The Value Of White Space
What is white space? And why is white space so important in design? I’d say that I have an ongoing battle (too strong a word probably) with most of my clients regarding white space. With them trying...
View ArticleHunkydory Ecommerce Goes Live
Just a quick blog to say that we’re EXTREMELY excited to see the new look Hunkydory online shop go live today. We re-designed the Hunkydory website a few months ago and are really pleased to see the...
View ArticleSunday Afternoon Doodles
I often do a bit of design work on a weekend, and on Sunday just gone I decided to take my work into the pub and work on some doodles for a book cover design. I knew I wanted something illustrative and...
View ArticleIn The Coffee Shop Today
This is a brief illustrative synopsis of my experience in Nero coffee shop today. I may well print it onto something at some point.
View ArticleBit of Comic Strip Fun
I’ve been meaning to do a new comic strip for ages now but didn’t have any particular inspiration, however inspiration arrived last night so I’ve come up with this
View ArticleIllustration For Leisure Industry Interiors
Well isn’t this interesting (well, to me anyway ) On Sunday I was in the Island Bar in Birmingham, listening to some bands play and admiring the general bohemian atmosphere and studying the wall...
View ArticlePaul Kidby At Antiques For Everyone
On Sunday I visited Antiques For Everyone at the NEC, Birmingham. Amid all the glory of beautifully polished apothercary cabinets and Victorian barometers I came across a stand ‘arts’ relevant enough...
View ArticleChildren In Need – Party Rocking
Yeah, so they told me to dress my child ‘wacky’ for Children in Need at school tomorrow ….
View ArticleChristmas Marketing Is In the Air
I’ve just created a Christmas website banner design to replace Hunkydory Home’s Autumnal design currently in situ. You can view the new design below; This is the old Autumnal design … The entire...
View ArticleGreat Example Of Animation In Music Video
Here is another great example of great animation in a music video. Other examples from a blog earlier in the year >
View ArticleVintage Childhood Books
I moved home very recently and today I was lovingly unpacking my childhood books (which are over 30 years old), and placing them on top of the vintage suitcase pictured above. The suitcase is also a...
View ArticleHospital Nurse Romance Comics
I’ve been standing in Waterstones fondling the ‘Love On Ward B‘ book for some time; drooling at it’s 1960′s comic heroine illustrative style. I haven’t seen anything like this before as a new...
View ArticleProfessional Photography For Personal Branding
Recently I created a new personal brand company identity for health guru Jenni Russell – Jenni Russell; The Pelvic Floor Conditioning Expert. It was a pleasure working with Jenni because she’s got such...
View ArticleDavid Bowie – The Stars Are Out Tonight
I’m really liking the video for David Bowie’s new song The Stars Are Out Tonight. The song itself isn’t bad, but it’s the actual video that is impressing me. Tilda Swinton is amazing in it, and I adore...
View ArticleAs You Wish – World Book Day
Talking of books recently, tomorrow is World Book Day! Not that it’s advertised much (to my knowledge), I’m pretty certain I’d know nothing of it if I were not a parent at the mercy of the school...
View ArticleMr Birds Emporium of Vintage, Culture & Art
I’ve known about Mr Birds for months now but keep forgetting to visit it, I guess I’ve been a bit busy of late as I’ve been moving home. MAYHAPS this blog will remind me to finally go one Saturday. Mr...
View ArticleConingsby Gallery London
Oh hello, I just discovered the Conningsby Gallery in London via news of the Inky Goodness Beermat Character exhibition which will be showing there from the 29th April to 4th May. Birmingham based...
View ArticleFriday Night
I may, or may not have drawn this last night (Friday) Somewhat a case of ‘art playing out at the same time as life’ than art ‘imitating life’ The panels deliberately become more ‘drunk’ also, as the...
View ArticleBirmingham; City of Culture
It seems only a few short years ago Birmingham was commonly hailed as an industrial toilet, and yet suddenly we are now City of Culture. I breezed into our fair city Sunday afternoon to enjoy it’s...
View ArticleQuick Jolly – I Have No Gas
A few months before buying my new home and while being inundated with various property and land reports from my solicitor, I had a strange nightmare in which after I moved in, I found a stairway off...
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