Bancroft Collaborative Look-See
I love real wood with exposed grains and knarly knots. So I was happy to work with The Bancroft Collaborative on a branding campaign. Jonathan Bancroft Colon crafts his furniture from locally sourced wood and uses complex joinery to hold it together. I used my photography and writing skills to showcase this aspect of his work. The layout of this brochure highlights the strong silhouettes of the furniture.
Designing For Social Change (book spread)
I am currently writing a book about strategies to help guide the process of community-based design. It will be published by Princeton Architectural Press. This sample design was accepted by the publisher. The layout includes documentary photography, samples from the featured case studies, and an interview. The project featured in this sample chapter was design by Mark Alcasabas and Virginia Sasser.
andrewshea.com/book.html
Roots iPhone Application
I co-designed this mobile device application that tells people how far food traveled to reach them, information about the manufacturer, and how to recycle the packaging. Conceived of and designed with Mark Alcasabas.
Proof-of-Concept Video: vimeo.com/4435928
Radio Telephony Spelling Alphabet
Design often reaches a new level of intimacy when crafted by hand. In this case, I painted the letters of these three coded alphabets (NATO, USA and Royal Navy). I used of watercolor paint to create transparency, a quality that often eludes the military.
Dimensions 29 X 35 inches
Adbusters One Flag
This design was a finalist in an international competition where designers were challenged to create a flag that could unify every nation. I created the same amount of pennants as there are countries in the world and set them in the colors that make up the world's existing flags.The pennants point inward, toward a unified center.
adbusters.org/campaigns/oneflag/entries
"The Most Common Rare Disease That Nobody Knows About"
I am passionate about using graphic design to help communities in need (particularly those that have complex social problems) and advised a group of graphic design students who made this tabloid. The 16-page newsprint was designed to raise awareness about neurofibromatosis, a neurological disease, and to serve as a fundraising piece for the client, NF-Mid-Atlantic. The course was taught by Bernard Canniffe.
issuu.com/andrewshea/docs/neurofibromatosis_tabloid
Word Book 2009 Calendar
This type treatment involved physically rearranging the letters on a Olivetti Lettera 22 type writer to spell out the title.
Visual Identities
I love the puzzle of learning about a company and translating what I find out into a simple mark. Some of my recent clients include Departure World, The Bancroft Collaborative, Green Point Accounting, and 15FOUR.
"Eighteen Social Design Terms That Mean The Same Thing"
The branding war surrounding "social design" has spawned dozens of terms that share the same meaning. I justified this hand-painted column for my MFA thesis to show some of these redundancies.
Dimensions 4.5 feet X 9 feet
"Database Distractions"
"Social design" is a general term that gets used in many disciplines, ranging from social media to social services. In the graphic design context, it often refers to design that helps communities with social problems. I realized how difficult it is to research this topic in my efforts to learn more about it. There a few dozen good graphic design articles on the topic and just a few books. This poster summarizes my research into specific search engines and databases.