Simon C Page
87 // Simon C Page is a UK-based designer who studied Applied Mathematics and taught himself design. His work is inspired by science, space, science fiction and nature. Simon’s philosophy is that there are a lot of elements that make up good design, but his motto has always been ‘Good design excites’. Clients have included Apple, Google and the New York Times. Going forward, Simon hopes to work on more large-scale projects, such as shop displays, billboards and posters for the sides of buildings. He would also love to design the title sequence for a Hollywood science- fiction film or an album cover for Daft Punk.
Design Heroes: Saul Bass, Anton Stankowski, Herbert Bayer
Vertigo
Representing the sensation of vertigo through a distorted eye, this is a poster that Simon was commissioned to create for the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Vertigo.
Star Lapse
Occasionally Simon will use computer processing to create more complex pieces, like this design featuring concentric circles with broken lines.
Layers
A series of transparent triangles overlap and in turn create diamond shapes and stripes in this perfectly balanced composition.
Crystal
Simon’s ‘Crystal’ is a master class in gradients – this design looks as though it were created with an airbrush. All of the pieces featured here were digitally created, usually with Adobe Illustrator, with finishing touches in Photoshop.
Colour Wheel
A rainbow of transparent ellipses radiates out from a centre, producing a huge spectrum of shades. A thin white outline separates the colours.
Cuben Array
‘Cuben’ is the name of a series of Simon’s poster art designs. Simon realized that if you remove the sides from a drawing of a three-dimensional cube, you will be left with a hexagon. It is very difficult to fool the eye into thinking an outlined hexagon is actually a 3D cube. However, if you stack a number of them on top of each other in varying sizes, colours, gradients, blends and opacity in a certain way, you can achieve the effect of 3D cubes.