I’m excited to share my final MA project, The Crown Pub, a visual communication investigation into one of Middlesbrough’s most iconic but neglected buildings. Once a thriving social hub, the building now stands empty and in decay despite its listed status.

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Drawing on site visits, photography, and texture studies, I translated architectural features, such as the building’s three floors and window arrangement into grid systems that shaped the design process. Archival research, including council documents and local heritage records, provided further context and informed the typographic and editorial direction.

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The outcomes an editorial publication, risograph and screen prints, and poster works layer photography, typography, and council texts onto tracing paper, creating a material metaphor for transparency, fragility, and erasure. The project critically explores how listed buildings are preserved in policy yet abandoned in practice, questioning how councils shape the narratives of urban spaces through neglect.