Quotes, Memes and Cover Art
Nancy Merrill’s Challenge for this week is ‘Memes’, the combination of a quote and a photo. Despite being a graphic artist in my former life I have never done a […]
Category Archives: Design
Brainstorming ‘Ultra-Cold’
About 15 years ago I was asked to put together a site for ‘Ultra Cold’ Research. I proceeded to brainstorm the idea the way I was taught in art school, by […]
Cover Designs Featuring Tulips, April’s Plant of the Month
It’s tulip time again, and this month I wanted to design some book covers based on the 1637 tulip craze in Holland that resulted in the collapse of the world’s first […]
Cosmic Challenge: The Periodic Table of the Elements
I tried to put together something on the four classical elements of air, water, fire and earth, but it took too much time. So this is my ‘cheat’ post on the […]
One Word Challenge: ‘Vintage’ Computer
Hey, my old iMac still works! It was such a classic design with the translucent back that allowed one to see into the mysterious innermost workings of a computer. Even […]
One Word Challenge: Pantone Colours
While I was cleaning out all my ancient graphic art stuff that doesn’t get used anymore I found my Pantone Colour Specifier books. These damn things were hugely expensive and completely necessary […]
Travel Theme: Geometric Angles & Posters
I first noticed designs featuring geometric angles in 2011 in Kuala Lumpur. This Belgian geometric poster for the Triennale Brugge in 2015 reminds me a lot of the Malaysian poster, […]
One Word Challenge: Sun Symbols / Símbolos del Sol
Hispanic sun symbols (símbolos del sol) that I’ve been playing with in order to put together some logos for our 3-level Spanish course at Soleducational.com. Casa del sol (Home page) for […]
Roy Rogers & the Hotel Vancouver
When I was a freelance designer I was often told, “You should pay us for this job!” Most of the time it was pretty clear that they were the ones who should […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art for Books about South-East Asia
The more I work with ‘photo-apped’ photos, the more I find that they seem to ‘tell a story’ better than photos served up straight and unapped. Maybe that’s because I used to design book covers, […]
