Overview
Mark has worked as a visual communicator and printmaker for the last 18 years, helping creatives, start-ups and charities to brand and market themselves. By providing a full service of illustration, design and marketing he has been able to create impactful designs for clients big and small. His print work predominantly explores and experiments with how traditional forms of printing such as letterpress and screen printing can be combined with contemporary technologies to create new and unexpected outcomes. Fuelled but a love of understanding how we communicate and how different processes enable us to learn in different way, his MA in Visual Communication explored the creation of new typographic forms in digital and physical spaces.
Mark has lectured nationally in subjects such as Printmaking, Graphic Design and Visual Communication and he's exhibited his works nationally and internationally.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- MA Visual Communication (Solent University)
Teaching
- Acting Course Leader BA (Hons) Visual Communication at AUB
- Senior Lecturer BA (Hons) Visual Communication at AUB
- Associate Lecturer BA (Hons) Graphic Design at Solent University
- Workshop Leader for Letterpress at London Centre for Book Arts
Teaching Links
Courses
- MA Illustration (Online)
Research
Research Interests and Projects
As part of my master's, I created Odd Foundry, which aims to create tools to aid novice type designers in taking their initial steps in designing typefaces.
The tools provided on the site make use of a collection of components inspired and influenced by the recurring forms present within letters and the stylistic components of typefaces. By combining these components in different manners, the user's able to quickly generate and prototype initial letterforms that may act as inspiration for the development of further typefaces.
Awards and Prizes
Notable awards/prizes
- Four D&AD awards – Tutor
Memberships
Advance HE Membership
- Associate Fellow (AFHEA)