Wee Bird

A happy wee birdy having a nice old perch. Species undefined.

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Line Rampant

Because I have a bit of a thing for heraldry but a general tendency towards simplicity I thought I'd rationalize Scotland's ancient emblem, the gules Lion Rampant, and so came up with this line-drawn geometric effort.

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Flags:

Baseball Monogram (2016)

I decided to revisit the baseball-inspired monogram which I dropped last summer. I felt that the 'A' was a little clumsy and that the whole thing was just lacking a bit of edge. I'm much happier with this update.

Three styles:

Typeface - Torsade

I've just finished this line-drawn decorative typeface. It's sort of made of interweaving paperclips. (A torsade is a fancier word for a plait!)

Wordmark:

Illuminated letter and a full alphabet:

Dropped shadows:

The Cherry Blossom Front

As one of the world's most esoteric societies there is much about Japan that I find genuinely fascinating. The Cherry Blossom Front - or Sakura Zensen - where people up and down the country eagerly anticipate the flowering of the cherry tree between March and May is one area where the Japanese excel themselves in their cultural idiosyncrasy. Through the use of maps resembling those used in weather forecasts various media agencies keep the population updated on the progress of the blossoms (and the coming of spring) as the spectacle moves up the country from subtropical southern Kyushu to the northern extremities of Hokkaido a full two months later.

To celebrate this year's forecast I have designed my own - purely artistic - map of the 'front', taking cues from the pared-down traditions of Japanese art and design and my abiding love of schematic mapping.

Happy Hanami to all those enjoying 2016's display!

The Hell of the North

Here's a poster to celebrate the greatest of cycling's cobbled classics, Paris-Roubaix. If Saul Bass had been a fan of the sport (I don't know that he wasn't) he might just have designed something like this; a raw and dirty poster for a raw and dirty race. The 114th edition of l'enfer du Nord is this Sunday, April 10th.

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