Positive Vibration began as a DJ and live music event hosted at the Kazimier and Kazimier Garden in Liverpool. This annual reggae appreciation meet-up soon evolved into a fully-fledged festival hosted in the Baltic Triangle, with the inaugural one scooping up the UK’s Best New Festival Award in 2016 and developing a cult following.
I oversaw the design and branding of PV from Vol. 2 onwards, utilising incredible artwork by Taj Francis in several poster designs as well as my own artwork for beer labels, tickets, infographics and on-site decals. I also shot and edited a promotional video made up of footage from the original award-winning Festival in 2016.
I first encountered Bring The Fire Project in 2013 after their performance lit up Threshold Festival. As Liverpool’s first and finest flow/fire-arts collective, they appear regularly at key events and festivals across the city, many of which I have documented for them.
As well as making videos, I designed their logo, which is usually displayed very prominently against the black hoodies they often wear at the events when not dressed in costume. The symmetrical design shows two hooded figures cradling a burst of flame, with magenta used as a feature colour for the word FIRE and the flame itself.
Based in Liverpool, Hope Street Ltd. was an organisation dedicated to the development of artists, artforms and arts in the community.
I designed printed material for Hope Street Ltd, On The Verge Festival and their Emerging Artists Programme, as well as documenting that year’s apprentices and producing a promotional video to showcase all that they had achieved.
I was fortunate enough to attend the 84th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2016 – a marathon endurance race for prototype and GT cars run once a year at Circuit de la Sarthe in France.
A long-held childhood dream of mine was to stay up for the full duration of the race; after visiting for the first time in 1993 as a 6-year-old, where I was blown away by the electricity and excitement of a full-blooded race through the night, I was finally able to realise this ambition, 23 years later. This is what I saw.