Selection of Works

2008 / 2009

Over the following pages you will find a selection of

graphic and web design work I have completed over
the last two years. Thank you for your time.
Adhibit: Biringing Art to Public Spaces
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Roll fold leaflet that demonstrates the concept behind the

campaign as well as acting as promotional material.
Acetate overlay held within two windowed leaflet panels.
Adhibit: Biringing Art to Public Spaces
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Roll fold leaflet that demonstrates the concept behind the

campaign as well as acting as promotional material.
Acetate overlay held within two windowed leaflet panels.
Adhibit: Biringing Art to Public Spaces
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Roll fold leaflet that demonstrates the concept behind the

campaign as well as acting as promotional material.
Acetate overlay held within two windowed leaflet panels.
Adhibit: Biringing Art to Public Spaces
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Web Site designed to promote and provide information on the

campaign. Artists can upload and vote on artwork, the most
popular of which will be displayed through the installations.
Adhibit: Biringing Art to Public Spaces
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Web Site designed to promote and provide information on the

campaign. Artists can upload and vote on artwork, the most
popular of which will be displayed through the installations.
Adhibit: Biringing Art to Public Spaces
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Web Site designed to promote and provide information on the

campaign. Artists can upload and vote on artwork, the most
popular of which will be displayed through the installations.
Design for Elegant Frugality
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Two books were created as part of an innovative response to

a RSA brief that called for a the graphic design industry to
consider its impact on the environment.
Design for Elegant Frugality
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Two books were created as part of an innovative response to

a RSA brief that called for a the graphic design industry to
consider its impact on the environment.
Design for Elegant Frugality
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Two books were created as part of an innovative response to

a RSA brief that called for a the graphic design industry to
consider its impact on the environment.
Design for Elegant Frugality
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Two books were created as part of an innovative response to

a RSA brief that called for a the graphic design industry to
consider its impact on the environment.
Bay Hotel Suites
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Bespoke web site design for sea front hotel in Lyme Regis, Dorset.
All graphics and web development required, as well as customised
enquiries form and photo gallery.
Bay Hotel Suites
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Bespoke web site design for sea front hotel in Lyme Regis, Dorset.
All graphics and web development required, as well as customised
enquiries form and photo gallery.
Bay Hotel Suites
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Bespoke web site design for sea front hotel in Lyme Regis, Dorset.
All graphics and web development required, as well as customised
enquiries form and photo gallery.
The Flower Consultant
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Bespoke corporate branding for a newly-founded florist in

Devon. Original brand image was created and applied to
business cards and company web site, as requested.
The Flower Consultant
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Bespoke corporate branding for a newly-founded florist in

Devon. Original brand image was created and applied to
business cards and company web site, as requested.
Devon Lettings
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Business card design for Crediton-based lettings agent. Original

corporate branding juxtaposed with modern styling and
considered typography, as requested by client.
Devon Lettings
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Business card design for Crediton-based lettings agent. Original

corporate branding juxtaposed with modern styling and
considered typography, as requested by client.
Devon Safeguarding Children Board
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Ongoing web site design for local government initiative

concentrating on the well-being of the county’s infants and
children. Design approved and awaiting content.
Get Ur Voice Heard
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Ongoing web site design for local government initiative that allows
young people to have their say about important issues and become
involved in democracy.
Once Upon a Tea Party
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Bespoke web site for newly-founded business offering a tea party

service in Devon. Floral theme as requested by client.
Tea Screen Print
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Print created during Experimental Screen Print class at the

Arts Institute at Bournemouth. Vector illustration created in
Illustrator before being printed and applied to a screen.
Bishop a senior Christian cleric in charge of
spiritual life and administration of a
particular region
Greek episkopos ‘overseer’ from
Skopus ‘watcher’ (Source of English
‘scope’)
909
Bishopric the area that a bishop governs
Old English rice ‘realm, power’

See similar meaning to above The Bishopric

Latin sedere ‘to sit’

Diocese the churches that are under the

of
authority of one bishop, or the district
containing those churches. Devon
Greek diokesis ‘administration’ (of a
household, from oikos ‘house’)
Wells

Cathedral a principal church containing the SOMERSET

bishop’s seat or throne
Greek Kathedra from Kata ‘down’ and Sherborne
hedra ‘seat’ Crediton
DORSET
DEVON Exeter
Mitre a bishop’s tall pointed hat creased
across the top, symbolising the cloven CORNWALL
tongues of Pentecost
St. Germans
via Greek and Latin ‘belt, turban’ but
of uncertain origin.

Crosier a staff with a hooked end like a

shepherd’s crook symbolising bishops’
role of care for their congregations as
shepherds tend flocks

Pectoral Cross a cross worn on the bishop’s breast

Latin pectorale ‘breastplate’ Words by Anthony Geering
Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral
Rector of Crediton 1986 - 2001

Graphic Design by James Hambly

www.jameshambly.com

The Bishopric of Devon

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Roll fold leaflet and bespoke illustrations designed to house

text-heavy literature for a religious festival celebrating and
commemorating the Bishopric of Devon.
I T
n the year 909 Dunstan, future Archbishop of
Canterbury, was born in the West Country. As Abbot
of Glastonbury he reformed monasticism. Later, as
scholar, artist, craftsman, musician, leader and indeed
politician, he was a powerful influence on the tenth
century church.
The great King Alfred had died ten years before.
The Danish threat had not gone away, but the kingdom
was stronger and self-confident. It was a time of
consolidation and flowering in the Church.
By the end of the tenth century we can get a snapshot
picture of what the church was like.
Parishes were well established as ecclesiastical units.
The local Church was normally the property of the lord.
Churches had differing status, being (as now!) either
principales or mediocres.
Priests, described as “altar thegns”, were often local
men with rudimentary education, simple in taste. A
good few still married, despite the strictures of the
reforming Saint Dunstan.
People were instructed to observe the Lord’s day
from Saturday lunchtime till Monday breakfast.
They were encouraged to make their communion
regularly (including each Sunday of Lent) and received
communion in both kinds, the wine through a silver
or ivory straw. And “no man to take the housel after he
hath broke his fast”.
Children were given careful and regular instruction.
Teaching resources included books of homilies. The
Blickling Homilies, for instance, were written to
prepare everyone for the end of the world in 1000.
Dunstan and other leaders set high standards of reform,
worship and Christian life. Clearly forms of paganism
and heathen practices persisted, for laws of the time
forbid “the worship of fountains, necromancy, auguries
and enchantments, soothsaying and legerdemain” or
resorting “to special stones and trees as holy places.”
he very things that had worried Saint Boniface
two hundred years before were still prevalent.
Apostle of Germany, Boniface had grown up
in mid Devon and was well aware of the nymets, the
woodhenges around sacred pools which formed the
holy places of the old religion.
To this day local names recall them: Kings Nympton,
Nymet Tracey, George Nympton and so on.
In cutting down Thor’s Oak at Geismar in Germany,
Boniface was deliberately confronting the old religion
with the new.
His stern faith and abiding love for the English kept
him anxious for the church that had nurtured him.
He sent a request to King Aethelherd for a monastery
to be founded at the place called Creedie. Thus his
birthplace is construed to be Crediton. In 739 a minster
was established in Crediton and gifted to Forthere,
Bishop of Sherborne.
The whole of the West Country was part of the Diocese
of Sherborne and so it remained until 909. At that time
it was split into county dioceses: Wells for Somerset,
Crediton for Devon, St. Germans for Cornwall.
Why Crediton rather than Exeter?
First, surely, because of the popular cult of Boniface.
Second it stood at the centre of Devon, an important
crossroads. Third, perhaps because the rich manor
and monastic lands could fund a bishopric. Lastly, the
bishop’s seat in Saxon times was not necessarily in the
main centre of population or the County town.
So for 150 years the see was based at Crediton. That it
was a significant and influential holding is clear, as we
know that Ethelred the Unready’s son, Alfwold, held
the see at the turn of the millennium. (The good bishop
kept a large galley manned by slaves at Topsham to row
him around the diocese).
The Bishopric of Devon
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Roll fold leaflet and bespoke illustrations designed to house
text-heavy literature for a religious festival celebrating and
commemorating the Bishopric of Devon.
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bout 1040 the dioceses of Cornwall and Crediton
were united under Bishop Lyfing of Crediton and
then in 1050, his successor Leofric, petitioned
King Edward the Confessor and Pope Leo IX to transfer
the see to Exeter.
Why Exeter rather than Crediton?
Since 50 AD when Isca Dumnonii was founded by the
Romans as their westernmost station, it had been the
regional capital. It was a walled city and had already
withstood Viking raids. It had a well-established and
flourishing Benedictine house and Minster. It was also
a port.
So it was that Leofric, last bishop of Crediton and first
bishop of Exeter was enthroned in a splendid ceremony
in Exeter’s Minster Church. Edward the Confessor
and his beautiful young Queen Eadgyth acting as
supporters.
It is intriguing to learn from William of Malmesbury
that even at this date, nearly four hundred years after
the Synod of Whitby, two integrities existed in Exeter.
St Sidwell’s was a Saxon Church, following the
mainstream Roman rite, whilst St. Petroc’s followed the
Celtic rite.
A British bishop, we believe, remained embedded in
a monastic foundation at Par in Cornwall even as lands
around Padstow funded the Crediton bishops.
E
leven hundred years on, the great cruciform
Collegiate Church in Crediton reflects in its
stones the reddish purple of the Devon earth;
and the ravishing wedding cake that is Exeter Cathedral
sits proud on its hill in the new, open cityscape.
These are the physical signs of a rich and living heritage
encompassing British, Roman, Saxon and Norman
Christians. And us.
Skate Bournemouth
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Concertina book created to catalogue for a collection of skating

locations in Bournemouth. Each location is rated by difficulty
and its location mapped. Printed on 110GSM Matt substrate.
Skate Bournemouth
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Concertina book created to catalogue for a collection of skating

locations in Bournemouth. Each location is rated by difficulty
and its location mapped. Printed on 110GSM Matt substrate.
Skate Bournemouth
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Concertina book created to catalogue for a collection of skating

locations in Bournemouth. Each location is rated by difficulty
and its location mapped. Printed on 110GSM Matt substrate.
Skate Bournemouth
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Concertina book created to catalogue for a collection of skating

locations in Bournemouth. Each location is rated by difficulty
and its location mapped. Printed on 110GSM Matt substrate.
Skate Bournemouth
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Concertina book created to catalogue for a collection of skating

locations in Bournemouth. Each location is rated by difficulty
and its location mapped. Printed on 110GSM Matt substrate.
Skate Bournemouth
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Concertina book created to catalogue for a collection of skating

locations in Bournemouth. Each location is rated by difficulty
and its location mapped. Printed on 110GSM Matt substrate.
Devon Lettings
L I M I T E D

Devon Lettings
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Quarter-page newspaper advertisement for Crediton-based

lettings agent. Considered typography used to deliver text-
heavy content, as requested by client.
Selection of Works
2008 / 2009

www.jameshambly.com