Oxford University Philharmonia
Marketing and communications designer
SKills gained
Brand Design
Brand Strategy
Communications
Marketing
Software used
Photoshop
procreate
indesign
affinity
kEY ACHIEVEMENTS:
Remain as their go-to Graphic Designer due to efficient and responsive communication.
An increase of 25% in ticket sales across all events.
Social media visit have increase 400%.
Referred to concert manager of Anglian youth orchestra due to successful marketing materials.
TCHAIKOVSKY,
Brahms
May 2026 - physical and digital marketing Posters
PRocess:
FOllowing the success of AYO’s concert poster, i researched painters such as Frank dicksee, George Jules Victor Clairin, francesco haye, Julius Kronberg, alfred william hunt, etc. all these painters led directly into inspiring OUP’s may concert poster which led me down a more painterly route.
Following a review round:
the OUP team did not think that the painterly style would work well and gave feedback to pivot to previous designs. THus, I began to use the sketched combination as inspiration for a photo-bash of all photos.
Following a second review round:
THe OUP team loved the second design only ask for lightning strikes to be shrunk and the text colours to be more slightly more accessible for colour-blind individuals.
Therefore, following only two review round, i was able to produce a sketched version, more romanticist style, and a slightly modern style. Using the final modern style poster, this became oUp’s quickest sold out event ever. the concert manager stated, ‘thanks to the success of our poster campaign, created by kian swingler, we have sold out!’
Strauss,
Arnold,
Laxton
April 2026 - Poster and logo
PRocess:
Due to my successful work with OUP, I was able to be referred by OUP’s Concert Manager to the Anglian Youth orchestra.
Here I was entrusted with full creative control over the poster and their logo design that is now being used across all social media and promotion.
i received only two pieces of feedback across this project:
the order of names in the poster and font choice.
This was improved and the final logo design and poster was finalised in 48 hours. THis poster took a little longer than other due to the method of production being hand painted on procreate using stills from the Die Fledermaus Overture operetta by the Australian Opera in 1982
gershwin mussorgsky
March 2026 - physical and digital marketing Posters
PRocess:
I was tasked to combine the musicality of Gershwin and Mussorgsky into a poster that would increase ticket sales and visibility of OUP.
This initial version was constructed to demonstrate mixing of culture, utilising the Brooklyn Bridge and the Great Gates of Kyiv in a photo-bash. whilst this was an interesting direction, the text hierarchy, general composition, and CTA was not clear enough.
following a review round:
i leaned into a more recognisable composition including the statue of liberty with Hartmann's pictures at an exhibition scattered around. This provided a more attractive format and cta being more accessible.
I was able to quickly turn the previous draft into a final draft in 12 hours. This new draft provided OUP with marketing materials that increased viewings of their ticket site, ticketsource, by 250%.
Shostakovich
gipps
beethoven
October 2025 - physical and digital marketing Posters
PRocess:
Shostakovich was OUP’s main piece for this concert. Thus, I wanted to demonstrate the anti-Russian narrative that Shostakovich presented throughout his work. using a Red Crescent and Cross stamp began the experimentation into this thought process.
after one review round i was provided with the following feedbacK:
The first was to incorporate Shostakovich headshot and the second was to increase the legibility of the text for accessibility reasons.
Thus, I was able to produce their final poster in under 24 hours. providing a full print-ready posters with clear cutting guides and colour proofs, and an accessible instagram post to broaden their audience.
