William
Naylor
Bristol | Birmingham based Designer studying at The University of the West of England. My practice typically looking at a range of editorial -publications, typefaces’s and guides.
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Portfolio
Redescovering Bristol’s Old City - Wayfinding Guide
Live response to the ‘ISTD’ (International Society of Typographic Designers) project. The guide helps you redefine the old city of Bristol through a series of rubbings and historical landmarks. Once completed the rubbings series, a historical fact can be shown.
B5 182 x 257 mm
Custom Typeface Bristol Old City
Interactive Wayfinding guide
French link Stitch Bind
‘Get Lost to Take Back Control’
‘Getting Lost to Take Back Control’ challenges conformity by encouraging us to explore our everyday urban spaces, reinterpreting the buildings, sound, and paths we interact with whilst also showing the capitalist culture we consume without our control. The publication examines ‘The Galleries,’ a prominent shopping center in Bristol, as a hub of capitalism, exploring its impact and influence. This could be the curved shaped design not resulting in an end, or even the ownership of the building. The solution, however, uses psychogeography as a device to help re-navigate spaces keeping control of your own abstract consumerism. The poster ‘Get Lost to Capitalism’ gives an insight into new ways to explore places without conformity as a solution to having more control.
Bristol Harbour Display was inspired by a series of type brought from business’s, industry and old style lettering in the harbour. This font acts as a fully functional display font. The purpose for this typeface is to aid the regeneration of the harbour. By providing this typeface, if a new local business requires a type identity this could be used. Alternatively, if the harbour needs a reshape or re branding this typeface embodies a brand around it.
‘Bristol Harbour’ was inspired by a series of type brought from business’s, industry and old style lettering in the harbour. This font acts as a fully functional copy font. Every letter has been vectorized and adjusted so that it has an aspect of what inspired it but also what looks consistent with the overall typeface. Although a copy font, this typeface does work as a display font. The purpose for this font is the same as the display style, aiding regeneration of the Harbour and celebrating it’s once iconic history.
105 x 250mm
Typespec
Pamplet Stitch
Rejuvenate’ Interactive publication
An interactive publication focusing on how green corridors could help rejuvenate St. Pauls. The publication also catagorizes the deprivation and misjudgement from the council when remvoing the remaing essential green life. The publication comes with seed paper - encouraging you to grow your own corridors from your back garden or anywhere local.
Cover size 280 x 330mm
Interactive eco publication
Kettle Stitch
Bristol Harbour’ & ‘Bristol Harbour Display’ , Typeset Pages
The full typest of the two Bristol Harbour & display along with a demo mockup of the display font u‘sed to rebrand Bristol’s ‘M-shed’.
Mockup and Typeset Page
Download a copy of both Typefaces Here
Bristol Harbour
Bristol Harbour display
This piece purley started as experimental. Gathering a range of images throughout Bristol and catagorizing them so that they fit as a collection. The images focus on areas that aren’t usually considered attractive or noticable.
The layout of the images also represent a sense of unconventinality through the irregular placement in the publication. The publication highlights the idea of unconventional spaces everywhere and in spaces that othes may deem conventional.
The spaces include a range of spaces - small corners in urban areas or even the middle of a congested crowd which could be just as ‘hidden’ as anywhere you might usually consider unoticed.
B5 182 x 257 mm
French link Stitch
Collaborative Submission with @harrietportfolio.co.uk & @francescaparticelli.com
The spaces include a range of spaces - small corners in urban areas or even the middle of a congested crowd which could be just as ‘hidden’ as anywhere you might usually consider unoticed.
B5 182 x 257 mm
French link Stitch
This book was an inspired visual response to the BBC radio show ‘The Listening Project’. The show follows a range of stories featuring people speaking about differences and experiences they’ve had in their life. This is represented through the composition of chairs. The style and material of the chairs attemps to personify something about the people. The use of materials could show a sense of class, age, personality.
297 mm x 297 mm
Studio photography images, hardback cover - embossed and French stitch-bound.