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Graphic & Illustrative Designer

Specialising in Print Media, Interactive, Audio Visual, Branding and Place Making, Celebrating 30 years experience with over 450 projects in the global public domain. This is what good design looks like.

The Toby Process

Showreel of Toby Tinsley design work spanning branding, packaging and livery artwork

Built different.

 

Building brands from nothing, rebuilding brands that lost their way, and sharpening brands that didn’t know what they stood for.

 

The depth of experience isn’t decorative. It means a brief will be read quickly, you’ll be asked the right questions - without the months of discovery theatre that agencies build into their timelines and fees. Toby’s work is seen all over the world, consistently and seemlessly blending into the lives of millions. Its not extraordinary. Its far from ordinary

Deliberate disruption.

 

Working differently by design. Toby takes the brief. Toby does the work. Simple.

 

No account handlers, no handoffs, no layers between your problem and Toby solving it. Scaling up or focusing in depending on what the project needs - either solo or bringing in his strategic and creative freelancers, thinkers and global creative guru’s, and nothing else. It’s a faster, better value and more effective way to work

Graphic design layout combining illustration, typography and image, from a 30-year retrospective

One of the major skill sets which takes years to master, requiring excellence in multiple areas; illustration, typography, layout, visual impact to name a few.

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Lanzante brand identity applied across the 95-59 motorsport programme

The core of visual communication - the emotional connection between the product and the consumer. 

Brand loyal or mix it up? This is visual persuasion

on another level.

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Detailed illustration artwork created for Ronart, 2024

What came first - the letter or the sketch? We have been communicating via drawing for millions of years. From ultra realism to abstract, illustration is

the border between art and design.

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Frame from an animated Guinness audio visual sequence

They say a comsumer take 2.3 seconds to decide on a purchase in a supermarket. How do you keep

a consumers attention for 1 minute? Moving graphics and audio. Story telling in motion.

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Airport terminal wayfinding signage directing passengers through the concourse

Ever got lost in an airport? How do you navigate a city? Design in our environments is invisible yet critial

to our daily lives. We couldn’t exist as

we do today without it.

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Packaging design presented on mounted boards

Minimum real-estate for all the information. All the brands together on a shelf competing for your purchase visually screaming PICK ME! Welcome

to the elbows out arena.

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Apparel graphic printed onto a garment

Is the design good enough to hang on your wall, let alone wear it? Apparel blurs the boundaries between fashion, branding, culture and trend setting.

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Helm interactive configurator interface showing vehicle customisation options

Want to see the car you’re buying in orange or black? Maybe change the alloys whilst you’re at it. Digital

design creates entire showrooms, entertainment, online purchasing all driven by your perosnal choices.

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Marketing campaign artwork from a 30-year retrospective of Toby Tinsley's work

How does your brand reach your customers? How do you tell everyone there is 10% off? Marketing, the

engagement arm of design.

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Lanzante 95-59 carrying its bespoke livery and custom typeface, photographed by Luc Lacey

Our entire world is designed around transport. It was actually the horse which is responsible for inventing the road. Today, automotive offers a world of

beautifully crafted design, both form and function

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Social media poster graphic designed for digital feeds

Pushing your brand to a wider audience through digital comms. Social media - 5.8 billion people have a mobile device, do they find you, or you're competition first?

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Editorial book spread showing typography and image layout across facing pages

The birth of the internet was supposed to be the end of print. It failed, thankfully. Books are keep-safes, last forever, and document time. Editorial is not ephemeral, its beautiful.

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Poster design from a 30-year retrospective of Toby Tinsley's work

The designers creative canvas where anything goes. Eye-catching, memorable and cultural. They don’t last

forever - a one shot opportunity for explosive design.

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Identity work presented across a set of 50x40cm posters, 2024

The benchmark of brand loyalty. The symbol of everything your company stands for. Logos: shapes designed for story-telling

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F79 custom typeface showing its full character set

You learn to write as a child. Your hand-writing is your own personal typeface. Brands have them too.

Typography: The art of 26 Letters

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Design of Epic Performance

A rare and bold livery design study, only on concept vehciles, and the livery may come off, but the cars become a reality.

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Ever got lost in an airport? How do you navigate a city? Design in our

environments is invisible yet critial to our daily lives. We couldn’t exist as

we do today without it.

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The iconic Y-motif appears across modern supercars like the Revuelto, Sián, and Temerario in headlights, taillights, and cabin layouts to deliver a futuristic, jet fighter-inspired look, now realised through interior graphics.

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Packaging

Minimum real-estate for all the information. All the brands together on a shelve competing for your purchase visually screaming PICK ME! Welcome

to the elbows out arena.

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Apparel

Is the design good enough to hang on your wall, let alone wear it? Apparel

blurs the boundaires between fashion, branding, culture and trend setting.

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