#GreenSurge and Graphic Design for the Manchester Green Party April 11, 2015
Posted by astridjohnson in Current Affairs, Graphic Design, Politics, Portfolio.Tags: #GreenSurge, 2015, artwork, creative artwork, Design, elections, Graphic Design, Green Party, Manchester Green Party, Politics, portfolio
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A whimsical call to vote for the student population in Manchester Fallowfield.
Yes, I am part of the #GreenSurge. I joined in December 2014 and am an active member for the Manchester Green Party. Apart from the many policies I agree with, I feel I actually have a voice within the party, find that it is democratically run and meet many very engaged, awake and politically astute people.
The fact that smaller parties, a number of them leaning to the left, are shaking up this election in the UK is a good thing and locally it would be good to have a different voice in the Labour run Manchester Council.
Currently my daily physical exercise is leafleting for an hour or so in Rusholme and I must say, responses from people I meet on the street are mostly very encouraging. A lot of my time is spent with fellow activists planning leaflets and other publications and then offering my design skills. Enclosed some work I have done.
Poster and Flyer for a Mental Health Research Campaign March 31, 2013
Posted by astridjohnson in Graphic Design, Mental Health, Portfolio.Tags: 6-page flyer, artwork, bright colours, cyan, Design, DL flyer, flyer, GMW, Graphic Design, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, layout, mental health, NHS, NHS branding, North West, poster, print management, research, research campaign, six pager, taking part in research, yellow
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Attractive bright colours.
The Research and Development Department of Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMW) needed highly visible and recognisable promotional material to invite service users in the North West to access and be involved in mental health research. They provided us with the “FAIR”campaign logo and asked my design studio to develop an A3 poster and a 6-page DL flyer. They were not just very happy with the design results, but also appreciated that we were able to handle their print management for 70,000 flyers very costeffectively.
Front, back and flap of the flyer.
Inside pages of the flyer.
The DL flyer has a perforation on one side for service users to tear off the card and hand it to GMW.
Artworker Portfolio June 21, 2010
Posted by astridjohnson in Graphic Design, Portfolio.Tags: artwork, artworker, creative artwork, creative artworker, CV, Design, font, fonts, Graphic Design, Illustration, portfolio
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A spread from the little book about artworking and creative artworking.
Well, it took ages to actually sit down and attempt to put 25 years of experience as an artworker, creative artworker and graphic designer on to some page. This is the humble beginning and functions as a portfolio for the artworking bit. Instead of showing all the brochures, magazines, flyers or complex marketing pieces I am going a bit more into the process… way more interesting… and funny. The design portfolio will follow soon.
Click here to download the low res version (sorry, still 4.4 MB) of the portfolio. Have patience, it might take some time to upload in your browser: Astrid_Johnson_Artwork_Lowres.pdf
To download the high res version in all its glory: Astrid_Johnson_Artwork_Highres.pdf
And for good measure and if you are actually need some work done, here my CV.
Another sample spread from the Artworker portfolio.
Astrid Johnson 