Banner-based fun

My good friend Leanne Moden is a most excellent writer, and recently found the land of blogs.

So I designed a banner for her blog, "Never Trust a Womble", to be found... http://tenyearstime.blogspot.com/ ... here.

And here it is! For the full sized version, check out Leanne's blog, and have a good read as well.

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A Little Thank You

About a month ago, for a special treat, two of my friends organised a surprise day for me. They got me all dressed up, took me for dinner and cocktails, and then whisked me off to see Cirkus Cirkor; this travelling Swedish circus show.

It was pretty amazing, and a fantastic day all round, so I decided to make my friends some thank-you notes. (this is something that got drummed into me from an early age, my mum used to give me thankyou note sets in my christmas stocking)

Anyway, here is one of the thankyou notes i did in cut paper; I always think your feelings are expressed more sincerely when there's a risk of serious scalpel-based injury. I've had to wait until they got them, which is why it's taken so long to post... but tada!

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Shadow Puppets

Greetings!

My mate Catie works as a props mistress for a dramatics society called YAT, who recently did a production of The Labours of Heracles (better known as Hercules).

Being rather weighed down by the making of hydra heads and giant skeletal hands (don't ask) she asked me to come up with some shadow puppets for part of the play.

So here is Heracles, the Stymphalian Birds, the Erymanthian Boar and the Cerynian Hind. (Background wise: the birds were meant to be impervious to harm and were said to be able to fire their feathers like arrows, the hind belonged to the goddess Artemis and was meant to be the fastest animal alive and the boar... well the boar was just a mahussive boar tbh)

They were recorded in action and projected onto the stage and the whole production was a complete success! Hooray!

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The Oyster Chandeliers

The last two in the Chandelier Posters series; the concept with this one was the same chandelier in different colours, that give a completely different atmosphere to a place.

The black chandelier is quite sleek, and almost a bit ominous; like a cyclone of bats, but the white one reminds me of sails, or feathers.

Here are the posters anyway, hope you like them!

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The Swarovski Chandelier

This chandelier's particularly funky, in that its actually designed to change shape. It's made from skirts of crystal beads in concentric circles, that start on the same level, and descend into this crystal spike formation - pretty cool huh? Design by George Singer, poster by me.

And this is the point in the internship I fully embraced the lens-flare as a tool in my work (although I couldn't settle for the preset photoshop version - and had to construct my own)

Speak soon!

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A brief break from my chandelier posters: I got offered the chance to do a cover design for Read This, a poetry magazine based in Edinburgh.

So here is my jazzy Shakespeare cover, along with a couple of little famous literary peeps for inside the mag - two of the three bears, Dracula (and Igor), Harry Potter, and Poirot.

Enjoy!

H

The Honolulu Chandelier

The Honolulu Chandelier! Porcelain dancer's legs in various poses with powder pink skirts.

There'll probably be single lamps available at some point.

This one was quite hard to get right, because my favourite part of my original design - the vegas style typefaces - just didn't work with the complete design and had to be cut. What one of my tutors used to call 'killing your babies'. On that note...

Speak to you soon!

H