I’m Tom Whyles. I’m a second year Graphic Design student at Loughborough University, currently seeking industry placement opportunities in Europe for the 2026/2027 academic year.
2023
‘The Sunset Heist’ is the name of a concept for a film I created in 2023 within the span of a 15-hour exam setting for my A-levels. In response to the single-word brief of ‘Yellow’, I designed a feature length title intro sequence (centre), a teaser trailer (above), and developed a concept for an ad campaign.
Core design inspiration was extracted primarily from the visual language of Saul Bass, and from the title intro sequence for ‘Catch Me If You Can’ designed by Kuntzel and Deygas.
The entire project consists of self-made shapes using both Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, put together with the iconic Pink Panther theme and brought to life in After Effects as my debut animation project.
2026
‘Keep the Change’ is an experiential design intervention to target the connection recession in modern society. Acting as a multifunctional community noticeboard, the project aims to bring communities together in collaboration with the World Kindness Movement and The Co-op Bank.
By identifying the downward trend in societal togetherness, the concept is focused around transactional kindness being a leading cause for the decline in togetherness. To emphasise the metaphor of transactionality, the initiative manifests itself inside repurposed ATM machines. This not only helps tackle the environmental problem of their disposal due to their general redundancy in modern society, but gives them a new and more permanent lease of life.
Click here for the project’s pitch document
And here for the process document.
Ongoing
This project was born from a brief to make a minimum eight second long animation in which a chosen personal dataset is visualised. Being one of my greatest passions, my mind went straight to the idea of visualising my music taste. To transform qualitative into quantitative data, I created a ranking of my favourite live music acts that I have seen.
The animation details an array of concerts I have attended, as well as statistics about their genre, location, and the year in which I attended. As for the top 5, they are ranked on set metrics in order to create the most objective result to stand at #1. Visual inspiration came from the design aesthetics of the #1 scorer on my list (Radiohead) and the ‘Spotify Wrapped’ concept that many brands and services now offer in order to produce a ‘year in review’ rewind for their users or customers.
Click here for the project’s process document.