Timothy Stokes Graphic Designer

RSA : Circular Futures  The Man Box A monthly subscription of mens toiletries spanning shower gel all the way through to condoms, you can customize your box for up to 6-9 items, 3 large 3 medium or 9 medium.  Utilizing waste recycling for the packaging, and using a send/take back system meaning absolutely no waste packaging.  

RSA : Circular Futures   The Freezer   A box made from waste plastic lined with temperature control material, holding 3-4 freezer draws of meat and frozen groceries. The freezer draws also made from waste plastic and are customizable to slot into your freezer easily. All items have zero packaging and the draws and box are collected by the driver on his next delivery and reused. The Freezer can be delivered to your door or to a freezer point, a delivery point close by where you can collect when appropriate for you. All groceries are locally sourced from farmers and meet fairtrade standards. This idea meets the following Criteria in the RSA brief a new product and/or packaging that promotes re-use and is not thrown away  a new business model or system that promotes a ‘take/send back’ model for a product or packaging after use  a new or repurposed product made from existing waste streams  a product or service design solution that e...

28 Briefs to chose from, 3 to shortlist, 1 to rule them all, wait.. This morning we were given an introduction for our next brief, a 6 week brief before christmas. While the actual hand in for this is march, we have another project starting after christmas so we need to get this finished before.  Brief 1: http://www.ycn.org/awards/ycn-student-awards/2016-17-ycn-student-awards/briefs/orchard-pig I've chosen this brief to develop initial ideas because of my experience creating packaging for a Guinness craft beer, I enjoy working with alcohol products and think this would suit my skills well. Brief 2: http://www.ycn.org/awards/ycn-student-awards/2016-17-ycn-student-awards/briefs/the-grown-up-chocolate-company This brief sounds fantastic, seriously. Designing a packaging box for grown up chocolate that is customizable? Who wouldn't. Brief 3: http://sda.thersa.org/en/challenge/rsa-student-design-awards-2017/phase/rsa-student-design-awards-2017/track/circular-futu...

Names names names names names.. Lifeatar Avatāra Avatarati Lavatar Symbol Simbol  Symbod Cast Symbio I'm getting a real feel for Symbol at the moment! It feels bold, easy to remember, flexible, and is a Synonym of Avatar so fits with the project theme excellently.  

This morning's seminar feedback for my ideas, specifically lifeatar, was as follows; Sims Wii's  Xbox avatars Security problems with anonymity How am I going to fully portray the advertising campaign.  Why cartoon avatars?  Name?!?!?! Hopefully will have a post up later/tomorrow with my next development based off this feedback!

I've finally come to an Idea that may actually be ready for final development and then production! Lifeatar, which the idea is currently named, is a new social media platform designed around promoting anonymity. My idea for a brief is to create a series of posters advertising and promoting this new platform, making sure that the poster content can be easily transformed for use on web and smaller print ads.

Ideas, trying to define them.. stay tuned..

Initial mind map of wandering thoughts, not much notation necessary!

The Dilemma of Internet Persona's versus Real Persona's. I got feedback about the topic I chose for my first studio brief after my varietal research today. My original topic was an Impersonal version of what is titled above, a vague and wide subject, how people differ between real life and the internet.  I received two important parts of feedback on this. Impersonal, the project may function far better if I use myself as one of the comparisons. This is an interesting switchup but also a scary one, do I want to document myself heavily in both of these "worlds"?  The second piece of feedback I recieved was simplicity, my thoughts were on doing a series of infographic posters, which is a good idea in itself, but is it actually challenging enough to push my limits and force me to go outside of my boundaries to learn new techniques or discover new things about myself? With this feedback, it's back to the brain based drawing board to work out how to com...

First brief of the year, Cybernetic Self. Immediately on receipt of the brief, two big things came to mind.  1. The Turing Test 2. Catfishing/Fake personas.  The Turing test, for those of you who don't know, is a test written by Dr. Alan Turing, which is used to verify the legitimacy of an android. The point of the test is for a human being to communicate with an android and be unable to identify that the android, is in fact, non-human. Catfishing/Fake personas are a devastatingly common thing across the internet at the moment, from very slight differences in somebodies personality between real life social interaction and internet interaction all the way through to 40 year old men/women pretending to be teen's and even children in order to meet up with them/groom them.