Every picture I look at, each figurative painting I study, every scene that absorbs me – I’m aware that a certain invention of story occurs. I can’t help it, it’s what happens automatically in my head. I wonder who the people might be, or...
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Soon after completing an MA (1993-1995), I considered (fantasised about) embarking on a visual research PhD. I snooked into handful of early group meetings, as an ‘observer’, and so wanted to greedily gobble a few more years of critically engaged, practice discussion, dialogue and debate....
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Each painting measures 1 metre x 1 metre, acrylic on canvas. I. The Summer of The Three Investigators. Balanced on the threshold of realisation. II. People will Think we’re Twins, or They Know of Us, but They Don’t Know Us. Voyeuristically we watch the...
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Rachael Adams is an artist, predominantly a painter. Soon after graduating from Brighton (Fine Art, Painting) in 1986, she expanded her practice to include typography, photography and graphic digital media. The subject matter of her work focuses on the social, class and personal labyrinths...
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The Abhorred Shears: The Baracuta G9 Studying the face in such a large scale, offers the viewer the opportunity to watch the sleeping (or dead) man. He is the age that his own father died – he is conscious of this. The Fates (or...
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Mopping is an interesting chore – unlike the act of sweeping, or vacuuming, it requires working backwards. The motion is an industrious sashay, which involves the use of the bottom or hips to work open a door or push aside an obstacle. I take...
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Ideas in the form of a written list Mimesis Mimesis is a critical and philosophical term that carries a wide range of meanings, which include: imitation, representation, mimicry, the act of resembling, the act of expression, and the presentation of the self. Mimesis has...
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Point at a Deer and Call it a Horse He shuts his eyes as cotton wool balls are thrown at his face. Based on the Asch Conformity Experiments. In the basic Asch paradigm it can be demonstrated that the power of conformity in groups...
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Scrutineer’s Investigation into Narrative Project #001: Schematic Sequence A Fine Art Project made up of 49 canvasses, each measuring 1 metre x 1 metre. The Artist seeks validation through a process of reason and example. The construction of a narrative through a series of single images....
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Cheeseburger Porn Props Client: Garry Castleman Nick Stuart and the Federales Client: Nick Stuart & Garry Castleman Nick Stuart and the Federales Demo GIMP Client: Garry Castleman Tweet
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West Terrace Dental Practice This Eastbourne Dental Practice required a site which could be updated and edited easily and swiftly. The Scrutineer designed and prepared a site which gave staff access to a ‘Dashboard’, where they can view their site Statistics and update their...
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Movies to GoGo was a DVD Delivery business in Brighton -- launched before the likes of LoveFilm! The collection was more Indie Film Club than BlockBuster, and had a fantastic membership… To join, you were encouraged to get a bit ‘noir-ish’, slide into the...
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Rachael Adams: Designer, Illustrator, Archivist, Website Creator and A Best Chum to Mr Watkin Sadly, the remaining copies of David’s autobiography were destroyed after probate to his estate was granted. Designed, produced and published by Scrutineer’s. Preface: David Watkin’s life has been an uncanny...
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I Do, I Can More animations will be uploaded soon. Tweet
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A1 Sized Map for Film Lovers Created in 1995 as an M.A. project to re-categorise film genres. A guide to broaden film viewing, and explore themes as diverse as flared trousers and certain awesome flights of steps… The Scrutineer offers this guide for a...
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Commissioned during the Construction of St Pancras International… Short animated film commissioned by the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Written, directed & animated by The Scrutineer Scrutineer’s, in association with CORBER, URN & RLE, present a short history of the station commonly known as St...
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Paul Davidson Taylor The Scrutineer designed a website for this Sussex based legal practice. This was a map in their ‘contact us’ section. Client: Paul Davidson Taylor The Scrutineer creates a lot of maps; site maps and actual maps. Here are some more examples...
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The Blair Effect 2001-5 The Scrutineer designed the press invitation for the Anthony Seldon & Dennis Kavanagh book, published by Cambridge University Press, September 2005. As the book was a ‘report’ of the second term of the Blair government, by a notable headmaster, it...
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Garden Walk, Hoxton, EC1 At the close of 2003, Garden Walk won the ‘City Life’ category in the annual HotProperty awards. This development consists of 23 high spec., contemporary, one and two bedroom apartments and penthouse in the heart of the Shoreditch triangle. The...
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The Scrutineer designed (and continues to design), a series of DVD sleeves for this series of London Transport archive films, many of which were shot by Oscar winning cinematographer David Watkin. Client: Barry Coward, Beulah Yesterday’s Britain No.30 – The London Bus Yesterday’s Britain...
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The Scrutineer’s Film Chart for ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ US, 1958, 108m, Metrocolor, MGM/Avon, directed by Richard Brooks. Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, & Burl Ives. The Scrutineer’s Film Chart for this film reveals a portrayal of family conflict in layers and...
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Logo to letterhead… The Scrutineer has designed many a logo, many a letterhead – websites; invoice pads, labels, t-shirts, signage etcetera etcetera etcetera… allfruity was a website with a fruity content… it didn’t get beyond visuals, unfortunately – but we liked the lip-smacking, mouth-watering...
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Being an Autobiography of David Watkin Text from the jacket flap: Autobiography of one of the greatest living cinematographers still working today. Full of life, energy and attitude. Published by subscription with the support of the many luminaries with whom he has worked. The...
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Banter & Bustle was reviewed in The Telegraph by Andrew Baker, saying of Jeff Scott: “(Banter & Bustle)…will also one day fascinate football historians. He has photographed Sunderland fans, home and away, but the book should appeal beyond supporters of the Black Cats. He...
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When Methanol require a book designed, along with it’s cover, the publicity, the display stands that are dragged round the speedway tracks of Britain – Rachael’s called… Showered in Shale One man’s circuitous journey throughout the country in pursuit of a minor obsession –...
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Shale Britannia: a Sideways Glance at Speedway A Poignant Photography book by Jeff Scott, who teamed up with designer and fine artist Rachael Adams to produce a unique pictorial record of British speedway. Waves of nostalgia regularly sweep our cultural lives, as we search...
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A series of animated screen designs produced for Avid Technology. Client: Andrew Mason, Periscope Projects Tweet
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Screenshots of an early Flashy driven web-sight… Tweet
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The Illustra Guide: Browser and Marketing Material Developed as a browser, with software specific to particular areas of industry. A series of books was also produced with the publisher Kogan Page. The guides were accompanied by a CD-ROM – all of which The Scrutineer...
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Adobe Photoshop 2.5, running on a Apple Macintosh IIsi in early 1994 Who can fondly remember scanning a dozen images, mucking about in Photoshop – drawing with a a rollerball mouse and then attempting to save the ART all to a single floppy disc?...
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Berlei Bra Micro-Website Design Pitch for a flashy site produced in the heady days of 1999… Tweet
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A series of six posters for use off the shop floor. Waitrose Partners were to be encouraged to exercise some common sense whilst working in the store front, delivery bays and warehouse… The point-of-view used in each photograph was that of the accident prone...
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The Scrutineer designed a series of six posters for use off the Shop-Floor in Waitrose brancehs throughout the country, The Client was Brighton based multimedia production company Partners WM, who specialise in the production of training and internal communication products for Waitrose. The Scrutineer...
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The Scrutineer designed a series of six posters for use in Waitrose stores throughout the country. They were displayed behind the scenes, in storerooms, warehouses, canteens and staff common rooms. Commissioned by Brighton based multimedia production company Partners WM, who specialised in the production...
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The Scrutineer designed this ‘complete gift service’ website for Tara Thacker at Idlewild, a small independent gift shop in Brighton’s Seven Dials. Client: Tara Thacker, Idlewild Entrepreneur Tweet
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The Scrutineer designed this poster for director Emma Mortstedt and producer Nancy Barry, for their short film. By incredible chance, Master Frank Adams Brown, (the Scrutineer tea-boy) starred in this! Client: Emma Mortstedt Tweet
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The Scrutineer designed this intranet site as an on-line directory for this Governmental Office Annual Report 1999/2000 Client: Chris Lord, Graphic Detail Tweet
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The Scrutineer designed screens for Hewlett Packard’s intranet, training CD-Roms + packaging, SellDesktop campaign, annual sales conferences, (logo’s, powerpoint slides & marketing material) and presentations CD-Rom disk artwork With illustration by the trusty Mister Goodyer Desktop Manageability CD-Rom cover artwork Design and print-buying Sales...
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SellDesktop website The Scrutineer designed screens for Hewlett Packard’s intranet, training CD-Roms + packaging, SellDesktop campaign, annual sales conferences, (logo’s, powerpoint slides & marketing material) and presentations Tweet
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HP Corporate Business CD-Rom The Scrutineer designed screens for Hewlett Packard’s intranet, training CD-Roms + packaging, SellDesktop campaign, annual sales conferences, (logo’s, powerpoint slides & marketing material) and presentations Tweet
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HP Desktop PC Launch CD-Rom The Scrutineer designed screens for Hewlett Packard’s intranet, training CD-Roms + packaging, SellDesktop campaign, annual sales conferences, (logo’s, powerpoint slides & marketing material) and presentations Tweet
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Wins of Change 2000 CD-Rom Design of navigation & screens. The Scrutineer designed screens for Hewlett Packard’s intranet, training CD-Roms + packaging, SellDesktop campaign, annual sales conferences, (logo’s, powerpoint slides & marketing material) and presentations. Tweet
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This was the site design for SPRU, an innovative technologies site produced in 2000. The following screens are from The Scrutineer’s working PSDs, designed and provided for the programming team (headed by Colin Dixon of Illustra) based at The Innovation Centre at The University...
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