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NATHAN BENTLEY

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Highgate Festival 2023

Tools

Adobe Indesign

Description

Urgent freelance work on Highgate Festival’s programme and poster updating and resizing from previous year’s artwork. Mostly production/typesetting with new copy for 2023 and adapting the same illustrations used by the previous designer.

01/ 1 x A3 poster for upcoming Highgate Festival 2023 in June. A modified poster from 2022 poster with new information.

02/ A 2023 programme using the same brand and illustrations from 2022 version. This is resized to A5 with 8 pages and 3 folds. Before it was A3 folded two-ways to A5.

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Highgate Society Posters

Tools
Adobe Indesign
Adobe Illustrator
Procreate

Description

Branded Highgate Society Posters

01/ 3 x A0 posters for upcoming Highgate Society’s stall in Fair in the Square 2023 in June.

02/ A smaller poster to go with Highgate Society’s stall for a litter picking challenge.

03/ Poster and social media post for a quiz event in April 2023.

04/ Carols poster for Christmas 2022. The Harington Scheme collected £1,320 on the night and attracted new younger crowds.

Sizes
Print – A3, A4, A5
Digital – 1:1

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The Pattern Challenge

Tools:
Procreate
Adobe Illustrator

The pattern challenge was organised by Melanie Johnsson (#thepatternchallengebymel on instagram) during February 2023.

It was fun to discover and explore this for first time. I started the challenge with Procreate and sometimes used Adobe Illustrator on some themes. We had to create our own limited palette.

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Adobe Illustrator Illustrations

Tool
Adobe Illustrator

Description
Fun illustration projects using Adobe Illustrator (Ai). All shapes are created by me.

01/ Garden tools/equipments - Illustrations in jpegs for a local gardening team to add in their word documents and their social media.

02/ Fungi collection.

03/ Alphabets A to Z.

04/ Ocean elements.

05/ Flower poster design as a large poster.

06/ Flower designs for greeting cards with typography.

07/ Snowmen/festive/winter scene.

08/ Flowers in pixels.

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Council flier

Tools
Adobe Indesign
Adobe Illustrator

Description
This is a mock project showing my version of the leaflet with my own icons and graph. Text and data are extracted from current version. A demonstration showing my style with another’s company brand.

Size
A5 four-page

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Themed photography

My themed photographs for Highbury Photography Club’s weekly challenges. A member of this group since 2020.

I also exercise my typography skills to reflect each theme.

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social media

01/ A collection of quotes on design designed to use on Instagram. Self initiated.

02/ Image template created for social media posts in 3 frames. Self initiated.

03/ Seamless collection of photos as montage using 4x jpegs on a post. Self initiated. An useful technique to stand out amongst other posts in feed.

04/ Potential ideas in using Photoshop and Procreate.

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3X3 Surface Design Challenge

Tools
Procreate and Adobe Illustrator

Description
During February/March 2023, a social 3x3 design challenge was organised by Shannon @SketchDesignRepeat on Instagram and Facebook. Her weekly prompts are ‘Get Frosty’, ‘Nice To Sea You’ and ‘Fungi Forest’. This allow me to brainstorm and sketch out snowmen, ocean creatures and mushrooms. Here are my ideas. It was a great exercise for three weeks to explore potential patterns along with illustrations.

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Magazine Article

Tool
Adobe Indesign
Adobe Illustrator

Description
A ‘design challenge’ project to create an article about access to mental health during covid. The brief is to develop a two-page article spread for a magazine with an illustration to reflect supplied headline and provide infographic using supplied data.

2 x A4 size.

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Animation experiments

Tools
Adobe After Effects (Ae)
Adobe Animate (An)

Description
Project exercises using Adobe After Effects and Adobe Animate. All shapes/icons are created by me. Please note these are saved as gifs for this platform and quality will be affected.

These are also viewable at https://vimeo.com/user168269511

01/ Promo ad for my Etsy store (Ae)

02/ Circles with bounce effect (An)

03/ My logo animated (Ae) - focus on shapes/movements

04/ Mock Animation with a bee in a spring sale banner (Ae) - using path for movement.

05/ Mock ad for job hire for social media (Ae) - using logo, copy, and image and shapes.

06/ Experiment with a video using layers/speed/movements (Ae)

07/ IPM filler ad - Testing an old ad and animate it. (Ae)

08/ Bugs drawings - video edit exercise on after effect using a clip and intro . Illustrated by me with Procreate. (Ae)

09/ 60% - Simple ad to demonstrate shape movements and colour changes.

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Procreate Illustrations

Illustrations using Procreate, iPencil and iPad.

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Logo

Tool
Adobe Illustrator
After Effects

Description
Ideas and developments work on a personal logo. Plus a short demo with After Effects to animate the logo.

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Diagrams

Tool
Adobe Illustrator

Description
Diagram examples converted into a matching house style using font Elizeth and limited colours.

First image display the old charts to restyle from.

01/ Map

02/ Bar Chart

03/ Spider Diagram

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Billboard

Tool
Adobe Indesign
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Procreate

Description
A self-initiated project on designing a large poster. Background image was digitally created with Procreate. Text was copied from an existing poster but rearranged. Please note this is a MOCK project.

Size
6 Sheets - 180cm x 120cm

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Paintings

Archive of paintings by hands

1) Abstract experimental – 2023 – watercolour – colours adjusted
2) Abstract experimental – 2023 – watercolour – colours adjusted
3) Abstract splash 2018 – acrylic
4) Octopus 2019 – acrylic
5) Abstract flames 2015 – acrylic
6) Switzerland 2017 – acrylic
7) Rye’s hut 2016 – acrylic
8) Bottles – 2020 – mixed media

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Highgate Festival 2023
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Highgate Society Posters
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The Pattern Challenge
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Adobe Illustrator Illustrations
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Council flier
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Themed photography
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social media
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3X3 Surface Design Challenge
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Magazine Article
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Animation experiments
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