Alex Szabo-Haslam

Official tour posters commissioned for the band’s 2023 homecoming shows on Friday 09/06/22 and Saturday 10/06/23 in Sheffield.

These are silkscreen printed with gloss vinyl ink onto mirrored metallic and highly reflective paper, signed, and numbered — edition of 600 for each day.

All prints sold out quickly on the day.

Waveform is a series of unique, one-off artworks visualising soundwaves generated by music. Each track is output by hand, printed onto museum quality cotton paper using pigment inks, then signed and marked with a custom embossing stamp.

Launched on Kickstarter in 2019.
Photography by Hannah Soar.

The Maker{Futures} programme provides resources and support for a wide range of organisations community spaces seeking to develop their maker education and makerspace provision.

With nine strands including a mobile makerspace, early years settings, libraries, and museums, I was commissioned by the Research Enterprise Manager for Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences at The University of Sheffield to create an identity system bringing everything together.

The branding rollout includes stationery, vehicle livery, clothing, bags, a website, interior wall panels, pull-up banners, flyers and brochures.

Logo created in collaboration with Jon Cannon.

Cross and Cross Catalyst are ESRC funded programmes run by the University of Sheffield’s faculty of Social Sciences.

Intended to help researchers and academic staff seek new pathways with the research, and create commercially viable ventures with greater impact to help society. The programmes is advertised to throughout the university.

I created a suite of colour-coded digital and printed materials to promote the programme. The design includes a series of fully-solvable mazes, which are used to badge events and locations throughout.

Anyone who has ever spent more than five minutes in my company knows I’m no fan of the Conservatives. But even by their usual standards, the current crop takes some beating. Bored of Boris is a frustrated kick at this utter shambles of a Tory government, led by the deluded narcissist and compulsive liar Boris Johnson.

A rebrand and rollout of brochures for Theatre Delicatessen (now known as Theatre Deli), a collective providing performance space and disruptive arts events in Sheffield and London.

Theatre Deli were fond of the cleaver in their old logo, but recognised it needed to change. However, while stripping back the old logo to its bare essentials, I noticed the words left a familiar shape — with the old cleaver hinted at in the new identity.

Each of Theatre Deli's venues is colour-coded with its own dedicated programme of events collated in brochure form.

Identity and branding in partnership with James Lowe.

Migration Matters is a five-day festival, which takes place in Sheffield during Refugee Week, celebrating diversity and the positive impact of immigration.

Citee is a collection of map T-shirts, launched on Kickstarter in 2015 and 2016. The collection has grown to over 300 designs, and every shirt is individually made to order using dye sublimation print processes.

Photography by Ellie Grace.

Using OpenStreetMap data each T-shirt displays a beautifully-crafted map. Each design is printed on a comfortable and lightweight, 100% Polyester, premium quality t-shirt made by American Apparel. These super-soft unisex T-shirts ensure deep and bold colours, which won't fade in the wash (just machine wash cold and hang dry). Each highly-detailed map is sublimation dyed all over the front of the T-shirt – including seams and sleeves, while the back is white. Unlike silkscreen-printed clothing, there is no stiffness to the printed area.

A series of colourful, limited edition artworks visualising the discographies of various artists. The length of each coloured bar relates to the track time from a specific track on each album, meaning no two discographies appear the same.

First edition prints: Aphex Twin; Autechre; Boards of Canada; Chemical Brothers; Daft Punk; Depeche Mode; Kraftwerk; Leftfield; LFO; Massive Attack; New Order; Nine Inch Nails; Orbital; Portishead; The Prodigy; Radiohead.

Launched on Kickstarter: view campaign

Available from the store

Tramlines Festival is an annual music takeover over Sheffield. With a mix of local, national and international artists, Tramlines takes place at several venues across the city.

Working with brand guidelines from Peter & Paul, I created the festival programme – a guide to all events taking place across the weekend.

Created while freelancing at Peter & Paul, Sheffield. Branding and art direction by Peter & Paul.

Launched in 1991 by Richard D. James and Grant Wilson-Claridge, Rephlex Records is a British, independent music label that publishes some of the most inventive and influential contemporary electronic music around.

I produced a full colour homage to the label in the shape of a comprehensive discography, which featured original photography, artworks and an exhaustive list of releases from Rephlex Records' artists, featuring: Aphex Twin; Bogdan Raczysnki; DMX Krew; Cylob; Luke Vibert; The Tuss; and Ceephax Acid Crew.

The discography was printed on various paper stocks, each having unique tactile qualities. The finished discography was hand-sewn, with silver foil stamped onto a rubber cover.

Augur is a decentralized prediction market platform built on the Ethereum blockchain. Working alongside Augur’s art director, I reworked dozens of screens using Figma by adopting updated brand elements — to act as a bridge between the existing version and the new platform before launch.

Art direction by Matt Bullock at Augur

Promotional brochure for B&B Press, marking the arrival of their new LED UV print press. I used vibrant photography from NASA and the European Southern Observatory to show off their capabilities.

Created in partnership with Emma Molloy at MAR Associates.

Sheffield Hallam University has a long and proud history, and welcomes students from across the UK — and all over the world. Sheffield Hallam University International have several offices — China, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan — supporting and advising students in their journey.

In tandem with James Lowe I work closely with SHU International producing posters, folders, banners and presentation documents — sometimes in multiple languages — for courses and events across the world.

I also produce materials for SHU International's Global Engagement Conference.

Contains work created while freelancing at Peter & Paul, Sheffield.

A series of invites, folders, delegate list and a 72-page city guide created for the Children's Media Conference.

Every year, over a thousand delegates from industries developing, producing and distributing content to children gather at venues across Sheffield. The Children's Media Conference provides networking opportunities and events with great speakers.

The challenge each year was to refresh the brand, creating content for a range of marketing and promotional material that engages and provokes delegates. For the 2015 conference I used a series of symbols referencing each event, and worked on the project from beginning to end — including production.

Created while Design Director at TruthStudio, Sheffield.

A series of invites, folders and a 64-page city guide created for the Children's Media Conference.

Every year, over a thousand delegates from industries developing, producing and distributing content to children gather at venues across Sheffield. The Children's Media Conference provides networking opportunities and events with great speakers.

The challenge each year was to refresh the brand, creating content for a range of marketing and promotional material that engages and provokes delegates. For the 2013 conference I produced a series of quotes — each displayed with energetic and flowing typography.

Created while Design Director at TruthStudio, Sheffield.

Symbol for the Free FreeHand organisation.

After Adobe Systems acquired Macromedia, many FreeHand users were a little upset. In trying to portray the company as pirates, I created a symbol for use on a series of postcards. There's something hiding in there...

A set of greetings cards and limited edition screen prints bearing the club's famous rally-cry, The Greasy Chip Butty Song, along with other chants heard at the very best — and worst — football matches.

A2 screen prints: red and white ink on 270gsm Colourplan by GFSmith.

Greetings card: red and silver foil stamped onto duplexed Ebony / Ice White 300gsm Colourplan from GFSmith.

Sheffield arts and entertainment magazine. Editorial by Fraser Bayes and Alex Szabo-Haslam. Interviews and additional content contributed by Jon Cannon, Jamie Headcharge, Ralph Razor, Squink, No Fixed Abode and more.

Four colour offset-litho printed on 130gsm Ultragloss, with perfect-bound spine and 10,000 copies distributed.

Techno and electronic music event playing host to: Altern8; Surgeon; DJ Rephlex Records; Andrea Parker; Smashback; Synapse; Jerome Hill; Chevron; Sheffield Bleep. Also with residents from: Tinnitus; C90; Dirty Cheese; Room 303.

The flyer featured a custom-made dot-matrix typeface, which we also turned into a lightbox for inside the club.

Photography by Alex Szabo-Haslam and Matt Bullock at various locations throughout Sheffield.

Four colour offset-litho alcohol-free ink printed on 300gsm Revive 100% recycled pulp.

A series of limited edition silkscreen-printed artworks and cards – complete with a foil-stamped box.

Part of a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, several posters sold out quickly.

Great Minds on Kickstarter.

Remaining Great Minds prints are available from the store.

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Prints
Size: A2 (42x59cm / 16.5x23 inches) 
Ink: white and various colours
Paper: 270gsm Ebony Colorplan by GF Smith

Cards
Size: A6 (10.5 x 14.8cm / 4.1 x 5.8") 
Ink: 4-colour process and silver foil
Paper: 300gsm Zen by GF Smith 

Beginning life as an illustration for a client, this typographic design went onto become a silkscreen print – and inform the direction of another crowdfunding campaign.

A series of limited edition, gold and silver foil-stamped prints for lovers of indoor climbing, bouldering and Helvetica.

I've been making artwork and prints for around 12 years. I do a little bouldering and indoor climbing too. One day, walking around a local climbing centre, I thought: 'Wouldn't it be cool to make a poster using climbing holds?' 

Get a Grip depicts over 300 climbing holds — each painstakingly drawn from studies of footholds, jugs, slopers, crimps, pockets and volumes — intricately set in Helvetica. 

The limited edition foil prints come in a choice of silver and gold, stamped onto shades of Colorplan stock by GF Smith.

Get a Grip posters are available in the store.

For Fit's Sake is a new brand causing a stir in the protein powder world. Run by Jenna McCormick, For Fit's Sake supplies recipes, information and protein supplements to help keep fit.

My job was to create an easy-to-manage website for Jenna, which she uses for selling products and blogging to her community.

Visit website:
www.forfitssake.uk

Branding by James Lowe
Photography by Nick Eagle