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ralph-emma@outlook.com
@alsoemmaralph
Graphic Designer at TANK Magazine

Previously: Junior Design Intern at A Practice for Everyday Life, Intern at Fraser Muggeridge studio
Communication Design BA(Hons)
Glasgow School of Art

Scroll for examples of work
(Full portfolio available on request)
Improvements type design (2022) A more cohesive digital version of a wobbly font found in a 1951 wood type catalogue. The type specimen uses phrases from self improvement websites.
Currently Alphabetically (2022) Poetic formations created through organising the daily news alphabetically. There is a website in development - a preview can be found here. Web poems (2022) Coding a digital tool that allows you to create poems from text scraped from selected websites.
Laurie Anderson Retrospective Exhibition (2021) An exhibition very definitely completely made up for a university brief. The type references April Greiman and Susan Kare, who were working as graphic designers in the 80s when Laurie Anderson’s music unexpectedly hit the charts. A spotlight is taken from her music videos and used as a device to reveal expressive limbs, a dance or a haircut.
How to stay if you are built for leaving: a film about suitcases. 1m12s (2021) An educational film, with New Rail Alphabet by Margaret Calvert used in the title design.
Music video for Orange by Bobby Kakouris 2m40s (2020)
So-Called Ephemera (2021) A bootleg design of an essay by Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, originally published by the Serving Library. Images respond to the paragraph length on the opposite page, so that when you flip through the book, the images move around like loose sheets of ephemera. The pages are bound with a single staple in the middle of the spine.
Talking To Writers (2022) A series of interviews with writers, held together with an elastic band. The colours are taken from linguistics diagrams that chart how voice sounds acquire meaning. The layouts respond to the vertical line of the elastic band in various ways.
Personals type design (2022) Created for a poster exhibition on censorship. The International Times, an underground newspaper, was raided by police in 1969 for publishing gay personal ads in its back pages, then convicted of “conspiracy to corrupt public morals” and shut down in 1972. The type takes inspiration from its logo and a font found on the cover of the 1971 Gay Liberation Front manifesto.
GSA 4th year graphic design’s “Banned” poster exhibition and sale at Graphical House, Glasgow. Photo by Sadie Brookes. The design was laser cut and then letterpressed with clear ink.
The type specimen contrasts vocabulary from the ads with excerpts of a report published after the 1969 raid, detailing the resulting charges.

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