DOCTOR WHO — Season 12
BBC (2020)
Graphic Trainee
Graphic design across time, space, and genre.
The Project
I joined Doctor Who Series 12 as a full-time Graphics Trainee, working across multiple episodes and timelines on one of the BBC’s most ambitious returning dramas. The role demanded speed, adaptability, and rigorous research, with graphics ranging from historically accurate paperwork to entirely fictional alien languages.
Each episode introduced a new visual world, making the job an intensive introduction to large-scale scripted television production and a formative experience in narrative-led graphic design.
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Mockup of vintage canned cherries
The work was grounded in extensive research into early 20th-century American ephemera — including scientific tables, patents, newspapers, handwritten notes, and commercial labels associated with both inventors. The aim was to create graphics that felt practical, functional, and entirely believable within a working laboratory, while quietly reinforcing the contrast between Tesla’s experimental brilliance and Edison’s commercial pragmatism.
These graphics were designed to sit naturally within busy sets, supporting the story without drawing attention to themselves.
Episode 4 — Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror
Turn-of-the-century science, invention, and rivalry
For “Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror”, set in 1903, I helped create labels, paperwork, and graphic dressing for Tesla’s and Edison’s laboratories, as well as product labels and period adverts for surrounding street scenes.
Screenshot showing the cans as window dressing