Scotland in Triangles

Just a simple concept map. The essential angles of Scotland's geography/geology (especially the Highland and Great Glen fault lines) really lend themselves to this triangular representation of the country. With apologies to Shetland:

Capercaillie

Some simple geometric illustrations of the Caledonian Forest's most charismatic bird in full display ('lekking').

Standard; Badge:

Alternates:

Thinner:

Badges / Birches

The Silver Birch might just be my favourite tree. I love the thin elegant shape of its trunk and the horizontal zebra-stripe pattern of the bark. And because I want the whole world to know just how much I love the Birch I set about creating these simple designs for a set of round pin badges.

Autumn sunset; Winter sunset:

Autumn (alternate); Winter night:

PS Big shout out to the Beech and the Scots Pine. It was a close-run thing...

Clydebuilt

A wee identity project for a possible apparel brand. The city of Glasgow is inextricably linked to its river, the Clyde, and to shipbuilding - in spite of the long steady decline of that industry. At one stage in the early 1900s two in every five vessels globally were launched on the Clyde and the local expertise in shipbuilding led to the term 'clydebuilt' becoming a shorthand for quality and robustness.

All rust-red chains and that:

Badges - Cycle Brand

To expand upon my recent 'Doyle' branding project I thought I'd make some badges.

Standard:

Variations (thick type):

Variations (thin type):

Alternate:

Cycle Brand

Some identities for an imagined cycling brand. I'd been playing around with the chain link motif and it developed into this wordmark, picking out the contours of the bike chain with fluid lettering. The slant, meanwhile, adds a fairly classic cycling edge to these logos:

Three-faced God

I was looking through an old history textbook and came across a carving of a three-faced deity found at a Celtic shrine in Soissons, France. I really liked the bold line-work and the simplicity of the repeating motif so I thought I'd have a go at something similar: