The Gallery Liverpool

Header for the exhibition on the website.

For a recent project we were designing promotional banners and posters for an exhibition about 2000 years of shoes. One major thing about designing promotional pieces is that they must have a common consistency. So as a blog activity we were asked to look at gallery promotional prices for an on-going exhibition. So i looked at the Liverpool Art Gallery, the exhibition is entitled  Unauthorised Realities



This is the web page for the exhibition itself



The consistencies on the web pages are the use of the artist’s work Naive John which also carries on to his page on the Gallery web site. Other consistencies include the same clear font throughout as well as a continuing colour scheme. 

With the promotional poster that artists work is still used as well as a similar if not the same clear font.

its christmas!

So it’s the 8^th of December time to make some charismas card I think. Only one problem is my printer has run out of colour. So what Christmas card design can I do that’s cute and in black and white. My first though was a penguin but that’s a bit boring without the yellow tummy. So the only other white thing that was cute and fluffy was a polar bear. So happy Christmas people and here is this year’s Christmas card.

the dm

Short for the Dr Martens.

Whilst doing my shoe research for the last couple of projects which were, well bases on shoes. I did a bit of research on the DM seeing as I own a pair. The first website I looked at was the DM website which has a very informative page about their history and how they were invented which is quite an interesting tail.   http://store.drmartens.co.uk/t-history.aspx It also includes this video.

I also looked at how they were made and the different components which make them so darn comfy (after the 2 month wearing in period which can involve some pain). http://www.drmartensforlife.com/for-life-products/

 I also looked a book published about DM's by Dr Martens (there all about advertising and promotion) which talks a lot about the DM's role in culture which was quite interesting.  ) Heres a link to buy it on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dr-Martens-AirWair-Ltd/dp/B001J1JUXC/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323095883&sr=1-10 )

Dr Martens are currently running a 'First and forever' campaign where you can talk about you first ever DM's which I must admit I think is a bit weird but here’s a video from their website promoting the campaign.

Website idea

This is a quick idea for my home page for my website which I will be making next year.

I put it together in one of my illustrator lessons, think it might need a bit of improving before it gets put up on the world wide web.

elizabeth perry

After a recent lecture in which she was featured in I had a look at more of her work on her website, and I really liked it. Her line drawings especially carry conviction and smoothness. She also arranges her images on the page in interesting ways. Her watercolour studies are also fascinating especially the ones of objects with shadows.

She dose daily drawings in a sketchbook which she uploads onto her website http://www.elizabethperry.com/woolgathering/ definitely worth a look.

Shoe work in progress

The above two images were inspired by Anne Magill and her dry brush technique.

If the shoe fits

My latest project is all about Primary research and how you have to know about something before you can design for it. The object that I have to focus on is the shoe. As well as well as drawing and painting some of the images have to be done using photography, these are just a few of the photographs I have taken looking at shoes.


Bit of experimenting with close cropping





In the above two images i was looking at lighting and filter effects.