I'm Ricky Trickartt, and I made everything on this page
I make a lot more stuff than just design
Story and pictures, Illustration, Book design
'Alley Cat Rally' is a children's picture book I made that is published by Flying Eye Books
Daily drawings
My ideas usually begin on post-it notes. I post a new note to my social media every single day
Logo design
These are logos I have created for Hospital Records and its sister projects
Cover design
This is a record cover I made for 'Hospitality On The Beach 2019'
Type design, Cover design
This record cover features completely custom typography centred around continuous lines
Identity, Cypography design, Cover design
This is an identity and an entire 'universal language' for Metrik's debut album
Photography by Yusaku Aoki
Stopmotion, Sewing
This is an image of me working hard
Cover design, Packaging design
This is a limited-edition package for a collaboration project between two legendary reggae and drum and bass record labels
Book design
This is a monograph on the visual history of Hospital records, the past ten years of which have been under my direction
Poster design
This is a personal project redesigning posters for three of my partner's favourite movies
Illustration, Cover design
This artwork was created to buck the clichés of Drum and Bass
Cover design
This cover was done by spinning a canvas really fast and pouring paint onto it
Cover design
This cover was designed using practical effects - I put it in my kitchen freezer!
Cover design
The brief for this project was to deliver a premium-feeling 'none-more-black' package on a tight budget
Cover design
This album is called 'Blue Leaves'
Record design
This is an etched record for a psychedelic Beatles cover on Hospital Records
Poster design
These are twelve travel postcards and fold-out map I created for a special edition of an album titled 'Are We There Yet?'
Animation, Illustration
This gif loops every second
Cover design, packaging design
This packaging design was inspired by some old VHS tapes the musicians had
Logo design, Infographics
This is an identity design and some infographics for a local CNC company
Animation, Illustration
This gif also loops every second
Cover design
This was a cover for a cover of a classic
Letterpress, Identity design
These are individually-customised hand-letterpressed calling cards
Identity design, packaging design
This is packaging and identity for a record label started by a BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ
Identity design
This is a classic identity from my heyday designing event flyers
Packaging design
This is a proposal I made for plain cigarette packaging, when it was first being tabled in 2011. My design was later featured in an exhibition at The Wellcome Collection
T-shirt design
This is a T-shirt designed for Red Bull's 'Music Odyssey' event
Collage, Cover design
This is my personal favourite record cover I ever created
Identity design
This is an identity for an event where all DJs were playing in a 'versus' format
Painting
This is propaganda
Packaging design
This uses coloured vinyl for a purpose- 'scanning' the record cover itself
Cover design
This artwork was done entirely with practical effects, and is probably not your cup of tea
Cover design
This is a quick book cover redesign intended to be more sympathetic to the hippy nature of the book
Display design, Illustration
This is a window design for a pop-up Hospital Records shop
Sewing
This is a plush robot in a spacesuit
Illustration, Packaging design
This is a project about rediscovering beauty in something that had previously been discarded
Type design, Cover design
This is custom typography, without the budget for holography
Cover design
These may or may not be clementines
Illustration, packaging design
This is a set of custom playing cards, featuring the CEO as the joker
Cardboard, Cover design
This is a 1:1 scale cassette tape I crafted and photographed for a 'mixtape' album
Illustration, Cover design
This is a strange system
Collage, Cover design
This artwork was meant to feel 'grown-up'
Animation, Illustration
This gif loops every second too
T-shirt design
This is a robot special for Hospital's Merchandise range
Identity design
This is a flexible identity for Critical's global events brand
Poster design
This is a poster for the Fiat Panda, as it stands in the med 30 years later
Packaging design, Identity design
This is packaging design for a series of beers for Hospital Records
Cover design
This debut single was initially rejected by iTunes for being 'too blurry'
Craft
This is a trojan chicken
Cover design
This is cover artwork in binary
Logo design, Cover design
This is a new identity for an 'anonymous' artist named Unglued
Identity design
This is part of an identity for Hospitality's 2014 London shows, as an homage to Transport for London
Painting
He is The Viscount
Type design, Cover design
This project is all about minimalism and bespoke typography
Photography by Mike Deere
Sewing
This is my niece's best friend
Cover design
This is a Homage to Russian constructivism
Packaging design, art direction
This... well sometimes you get given a perfect track title
Photography by Andrew Attah
Identity design, Cover design
This is minimalism
Letterpress, Illustration
These are hand-letterpressed greetings cards
Identity design
This is an identity for Hospitality's return to the dome in Greenwich
Sewing
This is Mr. Sunday
Craft
This is a more solid robot
Cover design
This is Peter Blake on acid
Craft
This is a TV I made for an early iPhone, and it went a little viral in 2009
Craft
This was once a tree, then it was a tree again