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Infographic Systems



Infographic panels -  ‘The Future Is Here’ Design Museum exhibition

Three illustrative panels, lasercut from black Perspex, leading into this landmark exhibition about the ‘new industrial revolution’ by depicting key moments in technological advance. The visual system extended to further infographics on wall panels and on the exhibition microsite

Watch a film of the making of the panels here

See the artwork here

Visit the Design Museum’s exhibition site here

Read the ItsNiceThat review here




Vitreous enamel public art - Ipswich School

A commission to design and manufacture an 8m-long public artwork to front a new arts building in an ancient educational setting in Ipswich. The idea follows the town’s timeline in accurate graphic form leaving voids that create huge letterforms. Historical archive research led to a range of ideas, and eventual manufacture in Germany using vitreous enamel

Visit the school site here
UCH pathology museum schematic - Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead

Four lifesize, colour-coded figures lasercut Formica diagrams stationed at the entrance to orientate visitors and refer them to the eleven separate sections of this newly-reclassified pathology specimen collection

Graphic design by Lucienne Roberts +

Visit the University College Hospitals pathology collections online here 

Read more about the opening here

See the collection on the London Medical Museums catalogue here



Tower of London exhibition graphics - Historic Royal Palaces

A system of immersive audio-visual infographics designed to introduce visitors to the time Wellington spent as Constable of the Tower of London. Exhibition design by FF,  graphic design by Lucienne Roberts +, animation by Paul Plowman

View sample animations here and here

Visit the Historic Royal Palaces site here

Read the ItsNiceThat review here



Animated pictograms - Sentencing Council public information film

A short public information film, directed and animated by Paul Plowman, using bold colours, text shapes and simple drawn pictograms to explain how judges decide on sentencing

Visit the Sentencing Council site here

Watch the film here


Annual report icons - Save The Children International

A yearly series of icons and pictograms illustrating the charitable activities of Save The Children across the years 2014, 2015 and 2016 in their annual report

See more of Save The Children’s activities here


Publishing




Audiobook covers  - BBC Childrens’ Classics

A selection of audiobook covers commissioned by the BBC to capture the essence of a series of well-loved classic childrens’ books

Visit the BBC homepage here





Imagery for ‘Golden Meaning’ book - GraphicDesign& Publishers

Fifty five artists were invited to contribute imagery to ‘Golden Meaning’ – a GraphicDesign& publication, in collaboration with mathematician Alex Bellos, exploring the visualisation of the Golden Ratio. This image, ‘The Rectangles We Love’, reformats the rectangles found around us in everyday life in line with the Golden Ratio

Visit the GraphicDesign& site here

Read the project’s Guardian review here















Editorial imagery - Radio Times

Images commissioned to advertise the transmission of radio plays: here a former slave returns to his homeland of Barbados – this time as a landowner

Visit the Radio Times homepage here






Lord of the Rings audiobook covers - BBC Worldwide

Cover images used as packaging illustrations to relaunch the classic 1981 recording of Lord of the Rings

Visit the BBC homepage here







Educational book covers - AVA Publishers

Cover designs, on a range of design-related topics, for Swiss design education publisher AVA (now an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing)
Editorial commissions - Times Newspapers

A series of images commissioned to illustrate regular weekly print columns. Subjects shown include intellectual property, food & drink, consumer issues

Visit the Times Newspapers here








Seasonal card - Tony Blair Faith Foundation  

Multi-faith imagery to communicate the work and scope of the former Prime Minister’s charitable foundation on Christmas cards

Visit the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change here

Printmaking





Woodblock prints - commissioned imagery

A series of semi-abstract images, both commissioned and self-generated, made in the studio using the Ukio-e reductive woodcut print technique and process inks and printed on Japanese paper

See more printmaking here




Miniature book cufflinks - promotional portfolio

Hand-typeset and illustrated miniature books held in a cufflink for easy portable access and containing handmade etchings and letterpress, with silver clasps by jeweller Alex Monroe  

Read the feature in Eye Magazine here

Visit Alex Monroe’s site here



Riso labels - exploratory images

An ongoing series of experiments, printing from redundant Riso printer masters onto adhesive labels

See more experimental imagery here

M25 prints - exploratory images

Monoprints taken from redundant Riso printer masters using motorway reference


Transfer prints - exploratory images

Process ink monoprints using improvised polythene transfer sheets

About





My work consists of thoughtful visual imagery used in a wide range of settings, extending out far beyond traditional illustration into exhibition graphics, public art, historical visual consultancy, and book arts and manufacture.
In addition, my wider areas of professional design interest range across the visual spectrum from drawing and printmaking to children's books via digital domains, artesan design and print ephemera, information graphics, visual systems and the history of visual culture. My graphic ideology is collaborative and does not accept constraints or boundaries to the situating of design as a practice.


I am committed to design pedagogy and currently lead the BA (Hons) Graphic Design course at Ravensbourne University London  – follow our BA course here: @rv_grphcdsgn

Selected clients

BBC Worldwide
Design Museum, London
Financial Times
Historic Royal Palaces
Office of Tony Blair
Special Operations Executive
Pret a Manger
Telewest
News International
British Telecom
ING Bank
Unison
New York Times
UCL Pathology Museum

Contact

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London E11

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markhudson.info@gmail.com

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