// May 18th, 2010 // No Comments » // Art, Graphics
Yup, that’s right - it’s everyone’s favourite animal in everyone’s favourite colours… or… my current favourite animal in my current favourite colours (well it is my blog)
You may have seen me promote this on Facebook as a Threadless design, if so then look at it again and if not, then look at it!
// February 9th, 2010 // No Comments » // Graphics
So it’s been a while but I have been super busy working on the new venue for Empty Shop, the arts organisation that I run; I have however, found time to put up a post of some recent commercial work for Hale, a contemporary hair and beauty salon in Durham. I did this job before Christmas but added the finishing touches with the stenciled logos a few weeks back.
The client wanted a wall design to fill the space as it was looking bare and clinical. She wanted the design to be something that was current, would appeal to her target audience and still maintain a certain aesthetic that suited the business.
I had a great amount of freedom with this project, the client liked graff art and illustration and had some loose ideas with suggestions of floral swirls and oriental imagery. It was really fun fusing some traditional looking mural stuff with some bold pen work and having an overall hand drawn feel to it.
The job also spanned into marketing materials, a basic web presence and there is some really interesting print work on the way too.
The guys at Hale are swell and are more than happy for people to pop in to check out the work.
Take a look at their website too where you can see some of the flyers I created - click here
// October 30th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Graphics
I recently picked up some work fro Hale Hair & Beauty in Durham. I was commissioned to create a wall mural (pics coming soon) and off the back of that created some marketing materials to tie everything together.
The client give me a lot of freedom so I thought it would be nice to give it a loose hand drawn feel to match the wall mural whilst incorporating imagery of flowers and swirls which is something she wanted.
The end result is something minimal and pretty on one side (from a marketing point of view) and the offer on the other side. This way it has two levels of appeal depending on where you are and how you are targeting people.
The business card/ appointment card follows the same idea of ‘pretty and practical’ and has the matching design elements that run throughout.
// September 29th, 2009 // No Comments » // Graphics
Since updating my blog I noticed that there is a severe lack of graphics work up here. Well, that’s simply because I haven’t done any recently and rather than just backtrack and stick old stuff up I’d rather wait.
That being said the category is looking pretty lonely and the only thing here is a post born out of my now rejected idea of offering up handy tips (YAWN) so here for your viewing pleasure is a piece of work I did last year. Hopefully this will keep you interested enough not to resent that fact you have wasted a click of your time.
If you do want to see some other graphics work you can see some older examples here
// May 7th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Graphics, Random
mmmmm...
So, this week I have been eating carrot cake which, in my opinion is easily the best cake although finding a good one is a little hard. Anyway, after much searching I’m pretty sure I have found the nicest carrot cake EVER!!! A slight exaggeration perhaps, but it’s definately the nicest so far and Surprisingly it’s just Morrison’s own brand …and not even from the swanky ‘best’ range! It was so good it actually made my eyes twitch with pleasure, you know, a bit like when you get your hair washed at the hairdressers.
So that’s my opinion on carrot cake - If you think you can reccommend a better one get in touch and I’ll put it to the test.
By the way, I don’t work for Morrison’s although if anyone from Morrision’s would like to give me free carrot cake because of this post I won’t say no!
Favicons
Ok, maybe this should be the real point of this post but lets face it, I doubt anyone is reading this anyway! So, a favicon is the little square ‘favourites icon’ that appears next to your URL in Internet browsers and when you bookmark something. I have just designed the new one for Rat Pasty so thought I would give a quick explanation of how to make your own…
Design big and keep it simple, then shrink it down
That is how to create your own basic favicon. You can find a great tutorial which is more in depth and also explains about multi resolution favicons over at photoshopsupport.com
Favicon Generators
If you want a much easier, simpler way to create your own favicon you can use one of the many generators out there such as favicon.co.uk
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