Dominic Finley is a singer/songwriter who has worked in the UK and USA. There’s a full bio on his site, but this quote from the site (below) sums-up his career and music in a glance:
For the last decade and a half Dominic Finley has successfully adapted to various different styles of music. He has moved though Brit-pop, Motown and jazz, to more recently doing session work and playing progressive rock with Combination Head and classic pop-rock with the recently reformed Cutting Crew.
Before I write about the CD Design I produced for Dominic, here is one of his tracks entitled “As Often is the Case”. It’s a great song—and I recommend that you let it play whilst reading the rest of this post—it’s quite mellow and relaxing… [...] Continue Reading…
A whole three weeks have passed since initially recording an introductory video—but here it is. After nine takes of mindless blabbering and forgetting what to say, here’s the video as it stands now.
I’ll probably record a new one when time permits, but it’ll do for now. I’m no pro at this kind of stuff, but this video allows you, my blog readers and clients alike to see who I am, what I do—and how dreadful my video making skills are, hehe…
A few weeks back, I posted a video about my new Business Card Design. I talked about many aspects of the design, but neglected to put it through the ultimate durability test: How indestructible was it? [...] Continue Reading…
Way back at University, one of my design tutors was a well-know designer and illustrator. He told me that he once turned down a substantial design contract for a major company because he didn’t agree with their work ethos.
This seemed very strange to me at the time. I thought that if you’re a designer, you would design anything for anyone (within reason) because it’s your job. You need money to pay the bills and spend all your working life with a fully booked diary of work…right?
Below is a list of over 20 designers who have generously shared their thoughts on the matter; all answering the same question: What (or Who) wouldn’t you design for? Some answers are short and some are longer, but they all offer valuable insights into this burning question, including my own. Here goes: [...] Continue Reading…
Edit Websites is a powerful web solution that enables its users to effortlessly edit their websites with little or no web-skills. There are five website services in all, with Edit Websites comprising of Holiday Edit, Church Edit, School Edit and Plus Edit.
Kyle Cottington, the man behind the whole operation tasked me to design a cohesive set of logos that work both individually and as a whole. As an existing client, Kyle hired me to work on one concept that would work for all five logos.
My first step was not to start designing on the Mac, but to conceptualise my thoughts with pen and paper. My tools of choice area simple black Bic® Ballpoint pen and a MoleSkine® squared notebook. The image below shows how I started the logo design process: [...] Continue Reading…
This ain’t The New Yankee Workshop, but here’s some photos I took whilst building a new home office, showing the construction in various stages, along with some humour for good measure. I’m not going to talk about what screws I used, or what brand of products, etc, but you’re welcome to ask any details in the comments section after the post.
A little Background Info
18 months ago, I was happy in my small, but quaint office upstairs at my home here near Leeds, England, UK. As can be seen in the photo below, I had a great view of the bowling green at the rear of my back yard—and all the tweeping birds and such-like. However, as my wife gave birth to our second baby, I needed to relinquish my office and turn it into a nursery.
