Paul Crump is a Graphic Designer based in London and a recent graduate from the BA Graphic and Media Design course at the London College of Communication.

Paul is a self-proclaimed ‘versatile perfectionist’ with a keen eye for detail and he produces clean, well structured design and graphics. Every element of his work is well informed and carefully thought through and he strives to challenge existing formats in an attempt to make them more engaging and eye-catching to the viewer.

During his time at university he also worked with Alexander McQueen and joined WhyNotAssociates as an intern straight after completing the BA course.

It (WhyNotAssociates) was a great experience working in a multi-disciplinary studio, any questions you had they were happy to help and let you work in the way that suits you best. The feedback given was very helpful to feed into my own practice.

At the moment I’m working on the identity for the textile designer Finchittida Finch who recently graduated from the Chelsea College of Art and Design.

I can vouch for his meticulous and strong work ethic and this has been recently rewarded with a First Class Honours degree and features on both the Creative Review and Grafik Magazine’s ‘Great Graduates’. Paul is pushing on with this momentum and has big plans around the corner:

In the future I would like to experience working in New York. It’s a place I love visiting and has a completely different atmosphere to London. A job at Pentagram would be amazing. Just working alongside some of the designers there would be a dream come true.

Paul has also recently setup partnerships with two other recent graduates as part of DIVIDEBYTHREE in order to push their work further as part of a team.

To find out more behind the projects featured check out www.paul-crump.com.
Twitter: @paul_crump

Rich.

Yesterday we gathered our first stage of Research for the first of a series collaborative projects.

This first one with BeyondPAR entitled ‘Togetherness’ is essentially to get together, lock heads, share ideas and see what happens.

After a couple of meetings we’ve decided to look more into Kaleidoscopes and the abstract shapes and patterns they create.

We asked people to select any number of coloured shapes they feel drawn to, associate a feel with, an emotional attachment or that may represent them in one way or another.

We hope to take each individual case and then ‘splice’ them and experiment by taking different people and mix them together.

With our homemade Kaleidoscope we’ll then begin to record the outcome… and eventually create digital and mixed-media visuals from what we find.

You can follow our progress on the tumblr and twitter.

Rich.

Check out this hand-made deck of playing cards designed by Paul Crump.

Each card bares the familiar form of each suit but in a carefully reconstructed geo-metric form that resemble precious diamonds or crystal-like structures.

‘From seeing other designers doing there own they often left the hearts, clubs,spades and diamonds icons the same, but I wanted to change them so this is what i have come up with. I like the linear aesthetic to them along with the simplicity.’

For more information email p_t_c12@hotmail.com

Rich.

I love this new illustration by Graphic Designer and LCC student Paul Crump.

Check out Paul’s blog here for updates on his latest work.

“This piece of work was for an advertising brief based on the G20 protest. We had to take a ‘for or against’ stand point on the statement: ‘The police were too aggressive towards the protestors’.

I took the ‘against’ stand point and portrayed the protestors as the aggressive people.  I showed this through the style of ‘Where’s Wally’ to show that the ‘wallys’ during the protest were the violent protestors just looking for trouble.”

From original line drawing the lines were then screenprinted along with the text. Promarkers were then used for the colour on 180gsm paper.

Click the image to see it in a larger size.

Rich.