Designing for the End - MA Live Brief, 2024

Designing for the End was my main project for the second trimester of the MA Design (Illustration), created in response to a live brief working with St Luke’s Hospice - a Sheffield-based charity offering palliative care and support.

I used illustration to explore how we talk about death and grief today, drawing from historical mourning practices like memento mori and Victorian keepsakes, while reworking them through a more personal, playful, and contemporary lens. The project reflects my interest in sentimentality, symbolism, and the emotional weight of physical objects, particularly at a time when digital memorials are becoming more common.

By making tactile, hand-crafted pieces - from greetings cards and paintings to jewellery and pocket shrines - I wanted to create things that carry memory in lasting, material ways.