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Design Competition For Students Oop North
The Northern Design Competition is offering over £12,000 in prizes to higher education students! No it’s not just a glorified spec work competition because I don’t post those (boo to spec work), it’s a genuine opportunity for not j...
The Creative Works of Tim Burton
I’m a HUGE horror fan, and also a big fan of many types of music, and also ‘musicals’. So I was really interested when fabulous hyperactive blogger Swiss Miss alerted me to the fact that there is an exhibition of the creative works ...
All Hallow’s Eve Designs
Murrrhh ha ha ha, it’s All Hallow’s Eve tomorrow. As witnessed by my pumpkins above Not lit … it’s not dark enough yet. Want to see some cool spooky/Halloween designs? See below:...
Great Logo Concepts
I was just doing some research for a client for their fishery directory business logo design and came across this fab logo… don’t you think it’s really clever? I don’t often comment on logos I come across, I really think thi...
Truly Ace Travels Ooop North
I went North a bit a couple of weekends ago, for a visit to the Peak District. Amazingly I’ve never been there although it’s not that far away from the Midlands. Whilst I was there I popped into a lovely shop and saw these amazing illustr...
Stylish Geekism - Web Design
I recently worked on the ‘front end web design’ for a web developers community called GAWDs (Guild of Accessible Web Developers), you can view the full design below;...
Boutique Design Project
I’m feeling very pleased with myself today, having designed something that I really really like. It’s a second logo design concept for start-up business Boutique Venues. It’s one of those situations where I ‘really’ want...
Where Is Tara & The Weather Pops
Respected blogger Tara Roskell seems to have disappeared from Cyberspace for 7 months now. Born from 15 years of graphic design experience, her once extremely high profile Graphic Design Blog featured it’s last blog in October 2008, not a word...
Milky Moo Moos - Nice Branding
Now here is some refreshing branding … sorry I could not resist the pun at all. I really like their packaging, it’s so innovative and interesting! What great gift packaging it makes....
Julian Opie - Simple & Colourful
A few years ago I saw the portrait work of Julian Opie, and it was the first time I’d heard of this artist … I think that this type of work is probably what he is most famous for … portraits and people. Recently I reminded of his ar...
How To Use An Illustration Service
Businesses may question how an illustration service could be used in marketing literature or marketing campaigns and struggle to visualise the benefits of using an illustration over and above stock photography for instance. One reason alone could be ...
Eve Duhamel Influences Saptrans
I’ve created a brand identity design recently that I think is a well designed piece … memorable and appealing as well as being original for it’s industry. Its modern and yet should stand the test of time in it’s simplicity. Wh...
Loving Fortnum & Mason Today
I visited Fortnum & Mason today looking for a birthday gift for my brother in a law and I’m loving their stylish mix of ‘traditional heritage business’ with a modern twist....
Truly Ace Branding In Cosmopolitan
I’m proud to announce that another business branded by Truly Ace has achieved the attention of international media - this time fabulous vintage fashion brand Love In The Afternoon has received extensive full page coverage in the March issue of ...
Google Alerts Finds Lauren Radley
Don’t you just love Google Alerts. I’ve recently found out about Google Alerts … I know, why on earth I’ve only just found out about it I don’t know, but at least once a week I stumble across some really interesting webs...
Outstanding SME Branding
The best SME (Small/Medium Enterprise) branding I’ve seen in a long long time is …..drumroll…. Trolley Car Diner Philadelphia based cafe/eatery ‘Trolley Car Diner’ offer their customers a very consistent brand image, and...
Greeting Card Design
I created a nice funky little greeting card design last week for a company called Active Dental that provides marketing services to dental surgeries, and high end dental products to surgeries and the general public. Now the idea behind this greeting ...
Family Target Market Website Design
I’ve recently completed design works on a redesign of a website for Music Bus, which are a company offering a “Fun Filled Hour of Music and Play” and offer this across the West Sussex area to preschool babies and toddlers from 5 mon...
20 Graphic Design & Illustration Competitions 2009
Aspiring or established graphic designer or brand designer? Aspiring or established illustrator even? A list of 20 design competitions for 2009:...
Commercial Illustrator
I was sitting in our local Pizza Express on the 23rd December with my family after doing some last minute Christmas shopping and observed that the children’s activity books were more fetching than your standard activity sheet/book offered by mo...
Put People To Sleep With Your Art
On the 31st October Before and After magazine asked it’s readership to submit cover art for a book designed to put one to sleep. The brief included; - Must not arouse the read. - No thought provoking titles - No gripping images - No bright col...
Many Ways To Inspire Yourself
Thomas Edison once said that genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration, but where exactly (and how) should one find it? Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb amongst other influential inventions, for those of us that are academically challenged ...
Poopoobags design - Icky & cool at the same time
I was browsing Google images yesterday and stumbled upon this brilliant product packaging. You have just got to love it when you visit their website and are faced with a website page title of ’s**t happens’, now that is pure marketing po...
Fun Times; Monster Illustrations
I’m very lucky to have a constant stream of very enjoyable graphic design projects, all very diverse. This one was particularly fun and I found myself getting quite carried away!...
Design Books, Business Books
Now I’ve heard of Lulu for self publishing, but until last week I hadn’t heard of Blurb. Blurb is another US based book publishing website for those who want to create and print their own books, prices are very reasonable and they offer f...
Coolest Shop In The World?
Is this THE coolest retro website/shop in the world? Nay, the Universe? Ok, I’m a tad biased because I make no secret of love of retro styling, but this website is the the bomb. Never have I seen a website crafted with such loving attention to ...
10 Of My Fav Visual Movies
If you are a visual/creative person you will love these movies. I’m a big fan of technicolour movies, musicals and many other films that I think are ‘visually interesting’. I’ve mentioned shopping before as a visual treat, and...
10 Tips To Shake Off A Creative Block
Everyone, at least every now and then gets stuck for ideas…designers get stuck for creative ideas, and the same can be said for many professionals where creativity and ideas are needed on a regular basis. Constantly churning out fresh new ideas...
Urban Colour Pallettes
Inspiration is all around us. David Airey said on his logo design blog two months ago that nature provides some of the most striking and beautiful colour palletes imaginable. I thought this was an exceptionally clever observation. Yesterday these wor...
Vintage Retail Inspiration
Eighty One Graphic Design recently blogged about being inspired by a foray into the retail world (shopping), and I commented that indeed I too am extremely inspired by what I see when out and about and often take photos with my new super fab mobile p...
