ouldn’t resist the wheelie bin.
John Morris Hall, Grafton Manor(Arch and wheelie bin) – Oil on board
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oing to try and do one of these for each season.
Spring, Spadesbourne Walk – Oil on board
irst in an occasional series of paintings of local scenes. Trying to work toward a looser style.
Hanbury Road, Stoke Prior – Oil on board
o I ordered an ‘easy to use’* phone a few weeks ago from an online retailer.
I didn’t really pay much attention beyond the features and the reviews. On its arrival I switched it on to be greeted by a logo that looked familiar.
It seems I designed the logo for the company behind the phone that I’d just bought around 2006/07. While the company has rebranded slightly, from TT Sims to TT fone, they kept kept the sim card design created as a part of their original website way back then.
(I should add whoever converted is has squished it down and lost the slight bevel, call me biased but I’d say it looked better with those 🙂 )
Not the most exciting post perhaps but when you do work for the web there isn’t much that stays around all that long let alone ten years or more so, even though this isn’t perhaps my finest design moment, it was great to see all the same… Though I now also feel quite old.
*Not for myself I am now fully smartphone equipped, though admittedly it did take me quite a while to come around to them.
‘ve spent a good portion of the past month over at Hathway Creative working on a new website to support the release of the career spanning four CD box set of the band The Long Ryders, which was released last month by Cherry Red Records.
Its been an enjoyable and pretty wide encompassing project and my work has included the creation and launch of a new website, product photography of the set, some work promoting the site and set on social media and also I’ve had a part in designing some videos. Its been good fun too and its always interesting working on a project in a new area. In working on this I think I’ve mostly learned more than I would have liked on the convoluted and somewhat messy issues of music licensing and YouTube and Facebook.
Take a look at the new website at thelongryders.com which will also tell you all you might need to know on the Final Wild Songs box set.
And check out one of the videos here…
The Long Ryders will be touring Europe and the USA later in the year.
t was great to be asked to work with a previous client on on the set up of a brand new project.
Mengage is a UK-based not-for-profit company working with males on health and social issues, providing resources, training, consultancy and practical research-based solutions from both national and international practice, backed by years of experience of practical work with men and boys.
I contributed both the website, logo and some illustrations to the project. The illustrations were produced both to be used on the website itself and in a number of print publications.
I’ve wanted to have the opportunity of placing some illustrations within a website layout for some time, stock images are fine but they can sometimes feel, and be, a little generic and forgettable. I think where the illustrations appear within the new website they do help to give the project and a little more depth and a more unique visual identity. The logo was also produced as a metal badge, cut to shape to help with promotion and identity, it came out really well.
Anyway, click here to visit Mengage, If you are putting a project together, do consider illustration along side stock photography, I may well be biased but I think its an underused option.
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