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Poster designed for Leicester Charity Menphys promoting their annual open garden event at Belvoir Lodge in July. My design is type lead and whilst formal in layout the poster has an deliberate handmade arts and crafts feel to it reflecting the rural nature of the events location.    

Designed for a charity fundraising event at Belvior Lodge this poster is primarily typeface lead with an Art Deco style header and a sans serif typeface for the additional information to giving it a formal but playful style. The text is crowned by sketched flowers (as one may see above an entry gate to an open garden) and features various small birds perched amoungst the foliage, a mother and child bird can be seen on the bottom left alongside the words accompanied children free. The poster uses a justified layout for the text allowing for lots of information to be presented in a clear and easily read form and highlighting the main points.

I woke up at 6:30am and set off to Bradgate Park in Leicestershire, a former Medieval Deer Park, first enclosed as a hunting park over 750 years ago and home to a large herd of wild deer that I planned to capture on film. As the sun rose over the parkland the deep sounds of the male deer calling out could be heard though the crisp morning air, the cool palette of blues and whites gave way to deep oranges as the majestic animals made their presence known. An army of photographers marched through the ferns like an episode of Dads Army, their large lenses draped in various forms of camouflage. I decided to go the opposite way and came across a lone stag hunting for his breakfast in amongst the plant life backlit by the rising sun. The video above shows the deer calling out to each other across the parkland bathed in the early morning sunlight. Some images of the deer can be seen after the break

On the 14th August Her Grace, Frances, Dowager Duchess of Rutland, kindly agreed to open her gardens to members of the public to raise funds for Menphys, the Leicester & Leicestershire charity which supports children and young people with mental and physical disabilities. Created for Menphys this film shot and edited by me is a summary of the days events and features a tour of the gardens and courtyard where drinks and refreshments where served along with a selection of stall to browse. more infomation about Menphys can be found at this link Menphys