Online video book review

I was amazed the other day when my friend CCBB showed me a video on Expotv.com of a lady reviewing one of my old books for children.
Check it out here. . .
I wrote quite a few of these type of books a few years ago (some more complex than the one reviewed here, some less so [...]

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Great bit of ‘copper-based’ advertising!

Has anyone seen the new ‘Sure for Women’ ad currently showing in ads, mags and on bill boards all over the UK at the mo:
With my predilection for all things copper (particularly things made out of coins!) I just thought this was a very clever bit of photography/Photoshopping/advertising. . .
Steampunk Deodorants – whatever next…!?

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New Folk Festival website

For a few years now I’ve been involved with helping do the publicity for my local folk festival. This year the print design work has been done by our local Council, so instead I got asked to design a website for the event. It’s now live, and at the following address >>
It needs a bit of [...]

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The notebooks of Ross Lovegrove

I saw this snippet in The Times Magazine supplement the other day (a friend gets it, not me honest!) about the fantastic designer Ross Lovegrove…
Despite him being a truly wonderful designer and the piece being a very interesting and informative article, the bit that did make me doubt my own sanity was the paragraph in [...]

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Wonderful charity shops. . .

I’ve just found this in my local Oxfam shop… 
It’s a metal cutting ruler, a metre long and with a t-square end attachment. For a guy who spends a lot of time cutting out big bits of artwork/generally messing around with a scalpel and cutting mat it’s just the ticket, and knocks my existing metal-edged plastic [...]

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New client logo

I thought I’d post up the following logo that I’ve recently completed for a new client  - for no other reason than I’m quite pleased with it and wanted to show it off a bit!
It’s for a high-end car restoration firm, and I’ve taken a ‘classic car’ look / feel for the general approach. It’s not [...]

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A new etched sign – The ‘Team Wah’ logo

Here is Step 1 in my latest attempt at etching signs from brass – a logo/desk sign for the top-secret ‘Team Wah’ Initiative (actually just the team name of a bunch of in-house designers I’m a part of).
Designed by the legendary Knott-Wah, a .eps file of the logo was sent to the good people at Montage [...]

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A strange occurrence of fonts – Lake District Diary Part II

So on Day II, I passed the following bit of carved stone, now incorporated into a farm building wall in Eskdale.

I am guessing it was a practice piece for a local stonecarver (spot the mistake in-between the first Y and Z!) and I love the usage of different fonts. It makes our modern-day ability to [...]

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Wardrobe Wizard – the order restorer!

A friend of mine has recently started a new business venture, de-cluttering people’s overstocked wardrobes.
Called The Wardrobe Wizard, the concept centres on our natural inclination to hoard clothes that we no longer use/wear. It also relies on the fact that so many of us (for a multitude of reasons such as a lack of time, [...]

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Attention to detail

Near me is an old set of farm buildings that is extensively used as a tv/film location. A recent period production has just finished filming there (yet another Dickens remake, I suspect) and I swung by to have a look.
Tucked away on a side wall was a noticeboard prop, a series of posters which [...]

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