2023

Fabian Maxwell Drake

www.maxwelldrake.uk

Fabian Maxwell Drake is a designer, animated storyteller, researcher, and aspiring storyboard artist.

Primarily focusing on storytelling he aims to show the versatility of 2D animation and the use of storyboarding and narration within and beyond animated media. Additionally, he researches the history of TV animation and the evolution of its narratives and visual styles to help craft better stories for new audiences.

His design practice aims to reinvent branding and identity as tools of visual legacy, as well as highlight how meaning can be explored through publications and typography.

Fabian is a member of the Royal Television Society, and the British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies. He holds certifications from the Polish Film Institute and Central Saint Martins.

Homebound: An Immersive Animated Experience

Intended as a part of an immersive exhibition this animated short explores nostalgia through its visual style reminiscent of CRT TVs and old video games as well as through its narrative. The story follows a character exploring their own nostalgia and through some surprising setbacks realising that his memories aren’t as good as he perceived them to be, learning that nostalgia is only a reminder of our past and not something we can feasibly rely our happiness on.

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Cartoonito: Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends

A reimagining of the original show as a preschool cartoon. Core elements have been maintained but given a fresh visual style appropriate for the new audience with a bigger emphasis on unique colours and child-like appearance. The new logo carries the signature “Foster’s” type and uses a playful font appropriate for print and screen, while all backgrounds have been inspired by crayon drawings made by children.

It has a versatile set of outcomes: an advertising poster alongside a short storyboard. They can be used during the show’s initial pitch in the form of posters, as well as handed to the executives as leaflets. The advertising poster has additional flexibility for commercial purposes.

Manifesto on NewPositivism

A publication that connects old philosophical concepts with their modern examples present on the Internet. Through its focus on typography, it aims to showcase how the past and the future can connect in forming a “newpositivism” – a positive, curious, and open blend of complex philosophies and approachable social media posts. Culminating in its own manifesto, newpositivism highlights the constant evolution of philosophy and the struggle to keep it contemporarily relevant in a technology-based society.

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