Chris Hannah
// Art Director
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Skills:
Highly skilled in Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, Indesign. Proficient in Motion Graphics.
Bio:
Basically, I love being creative. An ‘ideas person’, if you like. By day I work in Advertising as Senior Art Director at Clayton Graham Communications, by night I’m a freelance book designer (plus anything else that comes my way).
These past 5 years, I’ve developed, designed and directed my ideas (and those of our team) into a wide portfolio of creative work. I will continue to this until I have done something worth resting on my laurels about.
Contact me if you have anything you think someone like me could help you with – or indeed, someone like you could help me with.
Death of a Ladies' Man
Role: Art Direction and Design
Author: Alan Bissett
Publisher: Hachette Scotland
Brief: Death of a Ladies’ Man was the third novel from Alan Bissett – one of Scotland’s leading contemporary fiction writers. As it was a stand alone piece of fiction, the brief was open to my own creative direction.
Result: The book has appeared in a number of high profile publications, including Esquire, Grazia and The List.
URL: http://chrishannah.co.uk/work/book-covers/death-of-a-ladies-man/
Audi-screenshot
Role: Concept, Art Direction & endline copy
Client: The Lomond Audi Group
Brief: To produce a 30 second commercial to highlight that Edinburgh Audi had changed ownership, and locations, to a new state-of-the-art centre. It was to acknowledge the fact that the previous incarnation had a poor reputation and that the new centre was to be a ‘new dawn’ for the dealership.
End Result: My concept was to highlight the time spent on the whole customer experience, whilst also showcase the aesthetics of the centre. By using the time-lapse effect you’re given an overview of the work that goes on behind the scenes, whilst my endline ties in with the concept of time and the notion of a ‘new dawn’.
The Herald
Role: Art Direction and Design
Brief: To provide a single iconic shot that would show The Herald (Scotland’s best read quality broadsheet) as ‘Scotland’s paper’, as it was still seen (by some) as a Glasgow paper. The shot also had to compliment the end line we developed – ‘A broader view’ – as this was to provide the backbone for all outdoor and POS brand advertising.
End Result: By utilising the vast library of stock photography at The Herald , I was able to depict Scotland as one village by merging most of Scotland’s major landmarks into one, highlighting The Herald’s broad coverage of not just one city, but the whole country.
