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in What I'm working on on February 14, 2013
Over the last few weeks I’ve had the pleasure of working on this detailed illustrated wedding invitation for the very lovely Becky and Ross.
Early last year I created a set of Save The Date postcards for them and so we built on the style of those to create these fully illustrated fold [...]
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What I'm working on on January 31, 2013
I love a bit of newy newy newness so I am super excited to be able to share my newest bunch of stuff with you. I’ve joined forces with Envelop to produce a range of fabric products – aprons, oven gloves and tote bags at the moment with more to come. At the moment four [...]
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What I'm working on on January 21, 2013
This last week has seen quite a lot of snow fall where I live and I love it!
Not just because I’m a big kid who thinks building snowmen and having fullscale snowball wars are amazing, but because it’s so pretty. It changes places, makes them unrecognisable in some cases and the way the snow falls pulls [...]
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What I'm working on on November 12, 2012
I’ve wanted to create some mugs with my designs on for a little while now but had trouble find the right mugs, the right printer and choosing the designs to go on them. A few weeks ago I made a concerted effort to get them sorted and last Wednesday the first few arrived with me. I am [...]
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What I'm working on on October 15, 2012
A few months ago I entered my Sketchy Snowflakes design in Ohh Deer’s Pillow Fight competition, it involved designing a cushion cover and Ohh Deer would pick a winner to have their design sold in the Ohh Deer online shop.
However a week or so ago we all got an email saying that they’d had [...]
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What I'm working on on September 30, 2012
Back in August I decided to take Rachael Taylor’s Art and Business of Surface Pattern design course. I’d got to a point with my work where I wasn’t sure which direction I wanted to take it in and, as I’ve spoken about before, I’ve been trying to get into a more strategic, seasonal workflow. I hoped that [...]
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What I'm working on on September 18, 2012
To celebrate the arrival of my brand new designs on my first wrapping paper range, and their first outing at the Handmade Makers Market for Keeping It Local at Oxford Castle Quarter, I thought I’d share a little behind the scenes post about the making of the designs, where I get my inspiration from and how I translate my [...]
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in What I'm working on on September 6, 2012
At the moment I’m taking Rachael Taylor’s The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design course and today’s class was all about sketchbooks and it got me thinking about all of mine. When I was working full time as a studio-based graphic designer the books I kept were more like notebooks, full of copy lines, concepts [...]
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What I'm working on on July 27, 2012
Week three of Literary Types comes to a close on the same day as the London 2012 Olympics starts! I’ve had a busy week but have managed to get all my daily challenges done, even with days out to Art In Action and Silverstone Classic last weekend and of course the warm weather had been [...]
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What I'm working on on July 20, 2012
I’m now on week 2 of Literary Types, my self-directed (or should that be self-inflicted) typographical daily challenge. I’m still picking random pages and lines from Gone With The Wind to hand letter and enjoying experimenting with various styles and techniques, in fact I bought a new calligraphy pen and selection of nibs this week and have [...]
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What I'm working on on July 13, 2012
If you follow me on Facebook and Twitter you may have noticed my new daily drawing project, Literary Types.
I’ve always had a bit of a thing for type, as a child my bookcase was full of various books about how to draw lettering and I’d spend hours designing typefaces. This obsession with letterforms may go [...]
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What I'm working on on July 12, 2012
As part of my bespoke design work I’ve just completed the brand identity for a new dance company based in Oxford.
Owned by the ever inspiring Emma-Jane Greig, Body Politic design and run classes and workshops, unite the dance community and put Oxford on the map in terms of modern street dance and hip hop – [...]
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What I'm working on on April 25, 2012
Back in 2010, during the Football World Cup, I was working for one and we had a collection of wallcharts covering almost an entire wall of the office. Being a bunch of designer nerds we couldn’t help critiquing them and the general consensus was that they were all pretty ugly, hard to fill in and hard [...]
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in What I'm working on on June 5, 2011
A few weeks ago I was asked if I’d like to design some characters for an organisation in Oxford. They were asking a few illustrators to put together some examples so this would be my first competitive pitch as an illustrator. Scary!
I was given personality briefs for a set of five characters and finding [...]
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in What I'm working on on April 18, 2011
With Rumplestiltskin hot off the press and about to go online I’m looking for my next fairy tale to illustrate. I’ve been doing a some preparatory drawings for a few of my favourites but I just can’t pick which one to work up first. Can you help? Simply click through to my blogger page (unless [...]
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in What I'm working on on January 18, 2011
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I’ve recently started life drawing classes as a way of loosening myself up a bit, from experience in sixth form it improves your drawing like nothing else.
As with anything there are moments where I think I’m terrible at it, times when I just can’t get the legs at the right [...]
