ELOISE AITKEN





I am a Graphic Designer currently working as an artworker in the fashion industry. I am interested in community facing solutions achieved through progressive problem solving. I am fascinated with the theory surrounding type design and unique print practices.

My process often surrounds lo-fi and tactile methods of image treatment and finish -  I am hugely inspired by radical print design of the 60s and 70s and often try and emulate the physicality in my work.

I deal with a wide range of material from archival visual ephemera to my own research and writing.




I am always open to design enquiries, 
please get in touch @aitkeneloise@gmail.com

















What I am currently working on:






Index of clients
& collaborators:
  • London College of Fashion, UAL

  • Central Saint Martins, UAL

  • The Common Press, London UK.

  • The Radical Film Network, Madrid

  • The Documentary Film Council, Bristol

  • BABE book fair, Bristol

  • Oxford Brookes University

  • Madruga Festival, Wales

  • University of the West of England































Last Updated 21.02.26
PROJECTS:




PRINT 



1. London College of Fashion Archives, 
Print & Exhibition design



A3 Exhibition introduction, 850x2000cm banner, A5 flyer, Exhibition captions.

2025 I designed a collection of assets for the LCF archive in collaboration with its curators to advertise its’ facilities and exhibitions.

The brief was for a bold and succinct design that was coherent between elements and emphasised the extensive, storytelling aspect of the archives. The exhibition templates also needed to be dynamic to work as evergreen artworks for future shows. 







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Radical Film Network Conference, Madrid



2. Radical Film Network Conference, Madrid







Large format poster, 400 fold down leaflets & digital assets.

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 clear vision for the aesthetic of the conference which I refined into an indentity that would look as strong physically as it did digitally. I was also keen to implement an aspect of lo-fi physicality to the project to pay homage to its grassroots nature.


For this iteration of the artwork for the poster, I scoured the archives’ films and compiled stills from various works that I thought expressed the subject of the conference. I treated the imagery by printing, collaging scanning and risographing. 

Design for fold-down leaflet for attendees of the conference with programme of events.





 
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Remaining Illegible 



4. Remaining Illegible, An anthology






75 page publication, 
self published and bound in Bristol.

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 research 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 - chapter breaks
are risographed. 

Madruga Festival Zine




5. Madruga Festival, zine & print 











500 copy, A5,16 pg staple bound zine, printed locally

2025 I was briefed with designing a newspaper/zine for the third edition of Madruga, an independant music festival in Wales. They wanted a lo-fi, satirical, cheesy feel to the zine which was achieved through the one colour print. I also designed other assets for the festival such as set times and posters advertising activities.

I wanted to reflect the grassroots ethos of the festival with friendly, unstructured approach to the design.

Alongside the zines, I designed some risographed poster inserts of the year’s lineup as a keepsake for the artists performing as well as the attendees. 

Loud Paper! 



6. Loud Paper!


88 pages

Published on recycled japanese cartridge, black and white.

2023Loud 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.


Cyber-Feminism zine series



7. Test Project





Risographed on cheap, found paper, 
print run of 20.


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.


& miscellaneous printed matter





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