Abby JamesGraphic designer for film, TV and commercials
CV,  Instagram,  IMDb
Creating graphic details — big and small — to build worlds behind the camera. Sharp eye for layout and typography, from a decade in journalism and magazine publishing. Stuck in the late 20th century. Versed in period and contemporary. Lover of design high and low. Somewhere making books.

Former magazine journalist and print layout designer. Member of Graphics Union UK.

Based in London and the South East.
graphics@abbyjames.com
+44 (0) 7521 300 477




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RoleTypeByDate
Tomb RaiderGraphic designer
Season 1AmazonApril 2026 – May 2026
SiloSenior graphic designer
Season 4Apple TVApril 2025 – March 2026
Starling BankGraphic designerCommercialThe Corner ShopNovember 2025
PerkGraphic designerCommercial
Untold FableOctober 2025
Silo
Senior graphic designerSeason 3Apple TVAugust 2024 – March 2025
Urchin (Cannes)Lead graphic designer
Feature FilmBFI + BBC FilmApril 2024 – July 2024
Silo
Graphic designer
Season 2
Apple TVNovember 2023 – April 2024
BT BusinessGraphic designerCommercialSomesuchJanuary 2024
RSPCA
Graphic designerCommercialSomesuchNovember 2023
McDonaldsGraphic designer
CommercialSmugglerSeptember 2023
Surface
Graphic designerSeason 2Apple TVMarch 2023 – July 2023
The Crown Assistant graphic designerSeason 6NetflixJune 2022 – March 2023
Treason
Graphics assistantLimited SeriesNetflixJanuary 2022 – June 2022
Trying
Graphics assistantSeason 3Apple TVOctober  2021 – December 2021
A Spy Among Friends
Graphics assistant (dailies)Limited SeriesITVXSeptember 2021





Perk
Graphic designer
Oct 2025


Untold Fable
 Commercial

Production designer: Anna Rhodes
Set decorator: Abbie Kornstein
Art director: Ashley Dando
I juggled a wide range of styles and techniques for this campaign — from a 1666 contract document, to futuristic NASA-style control room screens.

The commercial for Perk — the go-to platform for managing travel, spend, expenses and invoices — shows how admin can you slow you down. Sir Isaac Newton, distracted by the unwieldy travel insurance paperwork he must sign, misses the falling apple (and the discovery of gravity). While an astronaut, doing a menial computer task, misses his spacecraft launch.


With no budget for a calligrapher, a customised handwriting font was used for the body copy of the indenture.


Seven identical repeats were produced, to be signed by Isaac Newton in action.



The document would have been wavily cut in half. Each party would have kept one half. The two halves could be put together — their edges matching up perfectly — to prove that they were the original, legitimate documents.
Aged strips of masking tape were threaded through holes in the parchment — and stood in for vellum ties.
Each repeat was aged with tea-staining, some digitally printed ageing, and finished with wax, after printing the graphic.
The drop-cap ‘T’ was hand-drawn with a dip-pen and brown ink; scanned; and printed.
Options for an operating system for the mars exploration space launch.


Operating system for space shuttle launch. Model by Anna Rhodes.



Over 20 screens, including modern desktops, and retro CRT monitors, were provided. Model by Anna Rhodes.



Sample of CRT monitor screens provided, inspired by 1970s space launches.


Dressing screens, inspired by modern space launches, and using Perk’s colour palette, including ‘Perk Green’.


Simple animation for scripted action at an astronaut’s computer screen. Without Perk, his workflow is too slow, and he misses his launch!




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