April 18th, 2014

update to follow up of “picking up the pace”

Pipped at the post! After hundreds of votes were cast, my design to advertise a budget airline came in at a respectable second! Really quite pleased with myself! See the top ten runners and riders here at The Drum. Having never entered a design competition before, I have now officially got the competition bug… Thanks to all those that voted for me, and well done to the other entries.
April 15th, 2014

follow up to post “picking up the pace”

I made it onto the short list! As some of you may have read earlier in the week, I recently entered a graphic design competition hosted by the Drum magazine to advertise a budget airline – and I made the short list!! I am super excited – it’s the first design competition I’ve ever entered, so currently sporting a rather large grin. As a reader of my blog, please could I…
April 14th, 2014

fun little project

Playing around with Illustrator yesterday I created a cute little fairy that my nieces will totally love. In fact I have created them one each to match their hair and eye tones, as well as favourite colour… I was so pleased with it, that I thought I’d give it a whirl, and turn myself into the homepage fairy for a week or so, after all it is my site. Although…
April 13th, 2014

picking up the pace

At school in art lessons I was always told to come up with ten variations on a theme, choose my three best ideas, develop several ideas based on those ideas to get a final result, which I then had to work on, oh and to keep a notebook of my all my workings out and which artists I had looked at to get my ideas. I have to admit it…
March 24th, 2014

when graphic design meets hollywood

Two of my favourite things in the whole world are film and graphic design, (there are of course other wondrous delights like profiteroles and sunbathing that could be classed as favourite things, but I won’t go into that…). I came across this article whilst browsing the always fantastic Creative Review site and it got me thinking. How exactly would you get into this profession, it looks and sounds incredibly awesome….
March 21st, 2014

that friday feeling

When it comes around to Friday and somebody mentions “that Friday feeling” I always think of this and then I want a Crunchie.  What is it about clever marketing campaigns, and how years after the release you can still hum the tune and feel inclined to make a purchase? I wish I could come up with something like that. (My mum thinks the person who came up with “more reasons…
March 18th, 2014

infographic: The design process

A while back, I was invited to pitch for a graphic design competition. I was sent a brief, and request to create an infographic about “graphic design process.” For those of you that know me well, you’ll know that I do love an infographic! Here is what I produced… I am a big believer in the bit before the actual design part takes place – the planning! I definitely have…
March 17th, 2014

I don’t like Mondays…

As the Boomtown Rats song of 1979 goes, not that many people are that fond of Monday’s. Although that said, I don’t imagine that that many of the people that don’t like Monday’s are likely to go on a killing spree… If only that woman, from that song, based on that real life scenario, had seen this picture, the song may not even have existed…. So why do Monday’s get such…