Getting It Out

As a designer, when I’m looking for that little spark of inspiration the first thing I generally do is open Firefox and start sifting through the interweb for anything that grabs my attention. I have a few sites bookmarked and yesterday I added another which is worthy of note. Still very much in it’s infancy, in fact […]

Fed up with your Athena art prints (are they still about?). Then check out these great, limited edition prints from Pushmepullyou Design. Founded by Eleanor Grosch in Philadelphia the studio produces some great and simple screenprints and band posters which are bound to brighten any bedroom/lounge/kitchen/studio (delete where applicable). Check out the rest of their portfolio and […]

I just found these ultra cool, flat-pack toys and the best thing of all is that they are free. Called Readymechs, all you need is a few sheets of thick A4 paper, double sided tape and some patience. Okay so the paper and the tape might cost you a few pence but hey […]

Well, as some of you may know I spent the last couple of years amongst other things, designing a golf bag and all of the communications materials for it. It had been an arduous project which for me has now come to a close. However, they seem to be getting half decent promotion done - look […]

I believe everyone should have one of these handy at all times… For those moments like yesterday when, after 8 hours solid of Power Point work I finally kicked back, opened a beer, ate some pizza and sat down to watch a movie….. only for my DVD player to pack up half way through. “Aaaaarrrrghhhhhh - […]

So how do you celebrate your birthday these days? Do you go on a traditional ‘lads’ weekend to Prague and get bolloxed on meths and Absinth and consequently go blind for 3 days? Or do you do nothing but wait in your local for the 60 year old stripper to turn up that your friends […]

Ok, not my most favourite piece, but these adverts for Tri Bag were exactly on brief and the client was chuffed. The adverts have now been redesigned to fit within a politically correct spot worthy of Jade’s eviction night. But for your viewing pleasure here are the originals

I am absolutely loving the most beautiful illustration work by Si Scott. Go check out the rest of his work at his website and fall in love with it too. www.siscottdesign.com

I love photoshop brushes, usually the grungier the better but the other day I was hunting around the blogosphere when I stumbled over Design Fruit. A portfolio site of designer Jason Gaylor who has a habit brewing for designing beautiful brushes of the foliage variety. He also has some excellent worn brush sets as well as graffiti […]