Oliver Vanes


Render Showreel

The following page is a cut of varying renders and animations completed for the Gemba brand over the past 4 years. Joining the company at a time with a limited set of brand guidelines meant the need for the aesthetic of the embyronic brand to grow and evolve over time.The result is a wealth of content made after my intention to pivot the brand away from stock imagery and onto a Cinema 4D workflow. This allowed the creation of almost anything and the ability to represent difficult intangible concepts into attractive simulations and visual metaphors.


2017 - 2022
Oliver Vanes - Art Direction, Design
Bethan Wegener - Design, Modelling
Hannah Bivand - Modelling, Design






Altered Realities Exhibition

Identity design for the exhibition of Altered Realities held at the Lethaby Gallery. Altered Realities was a reactionary exhibition exploring and coming to terms with the incredibly turbulent year of 2016, through politics, technology and beyond.

The identity took inspiration from Jean Baudrillard‘s Simulacra and Simulation, intending to place a flag on the timeline of events in 2016 and the map of Baudrillard’s precession of simulacra.

A clashing serif and sans-serif logo was created alongside a set of animated posters, videos and a map.


Branding, Print Design
2017






Assorted Artworks

A selection of posters, album covers and show artwork through my time designing for artists, musicians, DJs as well as the various artists broadcasting across Radar Radio.                
Print Design
2015 - Present





Permanent

Exploratory investigation into the traditional customer journey of the clubbing experience. This manifested in a complete brand package delivered primarily through an app that did away with traditional UX/UI patterns and instead explored a tab style format. By looking at potential weak areas within the user journey and then reinforcing those touch points with new ideas, a more coherent and positive journey was created. The result was a feature rich app, poster series and range of dynamic logos.


Branding, App Design
2017






After-Internet Manual

An ironic manual envisaging a future in which the Internet has ceased to exist. The content relying on the very thing it is replacing. The manual takes aesthetic inspiration from early 90s typography and advertising, as well as internet browsers through the ages. Help comes from the remarkable WikiHow.com articles and how to deal with the five stages of grief in life post-Internet .


Editorial Design
2017






Textures and Architectures of Google Earth

A short side project exploring the updated Google Earth. The result is a small publication of architectural photography and textures that can be found across the world.


Editorial Design, Photography
2017






Neighborhood

 Branding for the Singaporean agency Neighborhood.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Branding, Graphic Design
2017






Envisaging the Future of Hyperreality

Dissertation exploring the idea that we may be heading towards a new intersection of hyperreality through the combination of incredible technological development and a ever decreasing need for the real, both politically, virtually and physically.

It traces the steps from the pioneers of early VR, through to current day mixed reality capabilities and the development Umberto Eco’s traditional definition of hyperreality and how that may be evolving.

Physical and digital representation combine through printing on handmade recycled paper and an inner augmented reality enhancement of the inner pages.                                                                                                                                                                                          
Branding, Graphic Design
2017