Branding
Five is an educational recruitment agency specialising in SEND (special educational needs and disability). They believe it’s important young people from all backgrounds are given the best start in life, in an enriching learning environment where they feel valued and motivated.
Patwa helped 5 rebrand to better reflect what they do and believe in, by implementing a brand based around their fives values which are; inclusive, supportive, transparency, efficient and reliable.
The logo, illustrations and animation are all based on 5 circles to represent the five values.
Deliverables; logo, icons, illustrations, website, social media templates and Christmas card
Branding & Website Design
Bridging Histories is as an initiative setup by University of Bristol, UWE Bristol, the We Are Bristol History Commission and the London Commission on Diversity in the Public Realm.
It’s a learning project for everyone. Welcoming all ages, political views and social groups. The aim is to connect people to learn about the past, and make positive changes for the future.
It was setup after the Black Lives Matter protests, in response to the murder of George Floyd, the toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol and the discussions that arose thereafter.
Patwa was commissioned to brand and design the website for this initiative.
Film Festival
Reel Roots: Windrush is the first of a two-part series exploring Blackness in Britain, curated by The New Black Film Collective with support from Film Hub Scotland.
Patwa was approached to create the identity for the festival, rolling out posters and social media.
NHS
I worked with NHS Bristol and local communities on a campaign to raise awareness around the issues of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). My aim was to create an image that was impactful and universally recognised, and help inform communities and medical professionals on the impact of FGM.
I went on to design various leaflets and posters to engage the public in Arabic, English, French and Somali. These were displayed in doctors surgeries, hospitals and community centres. This campaign image was later rolled out nationally.
Maisha / Real World Records
There is spirit and fire in the music of The Zawose Queens. There’s the vibrations of the ancestors, coming through on traditional instruments — soaring chizeze fiddle, buzzing illimba thumb piano, ngoma drums that chatter and thunder — and voices that go deep, high and out there.
Deliverables: LP sleeve, inner sleeve, milky clear vinyl & labels, download card, CD, 2 panel digi sleeve & 8 page booklet
Design & Custom Type: Derek Edwards for Patwa
Photography: Michael Mbwambo
Rethink Mental Illness is a charity that seeks to improve the lives of people severely affected by mental illness. Patwa was approached by the charity to design a leaflet to encourage people to step back and check in with themselves.
We produced a 250 x 250mm doubled sized leaflet that folded down to credit card size. Each side of the leaflet incorporates a different cover printed on card with illustrations created for feeling ok, or needing extra help. In addition to this, the leaflet lists examples of how we might feel with information of how to get help if required.
The leaflet was designed so each vertical fold worked as a column to help set the typography.
We helped Rethink with the sourcing of the paper stock and worked closely with the printers to ensure the leaflet folded correctly, without being too bulky, but robust enough to survive the wear and tear of daily wallet use.
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BFI – Film Audience Network
Patwa designed this logo for an initiative setup to find out what is happening across the UK’s BFI FAN wide programmes and projects. Their website www.the-bigger-picture.com showcases inspirational case studies of cinema innovation, articles and research.
Nothing in the Larder
Nubian Records
I was really honoured to work with Black Roots on this project. I was approached by them to work on their album Nothing In the Larder. Inspired by old handmade sound boxes and Rastafari, my aim was to create an image that felt natural, authentic and proud. I designed the vinyl, CD and digital artwork.
“With "Nothing In The Larder", Black Roots creates another original set of tracks and brings in some of the best musicians based in the UK. Together they bring a new sound, despite the narrow confines of roots reggae. The message is strong, coherent and relevant in today's world of pandemic inequality, racism and discrimination.”
Branding
Creative Workforce for the Future work with organisations keen to overcome the structural barriers that prevent under represented groups from thriving within the creative industry.
They offer a flexible and tailor made programme of professional development, focusing on inclusion for companies and paid internships for young people.
Patwa's role was to design a logo and set of basic guidelines for colour, layout and typography.
A part of the brief was to take inspiration from their partner; Bristol & Bath Creative R+D's branding. For this we took the 'X' from their logo, adapting it into an arrow to represent the future.
The programme's lead delivery partners – Bristol & Bath Creative R+D, UWE Bristol and Watershed
In 2017 the Go West report into Bristol’s television and Film industries identified that only 2.6% of freelancers in the industry identified as Black and Minority Ethnic.
Impact Report 2023
Babbasa empowers young people from ethnically diverse and less advantaged communities to move into work, education or business.
Patwa had the honour of designing their Impact Report for 2023. Incorporating the brand refresh and Babbasa 10 logo we also worked on.
"I'm pleased to introduce Babbasa’s Impact Report for 2022/23, a year in which we made some significant strides, growing our income from £553,100 to £912,622, but more importantly advancing 580 young people towards realising their professional ambitions through skills sessions, mentors, work experience and access to paid career-oriented employment opportunities."
Poku Osei – Founder and CEO
Indian Cuisine
Packaging, digital and branding for producers of award winning Indian cuisine. Food and design are inspired by the Indian hill stations, built for the wealthy British during the Raj and now enjoyed by young aspirational Indians. Combining a classic British aesthetic with a modern Indian twist.
Branding
Patwa had the honour of rebranding Black & Green Ambassadors. They specialise in; connecting, empowering & celebrating diverse leadership & community action on environmental issues in Bristol & beyond.
Colours
These are a series of colour themed designs produced to be handed out at trade shows. Each carrier contains a 12 page concertina that showcases pictures from AKG's picture library. Each package includes a die cut shape that corresponds to the colour theme of the concertina. We wanted to produce something that showcased the library in a interesting and portable way that would encourage people to collect all four.
Impact Report 2021-22
Patwa was hired to design this 12 page impact report for both digital use and print.
Voscur is the support and development agency for Bristol's voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector.
Voscur’s charitable objectives, work and programmes are targeted at improving the quality of life of individuals and local communities by enabling and strengthening the local organisations that serve them.
Rebecca Mear – Chief Executive Officer
Brian Aldiss
Set in the future where WMDs are replaced with LSD, Barefoot in the Head takes you on a colourful journey.
The cover which I shot and designed was in response to this passage from the book:
'Tasteless, odourless, colourless psychedelic drugs, which distort the minds of thousands of civilians into extreme terror or extreme joy'
African Music Event
This illustration was produced for an African music event, designed to work as an image campaign and logo. The main design influence came from the event itself, I wanted to express the raw rhythm, flow and beauty of the music.
NO B/S
NO B/S is a season of films celebrating black comedy. Presented by Come The Revolution and part of Comedy Genius - a nationwide celebration of comedy on screen, led by BFI, the Independent Cinema Office and BFI Film Audience, and was supported by funds from the National Lottery.
My brief was to design a poster and leaflet that captured the humour and spirit of the the event, whilst also creating an image that was both iconic, classic and memorable.
Branding
Rising Arts Agency is a community of young creatives aged 16–30 mobilising others for radical social, political and cultural change.
’Led by young creative thinkers, we empower people to collectively aspire, provoke and mobilise towards radical cultural change.’
They commissioned me to develop a new brand identity to reflect their core values. The project kicked off with a collaborative workshop with some of their creative community to help develop a manifesto and inform the creative approach - their input was integral to the design development process.
The end result was a brand reflecting their radical stance through a bold aesthetic that embodies a feel of movement, creativity and action. The logo is flexible and can be used to showcase the agency’s art, as well as work as a standalone.
The rebrand included; a workshop, mood boards, concepts boards and corporate guidelines.
Anniversaries
A6 wallet with ribbon that reveals 10 postcards celebrating key anniversaries. Postcards showcase photography, design and fine art taken from AKG's image library. I used my experience working with music festivals to source the manufacturing of the ribbon, which is a wristband without a clasp!
By Figure of Speech
Design meets rhyme.
My self-titled album, touching on race, identity and colonisation, in the backdrop of the covid pandemic and Black Lives Matter. This part spoken word, part rap narrative, intertwines timelines through historical events and my own lived experience. The musical scape created by Boca 45 is a deconstructed hip-hop score forming the heartbeat, tension and sometimes relief throughout the record.
The cover portraits are inspired by a project called Identity Matters, a series of photographs by Olumide Osinoiki, aimed to break racial stereotypes. I was lucky enough to get Olumide onboard for this LP.
We are donating the sales to Bristol Black Carers charity.
BFI FAN
Building on the success of exhibition industry conferences including This Way Up, the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN) launches FAN Conversations, a series of discussions designed to create and respond to the need for exchange amongst film exhibitors across the UK.
The logo and branding furniture for this project was an expansion of The Bigger Picture, which Patwa also designed for BFI FAN.
Brian Aldiss
Bizarre corporation Intangibles Inc. are represented by a small bespectacled man with a very long face, who travels about selling his product to people who don't really know what an intangible is but whose lives are gradually dominated by the presence of an Intangible in their homes.
This is one of thirty book jackets I’ve had the honour of designing for this sci-fi grandmaster.
Watershed
The Future Producers are a body setup by Bristol Watershed to help nurture young peoples development within the film industry. I devised a logo that was constructed in such a way so the layered elements could be broken down and used for branding furniture on the website.
Touched
This crime novel which I designed the jacket for is about a man who stalks a female celebrity. Not knowing if he is real he takes a polaroid of himself in the mirror, the picture eventually revealing the truth. The book describes the picture slowly appearing and the flash of the camera which I incorporated into the design.
Branding
Beyond We is a new black arts venue, which will be located on a barge in the Bristol Harbour.
The logomark which combines a B and W takes inspiration from architecture, the harbour and African art.
40 Year Anniversary Album
‘WOMAD 1982: In Somerset a festival of new and traditional arts from four continents and 20 countries came together for the first time. Real World Studios 2021: 40 years later the process of restoring the audio tapes of that original festival have revealed vital and historic performances. This album is a window onto highlights of three days of amazing music.’
My brief was to design the CD and LP artwork inspired by the 1982 Womad programme, together with recreating the original poster for the event. We delved into the archives to pullout what we could find, doing a bit of restoration on the way! We went for a gloss finish for that 80s look and used a metallic gold for the typography on the cover.
The LP: Double album, gatefold, printable inner sleeves.
CD: 3 panel digi, double CD, 16 page booklet.
Music Festival
Commissioned by Smith&Milton, this is one of a series of t-shirts I designed for Larmer Tree Festival. Combining the festival's association with peacocks and music, this was quite a fun job to work on – although I did feel a bit dizzy working with this image after a bit!
Power by RIFE
The Meshworks newsletter is a one easy place to find the best jobs, support and industry masterclasses every month for emerging creatives.
I was commissioned by RIFE to design the logo, mailer, social media assets and a set of icons.
Watershed
This identity was designed for an initiative to spark debate with film audiences. Mark Cosgrove at Watershed sums it up well:
“I think about film more as the start of a dialogue rather than as the escapist form of entertainment with which it has become identified.”
The identity was used on promotional material including posters, websites and discussion cards for feedback after screenings.
Brand Identity
This branding project was designed for a Manchester based organisation set-up to celebrate Afro-Caribbean culture through music and the arts. Formed to inspire, educate and bring together the local and wider community.
Music and Arts Festival
Branding Shambala for the 2011 festival, I came up with the campaign 'Join The Cause', promoting the festival as movement. This was rolled out across merchandise, tickets, leaflets, press, posters, programmes and online. The campaign was also adapted to work with Sustrans, who partnered up with Shambala and organised several bike rides from different locations to the festival, it was called 'Join The Ride'.
Music and Arts Festival
Inspired by old letterpress posters, this design made up the festival identity for 2004. On a earlier draft the typographic approach was more random, I decided to amend this when a couple of bands dropped out and it became a real puzzle! I devised a grid system so that if another band dropped out it would only effect the square it lived in. I also implemented this design on adverts, merchandise, programmes and tickets.
Watershed
Identity design for international archive film programme taking place in Bristol and the surrounding region. In association with Independent Cinema Office (ICO), South West Silents and 20th Century Flicks.
Branding
Mojakid is a clothing label that breaks down barriers and celebrates the vibrancy and power of diversity.
My brief was to create a logo and set of guidelines that helped reflect this. My approach was to create a set of bespoke letter forms for the logo that were friendly and fun, together with a stand alone symbol from the M for the social media profile image.
Watershed
Patwa created the branding for Afrofuturism, an event experience hosted at Bristol's Watershed. Show casing the black experience through sci-fi via film, music and art. A place where space, pyramids, funk and politics collide.
I designed a cohesive logo and illustration style in which I took influence from Sun Ra's visual aesthetic of Africa, space and empowerment, this was used across print and online to promote the event.
Music and Arts Festival
This poster was designed for the Womad festival in the Spanish city of Cáceres. I designed a coat of arms, relating to it being an old fortress town. I incorporated references from both the local proximity i.e storks that nest the roofs and the city wall and also musical aspects. This was implemented across festival collateral, including a very nice grey t-shirt which I love wearing!
Real World Records
This is the cover for a DVD I designed celebrating 15 years of music videos at Real World Records. For this design I played with the colour bar system Peter Saville designed (which is usually solid blocks), instead I took to the canvas with a paintbrush and let the bars drip randomly to convey a feeling of movement and spontaneity. This concept was also used on the cover of the Real World Records catalogue.
The Family / Real World Records
I was commissioned by Real World Records to design this concept album for Joseph. Each song coming from the perspective of a different family member and composed on a Steinway that was owned by one family for 100 years. Inspired by the theme of the album I created artwork that was part journal – part photo album.
Photography & paintings:
Joseph Arthur
Experiential Design
I wanted to created a mark that was iconic, playful, architectural and that could be adapted to reflect the materials used in exhibitions. The wood texture used here can be swopped out i.e to fabric, leather, light, water etc.
Diam / Real World Records
Mauritanian artist Daby came to the Real World studio in Wiltshire for the photoshoot, where I was working at the time. I managed to capture this image on camera, not being a photographer I was quite pleased. The photo was rough around the edges but perfect for the music and theme of the album. Daby was living in Paris and I wanted to touch on that urban aspect, but also show a reflective calmness in reaction to the title 'Diam', meaning peace.
The Colours you see / Naim Records
This was a great project to work on from the outset. Having really strong photography by Sylvain Gripoix and the band and label giving me freedom to explore was a bonus. It was one of those jobs that naturally came together. My approach was to let the photography speak for itself by looking at crops that focused on interesting textures and colour, together with typography that worked in harmony.
From Bandcamp page:
”Award-winning composer and pianist, Gauthier Toux is ready to deliver his newest body of work, ‘The Colours You See’, a carefully considered and introspective jazz journey”
LISTEN TO MUSIC
Never Trust A Hippy /
Real World Music
NTAH, which is an acronym for Never Trust A Hippy, is a dub influenced album released on Real World Records. The artwork which includes several photographs branded with the NTAH logo, displays how nothing is sacred and all can be sold!
