Built to be remembered.
A curated collection of branding, music artwork, packaging, merchandise and visual communication. Each project will have its own story, process and final outcome.
MC Stimulator
Artist identity, artwork and visual communication developed across the M.A.Designs portfolio.
MCXI
A clothing identity developed through logo design, labels and apparel applications.
1920s Silent Movie Exhibition
A retro-inspired exhibition identity extended across print and merchandise.
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Cadbury Storybook Packaging
Packaging concepts inspired by classic stories including The Wizard of Oz, Hansel & Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood.
Logo & Identity Collection
A selection of logo and identity projects created for businesses, fashion brands, music ventures and other creative projects.
Album & Cover Artwork
Selected cover artwork created across music projects, artists and visual campaigns.
Cadbury Storybook Packaging
A packaging concept developed around classic children’s stories, combining illustration, flavour concepts and a strong visual storytelling approach.
Reimagining Cadbury through children’s stories.
The project asked for a range of Cadbury chocolate bar wrappers based around a children’s-book theme. The concepts explored The Wizard of Oz, Hansel & Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood, with each wrapper given its own flavour concept.
Storytelling through packaging.
The visual direction combines illustrated scenes, character-led storytelling and playful typography to translate familiar story worlds into a cohesive Cadbury packaging range.
A complete wrapper range.
The final presentation brings the three concepts together as a unified packaging collection, with the artwork extended across the wrapper structure and presented as a finished retail concept.
Brand: Cadbury
Industry: Food & Packaging
Services: Packaging Design · Illustration · Concept Development · Visual Communication
Studio: M.A.Designs Ltd
Album & Cover Artwork
A collection of music artwork developed across different artists, releases and visual concepts, using imagery, typography and illustration to give each project its own identity.
Creating artwork with its own identity.
The work spans a range of music projects, with each cover developed to communicate the individual artist, release and concept through a distinctive visual direction.
Different styles, one design approach.
The collection explores illustrated artwork, cinematic photography, typography-led compositions, character imagery and experimental visual treatments. Each piece is designed around the story and personality of the release.
From concept to finished cover.
The portfolio brings together covers including Drifting, Beauty Queen, Carnage, The Life of Koba Kane, The King’s Disease II, Sweet One, T.G.O.L, The Game and The Culture.
Industry: Music & Entertainment
Services: Album Artwork · Cover Design · Typography · Illustration · Visual Direction
Studio: M.A.Designs Ltd
Logo & Identity Collection
A selection of identity projects created across fashion, beauty, music and creative ventures. Each mark was developed to give the brand a distinctive visual starting point.
From emblematic marks and elegant wordmarks to character-led identities, this collection shows the range of visual directions developed by M.A.Designs Ltd.
Logo Design · Brand Identity · Visual Direction · Apparel Identity
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MCXI — Clothing Brand Identity
A complete visual identity developed for a new clothing range, covering the brand mark and its application across apparel and supporting clothing elements.
Building a recognisable clothing identity.
The project focused on creating the MCXI logo and developing a consistent visual identity that could be applied across a new clothing range.
Identity through application.
The final presentation brings together the MCXI logo, bucket hats, T-shirts and clothing branding, showing how the identity works across different apparel applications.
Client: MCXI
Industry: Fashion & Apparel
Services: Brand Identity · Logo Design · Apparel Branding · Clothing Design
Studio: M.A.Designs Ltd
MC Stimulator
Building a visual world around an artist.
A body of artist branding, music artwork, promotional design and campaign visuals created to give MC Stimulator a flexible visual language across releases, collaborations and digital content.
Bringing the artist’s identity to life.
A video created by M.A.Designs Ltd for MC Stimulator, extending the visual identity into motion and giving the campaign another layer of storytelling.
The Brief
MC Stimulator is a multi-genre musical artist with a long-standing presence across live performance, radio and music projects. The press kit presents a career spanning around 20 years, with work across numerous venues and radio platforms, alongside official videos, releases and promotional material.
The brief was to create a distinctive visual language capable of supporting the artist’s music, releases, collaborations and promotional campaigns while allowing each individual project to have its own visual identity.
Creative Direction
The creative direction moves deliberately between cinematic realism, urban illustration, conceptual storytelling, high-energy entertainment graphics and darker psychological themes. Rather than forcing every release into one visual style, each campaign is developed around its own subject, mood and message.
Recurring principles include strong typography, dramatic composition, character-led imagery, controlled colour palettes, cinematic lighting and recognisable MC Stimulator branding. This creates flexibility while maintaining a clear connection between the different pieces.
The Campaigns
Bring to the Table
A dark, cinematic boardroom concept built around power, observation, loyalty, wisdom and decision-making, with gold typography reinforcing the premium visual treatment.
Monitoring Spirits
A surveillance-inspired visual world combining an office setting with symbolic spirits, technological graphics and layered conceptual imagery.
Gone Clear
An illustrated urban campaign using neon green, a city skyline, rooftop performance imagery and comic-book styling to create a bold release identity.
No Mercy
A collaboration visual built around MC Stimulator and MC Adefila, using fire, electricity, dramatic characters and fight-poster visual language.
Still Observing
A restrained cinematic concept using chess, a city landscape and the artist viewed from behind to communicate strategy, tension and observation.
Different Barsman
A brighter event-led direction using stage lighting, bold typography, fashion-led styling and the artist’s Why Da Face branding.
MC Stimulator × J Banton
An illustrated promotional concept using two customised cars, character artwork and a night-time city environment to announce the collaboration.
The Process
The process starts with understanding the purpose of the artwork and the story behind the music or campaign. From there, the visual direction is developed through concept, imagery, typography, composition and refinement.
The Press Kit
As part of the wider MC Stimulator project, M.A.Designs also created a dedicated artist press kit — bringing the artist’s story, career, music, visuals and supporting information together into one professional media resource.
The press kit includes the artist biography, career background, discography, official video information, press photography and third-party reviews, alongside links to MC Stimulator’s official platforms.
Press kit design: Editorial layout · Artist biography · Discography · Official videos · Press photos · Reviews · Digital links
As part of the wider MC Stimulator project, M.A.Designs also created a dedicated artist press kit — bringing the artist’s story, career, music, visuals and supporting information together into one professional media resource.
The press kit includes the artist biography, career background, discography, official video information, press photography and third-party reviews, alongside links to MC Stimulator’s official platforms. It was designed to give promoters, event organisers, media and industry contacts a clear, professionally presented introduction to the artist.
The Final Outcome
The result is a broad collection of visual assets spanning music artwork, release campaigns, promotional graphics and collaborative projects. The work demonstrates how one artist can move between very different visual worlds while retaining recognisable elements of the wider identity.
The wider MC Stimulator press kit also includes official video projects, discography, press photography and promotional information, giving the visual work a broader context within the artist’s professional identity.