Libraries

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    Tower Hamlets Teen Booklist 2014

    So my manager decides that we need a different design to the last few years, which have been rather clean and tidy, so I decided to return to the grunge […]

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    Pixel Library

    My pixel art Hogwarts is still ongoing, but this is my latest poster – the Tower Hamlets Schools Library Services in it’s new premesis. The design was intended to stand […]

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    THe List 2011: Spirit

    The final poster in the 2011 series, and the one that didn’t quite survive being turned into CMYK colors.

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    THe List 2011: Water

    I love this poster. The colours and composition just work. This was the first in the series that I created and it inspired the whole elemental symbolism of the others. […]

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    THe List 2011: Fire

    Poster 3 in the 2011 series was Fire. The art was a deliberate reversal of composition from Water, but re-used some elements of Air.

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    THe List 2011: Air

    Poster 2 of the 2011 series was Air. The background is predominantly skyscrapers and other architecture from around Tower Hamlets.

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    Reading with your child

    Reading with your child was a promotion for local parents encouraging them to make use of public libraries and bookshops.

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    The Z word

    Zombies. We tend to identify with the zombie apocalypse when you’ve had one of those days. Or weeks. Or years. When the world outside just seems to be, well, a […]

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Wonder : The launch of the 2013 Tower Hamlets Book Award

    Wonder : The launch of the 2013 Tower Hamlets Book Award

    I’d returned to PhotoShop for this poster because I knew I could use it to work up a highly detailed piece fairly quickly. I hadn’t intended it, but some entrants […]

  • Ebook lending review announced

    Industry specialists will look at the benefits of libraries lending ebooks in a move publishers say will have ‘serious implications’ for the book trade http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/sep/27/ebook-lending-libraries-government-review Just like policies on eBook […]

  • Bruce Willis vs Apple

    Now I always cheered for Alan Rickman in Die Hard, but no matter what, Bruce ‘the vest’ Willis innevitably ended up chucking him off a building. Lesson to all, American […]

  • Making a pact with the devil

    This one’s a late evening rant. You have been warned. Because it doesn’t matter how many morons who think that librarians are too stuffy to design a library are recruited at huge […]

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    Love and Hate

    This is the original uncensored poster with guns and knives intact. The brief was a contemporary art take on Romeo and Juliet, until a couple of head teachers decided that […]