Letts Design a Diary piece

This is my piece for Letts Design a Diary Competition which i got RUNNER UP(which i am very proud of and on announcement i treated myself to a few cocktails and a shopping spree hehe)I won £250 which was a treat for my lonely bank account and watch the local press space cos their might me a wee mention of me.  Soooo happy about this little win. Thank you Letts.

My piece was all done in Gesso transfers ink and using found scraps from old books (which yes do lie in my house, quite uneatly actually).

Stag Aberdeen Logo

Given the brief of a Stag was definitely an unusual one for me.  Firstly I started brainstorming all sorts of ideas but knew it was important for the Stag to be included in the Logo design. These are a few other ideas I tried out which did not make the cut.

FINAL LOGO

This is the final design that we decided to go with.  The basis of this logo is put together with found scraps which stays true to my style.  This logo does not look over computerised which is important as I think it can easily become too flat and look like every other logo around.  I want to start to a new kind of logo design with my style which has a tactile, artistic quality that differentiates it away from the other logos around, as essentially a logo is still art.

The Wedding

Selection of my favourite pieces of work I completed for this album. They have all been done with gesso and ink with found scraps.  My real favourites are the first and last images which look great in the album aswell.  I might even do something with them in the summer like put them onto bags or vests.

Collage

Im posting some personal work. The work i love doing. Putting pieces tgoether from different sources. It some times take me hours just to put these things together, seeing what goes and what doesent. My Assessments are just over so im having a little break from it all but really im not. Still doing little bits and bob including my true passion collage. I am actually trying to source a little bit of new pieces of fabric, scraps, decoupage this is when i miss The Barras in glasgow there used to be this man he had a stall that was full of old French Newspapers, Badges, sent postcards, buttons. This place wasnt a dream. If i won the lottery i would have bought everything from him. He understood just like me that these things are worth something. Others just used to look at me weirdly because i would scrunch up on the floor and just look through all of these things. He had a story for each thing near enough. I feel lucky to have experienced that.