Velvet Brigade: Crowdsourcing Fashion Designs
Crowd sourcing. Sometimes, especially within design, can be quite an ugly word; many people enter a competition, putting a lot of effort in, and only one can win. There’s always a danger that crowd-sourcing designs and ideas can mean you get a watered down version, or in this case, when the competition is voted for...
Interview with Jotta.com
The kind folks at Jotta.com have just launched a competition in conjunction with Wacom Bamboo, and are on the hunt for drawn definitions of ‘Style’. They asked to interview me on my own opinions of the definition of style, especially within fashion illustration. Click here to read the full article on jotta.com – here’s a...
Greetings Cards for Tigerprint Hand Drawn Type Competition
These are the final 3 designs I submitted to the Hand Drawn Type Competition from Tigerprint. I hand drew all elements using fineliner, pencil, coloured pencil, and ink, and then scanned them into Photoshop, where I collaged all the pieces together and added more colour if necessary. I wanted to use bold typographical imagery and...
Coveting: Hush Puppes Shoeperstar winner…
I saw this Hush Puppies Shoeperstar competition when it came out and thought it was a great idea. I didn’t take part because… well I can’t design shoes. I wasn’t entirely sure what the outcome would be, because while Hush Puppies are amazingly comfortable (I bought some while I worked at Schuh, in a plum...
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YCN Student Awards 2010: Ted Baker Brief
I’m really excited about this year’s YCN Student Awards Briefs. There are so many good ones! It took me a while to to decide which one to do… I almost thought of doing 2 but didn’t want to make life stupidly hard for myself. Here are the ones which I found most interesting: Action Aid...
Penguin Design Award 2010
The Penguin Design Award is such a great competition, I can’t really ignore it this year, even though I’m not eligible to enter any more. Such is the way of non-studentness :( However, what’s interesting is that for the first time, they are letting MA students take part. This is good news for me as...
Dawdlr
I completely forgot that I did this. Dawdlr is a great little site, a small pocket of rebellion against an online world that is ‘updated’ every single second with what people are doing, where, through status updates, twitter, you know all that jazz. Dawdlr asks the question “What are you doing, you know, more generally?”...
ChickenOut! Label Competition – My entry
This has taken me a while to post this. Anyway, the charity Chickenout! and Compassion in World Farming ran a competition a few weeks back, to redesign the Standard Chicken label for Tesco. “Pick up a standard chicken in most supermarkets and the package is unlikely to tell you much about how that chicken was...
Semester 2: Image & Text Project
This project was tough but I loved it. It was based around the Penguin Design Award competition; it wasn’t compulsory to enter to pass the module but of course I did. As well as producing the book cover for our chosen book, we had to also illustrate a Single and Double page spread from an...
