Another trip to the bookshop

I went to bookcase today to take some photos for my dissertation project. I got all the images I needed plus I managed to buy six books while at it. Shots of the finished piece will follow shortly.

A morning of photography

 I finished printing some book jackets the other day and today photographed them in one of the photography studios I was impressed with the outcome and my wee camera shone with all the bits attached to it.

I found some great packaging

I decided yesterday that I wanted to make fudge, so went out and about in the search for ingredients and found this in Marks & Spencer. I recon its a pretty sexy piece of packaging design it certainly looks a lot better than Tesco own brand stuff but then it does cost a lot more. The fudge also turned out very nice.

emergency post

I have been a bad person and have not posted anything for a while, I have been designing my socks off but have not actually got anything totally finished in the last week but I was trawling through my memory stick and found this old picture of my granddad at a show probably many years ago, he was a shepherd, and I actually own a similar jacket to his from my days working on a farm.

The Massacre on Charles Street

This is for a book jacket I am designing. I needed some blood splatter. I didn't want to get hurt so red paint was a good substitute, in this experiment I stuck 8 sheets of A3 paper together and filled a balloon with red paint. the plan was to stick the balloon the she sheet and pierce it with a dart causing an exciting explosion, the explosion was not so exciting but manually squirting paint etc crated a decent effect.

Brilliant Weather

I thought I would take a moment to praise the brilliant weather we have been having. It seems that a bit sunshine really does bring out the best in people, smiling faces and a generally fresher outlook. Long may it last. Huzzah.

The Book Shop

I took a trip down to the bookshop this morning, this is my idea of a good time, but I am different. I bought a couple of books to read, one of them was a Penguin from 1940 to add to my small but growing collection. I then ate a foot long sub something I now regret.