• Handrendering •

Typography and Concept art

The typography project was about designing a new formal type or font that has a good concept behind it, this font was called "maskings" where my idea was to look beneath the surface where something might be hiding. The other projects was free drawing I did for graphic portfolio work and concept art.

• Corperate Identity •

Company design and identity

This design is based on one of my first corperate branding designs I had to create for a company based in Johannesburg, the company deals with architecture, engineering, and construction on AutoCAD software to create precise 2D and 3D drawings.

• Poster •

Band music poster design

We Set Sail is the bands name and this was a project done in Adobe Illustrator where we took a look at the band and their style and changed it to our own concept around their type of music.

This project was free of any limitations and to express ourselves more.

• Label Design •

Entry level wine label design

We as students designed our choice of wine entry labels and could make up a concept or good story of our own behind it. My wine is fictional and entry level wine label where as a designer I could play more with the shape and name of the wine. The tool I used was Adobe Illustrator.

• Photo Manipulation •

Photographs and image manipulation

I designed and created two photo manipulation projects in Adobe Photoshop. The one is a woman model and changed her to have a more robotic and android look.

The second project was a animal hybrid where I took a cat's body with a wolf's face and combined the two using Photoshop.

• Book Cover •

Digital book cover design

This is my book cover designed in Adobe Photoshop where I used mostly drawing brushes and digital painting skills aswell as manipulation. Designed the cover myself, based on a original story book.

• Menu Design •

Layout and structure design

This was the first project I designed and created in Adobe InDesign. Menu layout based on any kind or type of restaurant of our choice.

• Brochure Design •

Layout and fold design

For the Planetarium of Cape Town we designed a new look and feel to their brochure and could use images and manipulation skills aswell as our own designs to create them. This brochure is a three fold brochure. I designed this in Adobe InDesign and Photoshop.

• Megazine Layout •

Layout design

We as students could choose our own megazine concepts and ideas so we could design two basic layouts for the "Rollingstone" megazine. These two layouts I designed using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.

• Packaging •

Tea design and packaging

This specific project I designed using Adobe Illustrator and InDesign. The brief was giving redesigning a tea brand with new logo identity and new package design for the tea. Here is the two designs which I designed two different layouts from the same brand with a new logo.

• Flyer Design •

Flyer layout and design freelance

The flyer was one of my first ever layout designs for when I started studying, was a freelance project for a spa and health company created in Adobe InDesign and Photoshop.

• Live Project •

Identity and branding festival design

The live project I designed was all about branding, used Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign to design everything. Up The Creek was the festival we as students designed for. The designs consists of posters, stickers, shirts, picks, CD cover design, flyer and container.

• User Interface Design •

Levi's new UI design

This was a web design and development project and my first ever user interface design I created in the beginning of 2015. We as class had to redesign the Levi's clothing store's website with new identity and concept. These designs showcases mobile first, tablet, and then laptop with desktop.

• Digital Publishing •

Digital Megazine and layout design

My first digital publishing project was to create a digital megazine layout with articles. My megazine design was strong on digital manipulation. Tools and software was Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. As students we used Adobe InDesign to create the layout and the publishing.

• Portfolio Website •

First portfolio ui design and web development

I wanted to stay with my portfolio design concept last year, where I did drawings and created a “story book like” feel and style.
The main reason for that is the fact that it is different to new and modern website designs and does show a creative side of executing this in a clean, white and neat way.

My general idea of this design was to keep good open space and very clean and neat, nothing is too busy or even “boring” in this website. The UI-designs are different from the actual website because some of the elements on the designs itself did not bring justice to my website like I thought it would. I did not change my UI-designs, to show what I actually wanted before the changes.

Game of Thrones
• George R.R. Martin •

Responsive and redesign personal website

Brief explained that students need to find a website online that we would like to redesign and make responsive for tablet, mobile and still also have desktop version. The designs are the first to show here where we designed four pages and from four pages, two needed to be responsive. I took the old George R.R. Martin website and redesigned it to old but modern style of today.

• Red Riding Hood •

Digital Publishing and ePub digital book

For this project I needed to design and create a digital book or eBook if you will for tablet and kindle where this was all about how the user will see and read the digital book and good layout design behind the project. Adobe InDesign was used for layout and some coding was involved. My book was about the Grimm brother's Red Riding Hood.

• Experimental UI Design •

JavaScript and jQuery project

This project we used JavaScript and jQuery with HTML5 and CSS to create and design a experimental user interface website where the user can either interact or visually experience a website. My project I decided to create and design my own original story that I wrote myself and give the story a online comic and manga look and feel to it. Some of the Illustrations I designed in Adobe Illustrator and created the project as a one page scroller with music to play in background.

• Online e-Commerce Shop •

Wordpress

This project we designed and used Wordpress as a base to create our own e-Commerce online shop where we could come up with new logo and identity and designs. My online shop is steampunk watches and clocks but even though it is steampunk, I kept the online shop clean and modern and easy to use. The clocks themselves are very detailed so the user can identify what they want to buy. Wordpress, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop was my tools.

• Dashboard •

Jade and Sass user experience

This project we designed and used Wordpress as a base to create our own e-Commerce online shop where we could come up with new logo and identity and designs. My online shop is steampunk watches and clocks but even though it is steampunk, I kept the online shop clean and modern and easy to use. The clocks themselves are very detailed so the user can identify what they want to buy. Wordpress, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop was my tools.

• Brush Art •

Personal designs for fun

These three projects are some of my personal work for practising in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. The first was just a poster for myself and some use of bruhes and ink on Adobe Photoshop. The second poster is touch ups and drawings with brushes also in Adobe Photoshop. The third one was abstract poster where I created some vector art with help from Adobe Illustrator and effects in Adobe Photoshop.

• Advertising •

Television advertisment and film production

Adobe Premiere Pro was used for us to film, edit and compose a original advertisement for Kleenex identity and brand. The video is composed by the students themselves and the actors are students including myself. This was a group project.

Kleenex Advertisement from Mache Cordier on Vimeo.

• Phantom of the Opera •

Title Sequence in After Effects

As students we had to design and create a title sequence for a film in Adobe After Effects. I chose to do Phantom of the Opera. The effects and sound I created myself for this concept to fit perfect with the film itself.

Phantom of the Opera title sequence from Mache Cordier on Vimeo.

• Ragnarök •

MTV top three identity project

The project started for us to pick a unique theme to showcase 3 music videos on a short string on MTV. We created a unique graphic identity for MTV, a more focussed identity for the countdown, and packaged it all together in Adobe After Effects. My concept was Ragnarök. The idea consists of many things such as, series of future events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures and even the end of times or apocalypse. My message I wanted to bring over was of that but more that the end result will always look brighter and good. We as humans would have to watch over our planet better.

Ragnarok from Mache Cordier on Vimeo.