Hello and welcome to my new website
Welcome to the ‘Word-of-mouth Creative’ website - and yes I need to do some updates LOL. I’m not aiming for the hard sell, as you can see my angle is more casual and information based. Let me know your thoughts on the site? Any suggestions for content is very welcome. email me here.
Walls On Fire
Banksy is well-known yet pseudo-anonymous.
His artworks are often satirical pieces of art which encompass topics from politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti with a distinctive stencilling technique, has appeared in London and in cities around the world. See more of his artwork here The message is usually anti-war, anti-capitalist, anti-establishment or pro-freedom. In addition to his artwork, Banksy has claimed responsibility for a number of high profile stunts, I like this one: At London Zoo, he climbed into the penguin enclosure and painted ‘We’re bored of fish’ in seven foot high letters.
White with 2 please, I’m parched!
MyCuppa, Mugs to help you mix your favourite brew to just-how-you-like-it by matching the colour guide on the inside. Available in Tea or Coffee styles.. order them online here The website is http://www.suck.uk.com and has some cool gear online, check out this coffee table for one. Independently controlled illuminating, top and down light. Built in power connection. Select your own colours with Interchangeable filters or choose graphics for the table top.
Smell the Bacon
Remember when you would beef like a little girl over a scraped knee? Now you’ll be sobbing if you don’t get to use one of these wacky bandages! Choose bacon, pirate or kisses. order them online here The website is fredflare.com and has lots of great gear here for the kitsch minded individual ‘it’s so crap it’s good’ or is it?. Well I’m off to bash my weak body on something hard, hope it cuts then…. yep! bring out the bacon ouch.
Corporate Image
The humble business card is often said to be the most important marketing tool you’ll ever use. So with that in mind I went with a narrow design and a spot UV. Opting for a very simple logo ‘hey I couldn’t really go crazy being a design myself now could I’ Also pictured is a logo + business card I developed for a company that offers writing and editing services ’Word Has It’ a website is also in production.
Many companies, such as McDonald’s and Electronic Arts, have their own identity that runs through all of their products and merchandise. The trademark “M” logo and the yellow and red appears consistently throughout the McDonald’s packaging and advertisements. Many companies pay large amounts of money for an identity that is extremely distinguishable, so it can appeal more to its targeted audience.
The Square Red Book
Well what can I say an ‘open brief’ and a client with an ‘open mind’. Perfect for a designer I would say. So from start to finish this was a great project although there was a great deal of graphs and tables to make look attractive.
Thanks to Apple and ’Numbers’ charts and graphs are made easy (well once you get the hang of it anyway).
Another tight deadline had me working all night but the result was worth it for my client and myself. See a full copy (PDF) on The Victorian Litter Action Alliance website.
More….cheeba
Rich in most varied emotions from melancholy to indignation Dive Deep offers thirteen splendid compositions, It’s such a wonderful album (Buy it)
Having sold 6 million albums, toured the world over, plumbed the depths of nervous exhaustion, and pushed their working relationships to breaking point, Morcheeba return with their new album Dive Deep, an emotional blueprint which has restored their faith in music.
Click here for their website.
BIG Industrial Design
OK this one was HUGE, I was contacted to produce artwork for one section of a large industrial product catalogue.
Well little did I know I’d end up doing all the repro on 1,500 pages and a re-design of the covers. This involved project management, getting 10,000 images print ready and so on……..
Allfasteners are a great client to work with and the result was epic (think Yellow Pages).
Players Guide
The brief was simple: A5 booklet - 28 pages, Corporate look, Colour (black and yellow are the Gamblers Help colours).
There was a very very tight ‘2 week’ turn around for design/layout, production and printing of 3000 booklets eeeeek….
Well, I met the timeline thanks to a great print rep and the client was very happy. So this was a nice quick professional job for me.