George Charlton

I thought I'd share some of my most recent uni work to keep the blog warmed up and active.
The idea behind my project is political communication through design - I'm playing around with different ideas but here is one of them. An illustration publication containing an illustrated essay i wrote titled "The Red/Green Argument" which discusses the connection between global capitalism and climate change. I also snuck in a few Adventure Time references into the images.

Sorry about the bad photos - I took them with an iphone and lit them up with a bedside lamp! What're your thoughts? I'm planning on trying out these further adjustments - using a page that isn't a square to stop it from looking like an album cover and trying it on thinner, cheaper or recycled paper, in consideration of having a run of them made.


typefaces used are Intro for the cover, a new awesome display font available free from fontfabric. It might just be the honey moon period, but it's matching my affections for RNBo2 recently.
Calluna, my new favourite serif, from the same guy who did the Museo typefaces, was used for the body. The regular weight is free online, along with a short article from the designer explaining how he went about making it and explaining some off its nice little features and quirks like the little indents above/below the right hand serifs. I was shown Calluna by a friend who urns the previously discussed Axis Graphic Design.

The margins are not deliberately ridiculous, the double sided print function on the printers in our uni studio seems to offset the center of the page.

Axis Graphic Design