Andrew Kelsall | Graphic Designer

Graphic Design Blog of Andrew Kelsall, Creative Designer of Logos, Posters and signage in Hemsworth, South Elmsall and Worldwide

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Design Week…and a Dodgy Picture of Me

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I was amazed last week to hear that I had a won a years free subscription to Design Week. I took part in a competition over at Graphic Design Forums, with the top prize been Adobe CS5 premium (all the winners are listed here). Since I only own the CS5 standard version, it would have made a great prize. However, I’m content with the prize I won. All I had to do to enter the competition was to tweet my entry. [...] Continue Reading…

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Beat the Credit Crunch with Amazing Design

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When we were in the midst of the credit crunch, did you hear words like “sub-prime”, “CDO” and “Hedge Fund”, but had little idea about how they were all connected and how this credit crunch derived? Well, I was a little confused myself, but recently I came across this great 2-part infographic by Good.is.
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The Person Looking in this Mirror is Responsible for their Health & Safety

I produce a fair amount of large-format prints as part of my business. Lately, I had some “spare printing space” when printing some designs for a British company.

So, I had 7 signs printed that read “The Person Looking in this Mirror is Responsible for their Health & Safety”.

THIS SIGN READS: THE PERSON LOOKING IN THIS MIRROR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR HEALTH & SAFETY

This sign reads: The Person Looking in this Mirror is Responsible for their Health & Safety.

This sign is unique with only a few produced. The sign has been professionally designed this year with a stunning design not found anywhere else online!
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The Typical Freelancer Workload

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Thanks to all my loyal readers and subscribers. You’ve done a great job sticking by me through a lack of posts lately.

The truth is I’m busy; busy designing, which is a good thing—but unfortunately I haven’t had time to update my main blog here at AndrewKelsall.com

Here’s what I’ve been busy with:

• A Logo design + WordPress website for a Singer/Songwriter

• Another Logo design + WordPress website for a Church

• A poster and leaflet campaign that appeared in local Job Centres (Yorkshire, UK)

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First Blog Post from iPad

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Alas, the iPad is finally here in the UK. I read posts about the pros and cons of the iPad before deciding to buy one for the following reasons:

1. To run my blog on (that is, writing new content and responding to comments).
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How to Design a CD Album for a Local Band

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Here is a CD Album Design I produced for a local band named “The Reeds”, a Christian-based 2-piece who produced music for the album “all in a days musing”. Even though I produced this artwork a few years back, it’s one of my favourite CD designs I have produced, so I thought I’d feature it.
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