I used to tell people, “I paint rocks”, but when everyone took that to mean that I was painting on rocks, I changed it to “I’m painting portraits of pebbles”, quite a different thing! I have always been a pebble … Continue reading Painting Portraits of Pebbles
When this postcard challenge came up I had just finished scanning about seven day’s worth of photos from a trip to Japan and Vietnam, roughly 1/6 of our trip photos that exist in two huge over-stuffed albums. Postcards from … Continue reading Postcards From the Past
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 meme. However, I am currently doing 3rd editions for a … Continue reading Quotes, Memes and Cover Art
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 listing and sketching absolutely everything that came to mind. Literal: … Continue reading Brainstorming ‘Ultra-Cold’
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 financial bubble. The original is a ‘Black Parrot’ tulip out in … Continue reading Cover Designs Featuring Tulips, April’s Plant of the Month
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 elements. I was designing a website for the University Chemistry Department … Continue reading Cosmic Challenge: The Periodic Table of the Elements
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 the connection cables were translucent.A lot of the old programs I … Continue reading One Word Challenge: ‘Vintage’ Computer
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 if you wanted to communicate with a printer. They contained … Continue reading One Word Challenge: Pantone Colours
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, although I think the angles were provided by a reflective … Continue reading Travel Theme: Geometric Angles & Posters
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 one of our first websites around 1996. Back then web … Continue reading One Word Challenge: Sun Symbols / Símbolos del Sol
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