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  • Mengage – Illustrations and Website

    It was great to be asked to work with a previous client and now friend on on the set up of a brand new project.

    Mengage is a UK-based not-for-profit company working with males on health and social issues, providing resources, training, consultancy and practical research-based solutions from both national and international practice, backed by years of experience of practical work with men and boys.

    Mengage website illustration

    I contributed both the website, logo and some illustrations to the project. The illustrations were produced both to be used on the website itself and in a number of print publications.

    I’ve wanted to have the opportunity of placing some illustrations within a website layout for some time, stock images are fine but they can sometimes feel, and be, a little generic and forgettable. I think where the illustrations appear within the new website they do help to give the project and a little more depth and a more unique visual identity. The logo was also produced as a metal badge, cut to shape to help with promotion and identity, it came out really well.

    Anyway, click here to visit Mengage, If you are putting a project together, do consider illustration along side stock photography, I may well be biased but I think its an underused option.

    Mengage Website Screenshot

  • Custom Flag Painting

    This was a custom design which was to be hand painted onto a flag. As such the design was just a rough sketch, but that said I do quite like how it turned out.

    I’ll do my best to get a photo of the completed flag when we get a sunny day where the wind is blowing in the right direction!

    Hand painted flag design - front

    Hand painted flag design - rear

    In a roundabout way these car drawings eventually lead to the ‘Weabazoot Industries‘ project.

  • Roadside 14-1-15

    Hmm…

    This is Number 22 in the apparently increasingly occasional series of roadside photos.

    Roadside 14-1-15 - Peugeot 405, High Peak

    Happy New Year anyway, and Happy Birthday for last year top… sorry that I missed it.

  • All Mod Cons

    Logo design is clearly an art in itself. I’ve seen the kind of work you get on those “$5’s for a logo with unlimited revisions” websites* and while its not always true you get what you pay for, I think its good to find someone with some talent in the design field.

    This is all just a long winded way to post the following.

    A friend of mine was launching a new forum as, while Facebook may be great for keeping in touch its groups and pages don’t work very well or give you many options to manage and organise information – Anything a few days old is pretty much lost in the either.

    The forum is named All Mod Cons and is aimed to be new a forum for enthusiasts of modified cars.

    All Mod Cons - Logo

    The logo needed to be multifunctional so it could both be used as an identity for the website and across social media as well as suitable for promotional items and stickers. As such there were two main designs…

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  • The View from the Office

    I wasn’t thinking of the film Blue in the Face when I started this but…

    So I started taking photographs from the office kitchen window around 2009 when we moved offices and tumblr was still a thing.

    One each morning while the computers were warming up at around 8am. Dates are approximate as I tended to upload a weeks worth and file them to filter in to the tumblr over the following week.

    I changed camera once  during this and also I seem to have lost a bunch of early ones, due largely to not thinking of setting up a tumblr to upload/archive them until I was several months in.

    This all ended in 2013 when we were ‘urban renewed’ out of the office. In Bromsgrove of all places!

    This is was The view from the office…