Tom Portfolio 2025

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1. Sight into Site (Catalogue)

Thomas Heath
From Fabrcica Research Centre
2023

Exploring the fragile relationship between Humans and the ‘Landscape’. The artist constructs a space using flour (taken from the Earth) by pressing the material into a perfect (15cmx20cmx9cm) rectangle. The arrangement and placement of the flour blocks was dictated by Tadao Ando’s architectural grid lines.

By questioning the fragility of landscape/memory and place/space, the viewer can explore the meaning of ‘Landscape’. Is it something to be seen, touched or simply remembered?

2. Sight into Site (Sculpture)

3. ‘The artist who swallowed the world’

An ad to advertise Erwin Wurm's book 'The artist who swallowed the world' to the online community of Fabrica Research Centre.
 Australian artist, Erwin Wurm's work captures a surreal and bizarre world of unexpected relationships and balance with everyday objects – striking and amusing, Wurm’s work makes you stop, think and become inquisitive to the world around you.

4. Stigmata of the Past

The physical features of a landscape bear the scars of its history, and these marks persist over time. A landscape is a repository of memories, and I can explore its past by examining its physical characteristics.

The quote below, by M. Corajoud, highlights the idea that a landscape holds important clues about its past, and that by studying it, we can gain a deeper understanding of the history and culture of a place.)

"In the flesh of the landscape all the stigmata of the past are impressed and endured. Landscape is a memory and I can interrogate it". – M. Corajoud in B. Cillo, 2008, p. 87W.

5. Truly, really, actually. [We Take Data]

Using print to explore the visual expression of human interaction with man-made objects in response to a quote a Babette Mangolte’s film ‘The Sky On Location’. (1983)

“We take data and document where we are and what we do and what nature is doing. We accumulate photographs and records to compensate that sense of irremediable loss for the passing traveller.” – The Sky On Location (1983) dir. Babette Mangolte.

6. Truly, really, actually. [Documentation of Research]

Truly, really, actually a name taken Marcel Broodthaers exhibition catalogue ‘Court Circuit’, is a collection text and artist references, from the likes of Hans-Peter Feldmann, Marcel Broodthaers and Chuck Berry. The poster which folded up into an A4 page was designed to inform a group of artist with what I had been researching.

Each coloured text block relates to a corresponding coloured outlined image on the reverse side of the A2 fold-out.

7. Untitled (Screenprint, 2021)

This print was made using a digital collage built from a library of patterns and geometric shapes I created. I layered and arranged these elements to create a sense of movement, contrast, and tension within the composition.

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Information

T[h]om[as] Heath
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A London-based Graphic Designer with a focus on identity and brand design, editorial design, independent publishing, and education. My approach is rooted in researching by making—exploring ideas hands-on through experimentation and play, which helps me uncover unexpected solutions and create work that feels fresh and thoughtful.

Available for hire, project-based or fulltime

"Just remember, my accounts of actions I’ve experienced are the fourth generation of communication. First, it happened; second, I conceived what happened; third, I reproduced what I conceived; and fourth, you will conceive what I have reproduced." – Chuck Berry

An Archive of:

Education

Fabrica Research Centre
2023

Falmouth University
2016-2019

Employment

Eduction Employment

Teaching

BBC Creative
2019-2025

Fabrica Research Centre
2023

Carter Studio
2019 - Internship

Charlie Smith Design
2019 - Internship

Kingston School of Art, United Kingdom
Tutoring
2023 / 2024

Falmouth University, United Kingdom
Tutoring
2022 - 2025

Falmouth University
United Kingdom
Surfers Against Sewage / Springboard Studios
2023

Green&Blue Festival
Milan, Italy
An introduction to collage
2022

Falmouth University
United Kingdom
Nowhere/ICBQ
2022

Falmouth University
United Kingdom
Object / Place
2021

Talks

National College of Art and Design
Dublin, Ireland
Communication Design Department
Illustration, Graphic Design & Moving Image
2023

Falmouth University
BA (Hons) Graphic Design
2022

Birmingham Design Festival
2019

Exhibitions

Il Collettivo Intelligente
Oio Studio
Fabrica Research Centre
Villorba, Italy
2022

Just Passing Through
Carlos Casas
Villorba, Italy
2022

Here</>There Exhibtion
Adrian Shaughnessy
Beijing, China
2019

Press

Diario Design (2022)
Shape of Words (2022)
Fedrigoni 365 (2022)
Communication Arts: Fresh Finds (2022)
Communication Arts (2021)
The Brand Identity (2021)
It's Nice That (2021)
MagCulture (2021)
Collide24 (2020)
It's Nice That (2020)

Judging

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1. Primal Pathways

A rebrand for Primal Pathways, a unique safari experience in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley. The new identity reflects the organisation's deep connection to nature, emphasising immersive, low-impact exploration.

Through refined typography, symbolic iconography, and a cohesive visual system, the brand captures the essence of walking in the wild—where every step fosters a profound connection with the natural world.

2. BBC Euros

A BBC Sport campaign to celebrate the Euro 2024 Football tournament in Germany. Turning the Euros into a giant, mad pinball machine – because the tournament is unpredictable and packed with twists and turns, it might as well be one.

The typography captures the fast-paced, explosive energy of pinball machines and the Euros, blending vibrant vintage pinball aesthetics with the angular structure of Germanic typeforms to honor the host nation, Germany.

3. Grow Gang

A brand identity for Grow Gang, an online grow light shop, crafting a bold and engaging visual presence that resonates with its target audience. My role encompassed designing a distinctive logo; which emulates the cells of plants, selecting a cohesive colour palette, and establishing a modern, vibrant aesthetic.

4. BBC Radio 1 Dance

BBC Radio 1 wish to start sharing new, content specific dance music to its committed BBC Radio 1 listeners.

I was tasked alongside senior designer Hugo Timm and the team at Wolff Olins to months of strategy, research, development and refinement, to create and implement an identity and system to a new string of BBC Radio shows helping transform the shape of radio to millions of weekly listeners.

5. ICBQ Magazine

Features:
It’s Nice That (ICBQ)
Collide24
MagCulture
The Brand Identity

ICBQ is a platform for work that might otherwise go unseen—unfinished projects, rejected ideas, personal work, experiments, and failures.

I co-founded ICBQ with four friends in March 2018 during my second year at Falmouth University. Since then, we’ve released five issues (with a sixth in progress), run university workshops, spoken at Birmingham Design Festival, and stocked ICBQ globally in shops like Magma, MagCulture, and Drawdown Books.

BBC Bitesize – Don't Learn off Randoms

Agency:  BBC Creative
ECD:  Rasmus Smith Bech 
Creative Director: Mark Williams 
Creatives:Aron Sidhu, Steve Lownes
Directors: Bine Bach
Production Company: Biscuit Filmworks

Features:
Creative Review (2023)

BBC Bitesize campaign shows how misinformation is harming students with a quirky set of shorts, the learning platform is warning students not to use unverified user-generated content when revising.