Dylan Chalmers
A multidisciplinary designer who’s work spans a wide range of mediums–photography, typography, and illustration-often accentuated by self-crafted modular grids.
About
Major Project 1 (D&AD)
Activism is an effective way to bring about social or political change, in this case the aim is to promote climate activism. In order to do this in the most effective way an event was organised consisting of performances and local guest speakers. By curating this event, all touch-points could be covered and connected. While showcasing the performance was a good start, the addition of guest speakers from the local area helped to reach a wider audience and inform all those attending.
The poem 'The Beast' by Scottish poet, lain Banks was chosen to keep the project local. The use of 'The Beast' in this case was to act as a metaphor for climate change. Focusing on the main descriptors of 'The Beast' connected the work to the subject of climate change and grabbed peoples attention. The main theme of the project was disruption with the focus of displaying this disruption through overlapping, interconnected pieces of typography in varied mediums.
Major Project 2 (ISTD)
Oramics: Sine & Sound is a response to the ‘Line’ brief of the 2024 ISTD annual competition. The publication explores the art form of Oramics created by Daphne Oram in 1962 in which sound was created by making marks on transparent media: for generation by painting waveforms onto glass slides, and in control by marking 10 parallel 35mm filmstrips. Through this innovation, the evolution of electronic music was set in motion, bringing us an ever developing diverse genre of music.
Major Project 1 (D&AD) (The Beast)
A stop-motion typographic animation accommodating the inclusion of spoken word. Performed as part of a climate activism event.
A set of promotional posters as part of the climate activism event.
Major Project 2 (ISTD) (Oramics: Sine & Sound)
Set of images showcasing varying ISTD spreads.