I am a multi-disciplinary designer interested in community facing solutions achieved through progressive problem solving. I am fascinated with the theory surrounding type design and unique print practices.

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

Get in touch!
aitkeneloise@gmail.com
@aitkeneloise


Index of clients and projects:

  • The Common Press, London UK.

  • The Radical Film Network, Madrid ES.

  • Work exhibited in BABE book fair, Bristol, UK

  • OIKOS magazine, Bristol, UK.

  • UWE, Bristol UK.


My CV!


Me with a poster!

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We Design For The Community/
The Common Press

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. 

The inspiration for the aesthetic of the assets came from the cut + paste, punk visuals from the 70s that were created as a result of limited materials, budget and time. Paying homage to this time in history made sense for the content as well as being generally clear and striking.  
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. The client had a really clear vision for the aesthetic of the conference which I refined to an indentity that would look as strong physically as it did digitally. I did implement a slightly different style in regards to the imagery to symbolise the grass roots, community aspect of the organisation.

This project was one that I completed all the way through from ideation to print and install which gave me a valuable insight to the finishing process. 



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!



Typenowhere 2024 Degree show poster
I designed the poster for my grauduate degree show with the intention of reflecting the ethos of the course. Lo-fi print processes have always been a fundamental element of the BA Graphic Design course and we wanted to show this through the use of the Risograph to print. Fun and playful but striking and bold was the inspiration for the type.

Risographed on recycled cartridge and neon paper.

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.

Motion experimentation
2023

This motion piece was an experimentation with manipulating the frame animation process. It is a result about 400 printed and scanned frames.

The inspiration for this project came from wanting to explore the relationship between reprocessing formats using physical print methods.
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

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.