Eloise Aitken


I am a multi-disciplinary designer interested in community facing solutions achieved through progressive problem solving. 

My work deals with a wide range of material from archival visual ephemera to my own research and writing.

aitkeneloise@gmail.com
@aitkeneloise


Projects:

We Design For the Community/
Common Press

Radical Film Network Conference

Typenowhere Degree Show Poster

CyberFeminism Series
Re:Build Poster Project
Labouring to Remain Illegible 
Urgent Craft!
  
Loud Paper
Home To Roost




Me with a poster!

We Design For The Community/
Common Press Project
2024 - Ongoing

Through the ‘We design for the community’ project, I have been working alongside Common Press - an independant radical bookshop and arts space. The aim of the project was to provide support through design to community and charity organisations that would otherwise not have the time or funds to do this themselves.

Radical Film Network Conference Design

2024

The Radical Film Nework hosts a conference annually and I was briefed to design the identity for this years’ conference held in Madrid. This included printed matter such as large scale posters and programmes as well as a digital timetable. 




Typenowhere 2024 Degree show poster

I designed the poster for my grauduate degree show with the intention of reflecting the ethos of the course. 

Risographed on recycled cartridge and neon paper.

CyberFeminism
Risograph Series

2024

I designed the cyberfeminism series as part of a larger scale research project on the philosophy surrounding lo-fi design. Mindy Seu’s Cyberfeminism Index was a huge source of inspiration for my practice and I wanted to pay homage to some iconic figures that were pioneers of a new wave of digital design and understanding. This fold out zines were the product of an hour or so of design work and were intended to be quick paced, cheap, easily reproducible pieces of tangible printed matter.

Risographed on cheap cartridge paper, print run of 20.

Self published

Re:Build Poster project

Re:Build is a collaborative poster project to raise awareness for earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. The process of the poster focused on creating and collecting physical assets then collaging and digitising.

Risograph printed on 110gsm 
recycled paper.

Labouring to
Remain Illegible

2024

“Labouring to Remain Illegible” is a collative research publication about ‘low resolution’ art and design and the future of post-digital creativity. It includes my own dissertation which advocates for lo-fi design and higlights the social implications it had throughout history.

This book was self published on G.F Smith Gmund paper & Hemp blocker, 100gsm. Whilst most of it is printed single/duo colour on a Xerox inkjet - parts are risographed. 

This piece of work was recently featured on Dezeen!



Urgent Craft!

2024

Urgent Craft was a continuation on my research project surrounding radical and independant publishing and uses Paul Soullelis’ online syallabus on the theme of ‘Urgent Craft’. 

Self published and bound on GF Smith Gmund, 100gsm with a peach cartridge paper gallery at the back.




Loud Paper!

2022

Loud Paper! is an exploration into the history and legacy of xerox art and design. It is a collation of research into the origins of photocopying in relation to social climates starting in the 60s as well as the journey it made into culture and politics. All the imagery in the publication was put through a xerox scanner and printed off and scanned back onto my laptop.

88 pages

Published on recycled japanese cartridge, black and white. 

Home To Roost

2023

Home To Roost is an exploratory publication about the intertwined lives of pigeon fanciers in Moscow and London. It was an excersise in collecting body copy / imagery from narrative articles and photo archives as well as designing a layout that brings all these elements together.

24 pages

Published on recycled japanese cartridge, single colour print.