imagetek logo sketches

Looking at all angles of the business, and in discussion with them, the single scan line ended up as the most simple and elegant way to encapsulate the brand.


World Cup wallcharts from 2018 and 2014

Final world cup 2018 wallchart World cup 2014 pixel wallchart


Lazarus

The logo for The Lazarus Boys, West Yorkshire's finest multigenre duo of musical Clives.

Lazarus Boys Logo


Digital shorthand

This is a suggested shorthand for taking notes on digital and design topics. The main criteria for each design is that it is easy to draw with a pencil.

Inspired by a session on sketchnoting by Dr Makayla Lewis at UX Bristol 2016.

Accessibility icon showing an arrow entering a letter A Agile icon showing a letter A shaped like a triangular arrow going around upon itself Business icon showing a person in a suit in the shape of a capital B Communication icon showing a letter C with an ear and a mouth Content icon showing a letter C containing lines of content Data icon showing a letter D containing rows of data Delivery icon showing a letter D containing burndown graph Design icon showing a letter D containing construction lines Develop icon showing a letter D containing a command prompt symbol Digital icon showing a letter D using only right angles Goal icon letter G as a path to the centre of a maze Graphic icon showing a stylised letter G Interaction icon showing a finger touching a cross in the shape of a letter i Manager icon of a person peering over shoulders Need icon of a letter N containing a pyramid Persona icon showing a letter P with a face Product icon showing a letter P with a plastic hook Quality icon showing a letter Q with a magic wand Research icon showing a letter R as the end of a set of bookshelves Service icon showing a letter S with a bow tie underneath Story icon showing a letter S in a script form Team icon showing three letter Ts embracing Test icon showing a letter T as part of a detonator Usability icon showing a play button in a letter U User icon showing a letter U as a face, containing two eyes Visual icon showing a letter V as an upturned eye


Web design

I've been putting things on the web in different formats since 1999 and enjoy making simple websites. If you would like me to help you make one then get in touch on helloyou@andrewhick dot c o and NOT this email address: yesitis@hexydesign.comm.

My web portfolio