Archive for July, 2009

31 JUL

Lovely vintage illustrations

I found this illustrated children’s book this morning in one of my local villages Hurspierpoint. I picked it up because it has some lovely vintage illustrations.

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30 JUL

French Navy Video

So here’s Camera Obscura’s video that goes with the single French Navy. It’s such a catchy, summery song, you’ll be humming it all day. Can you spot the swan inspiration?

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29 JUL

4AD

4AD who have signed Camera Obscura asked me to do a promo and a new single due to the sucess of My Maudlin Career. I’ve just recently finished the artwork for the promo Honey in the Sun and here it is.

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28 JUL

Cannongate Books

Another website where I worked with my friends at IfLooksCouldKill to help Cannongate redesign their Life of Pi website to coincide with the new 2009 edition.

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27 JUL

CCA Glasgow

The Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Glasgow asked my friends IfLooksCouldKill in Edinburgh to help them with a badly needed redesign to their website. At the time I was working with ILCK and did all the site designs and layouts for the CCA website.

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27 JUL

Camera Obscura

4AD asked me to do the new website for Camera Obscura to go along with their new album released this year. They asked me to design it in such a way that it could be updated through a blog as it’s main content managment system (CMS).

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27 JUL

Unique Venues of Edinburgh

Unique Venues of Edinburgh are a group of venues ranging from the quirky to the incredible. They asked IfLooksCouldKill to redesign them a more functional and user friendly website to help people find their perfect venue. I worked with ILCK to design the frontend bringing their image up to date and creating a website that [...]

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23 JUL

4AD

I was really excited when Tracyanne Campbell from Camera Obscura signed to 4AD asked me to design the new album cover for My Maudlin career which came out recently. She’d seen some of my other stuff I had done, including the work I did for Island Records and Attic Lights.

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23 JUL

A wee craft project

I’m an avid reader of design sponge and I love looking through the DIY craft projects. I read this post today which I think would be dead easy to do and would be a good excuse to use up all the countless scraps of material that I collect at a faster rate than I use [...]

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22 JUL

Island Records

Having worked with Attic lights for several years, Island Records asked me to continue doing their artwork when they signed them in 2007. I completely handled their album artwork, filled with illustrations on every page and artworked to strict standards and tight deadlines.
I also edited the artwork for marketing purposes including ads, fliers, posters and [...]

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