GRAPHIC DESIGNER | ILLUSTRATOR
GAMES WORKSHOP
During my time working as a Graphic Designer for Games Workshop I have been involved in designing several additional merchandise products, predominately gaming accessories such as dice, measuring tapes, dice trays, bags and gaming mats. These skills were transferred when I joined the Black Library team in 2020 and I began to produce some limited-edition merchandise items such as bookmarks, maps and Christmas merchandise.
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Throughout all these projects, I was involved in generating the specification for the product and liaising with the buying team and suppliers so that these items came to the agreed cost. I oversee the management of my own projects from briefing through to product sign-off and completion. The examples below are just a handful of some of the best-selling products that I have designed so far.
GAMING PRODUCT DESIGN
PROJECT TYPE
- Product design
- Packaging design
ROLE
Graphic Designer
TOOLS USED
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
YEAR
2017 - 2024
LUMINETH DICE
PROJECT TYPE
-Dice design
-Vector illustration
- Packaging design
ROLE
Graphic Designer
TOOLS USED
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
YEAR
2019
DESIGN BRIEF
Designing the Lumineth dice was a lot of fun as they were a brand-new faction and therefore there was no precedent of how the accompanying products should look other than to match the IP.
The brief was to create limited edition, unique dice that could be easily identifiable as Lumineth. I went back to basics and thought outside of the box of the standard 16mm x 16mm cube and challenged what a dice should do. A dice needed flat sides to land on but didn’t necessarily need to be cubed in shape. So, the tubular dice style was created, which was mainly influenced by the Lumineth scrolls and ancient relics from the IP. Working with the product designers and manufacturer’s we came to the result that was striking and effective.
It really divided fan opinion but sold out online within 20 minutes of sale and is one of the best-selling sets of dice sold by the company for a brand new faction.
OTHER DICE PRODUCTS
SISTERS OF BATTLE
OGRES
BLACK LIBRARY
CHARACTER BOOKMARKS
PROJECT TYPE
-Bookmark design
-Vector illustration
- Packaging design
ROLE
Graphic Designer
TOOLS USED
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
YEAR
2020-2023
DESIGN BRIEF
Every so often, Black Library will release limited edition character specific bookmarks to accompany popular releases. The main aim with creating character bookmarks is to design a bookmark that can be easily identified with the character without necessarily naming it. Uriel Ventris has a distinctive colour palette and Ultramarine aesthetic. The final product was an antique silver metal top piece with a 4 colour enamel infill. This particular product sold well with the overall release of the miniature.
OTHER BOOKMARKS
GAMES WORKSHOP
BEASTGRAVE GAMING ACCESSORIES
PROJECT TYPE
-Dice design
-Vector illustration
- Packaging design
ROLE
Graphic Designer
TOOLS USED
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
YEAR
2019
DESIGN BRIEF
Working collaboratively with the wider studio, I was given the opportunity to design some gaming accessories to accompany the box game. These accessories included faction specific dice, a gaming mat, playing card box packaging and a hobby carry case to carry miniatures. The aim for these products was to be seen as a complimentary set of products that can be purchased along with the box game.
