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Mantic Journal – Issue Two

Turts — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:00:34 +0000

I recently published images from the first issue of the Mantic Journal. Hot on the heels of that post comes the second issue. This one really started to expand and polish the look and feel of the magazine – by this point we'd really started to get a feel for how we wanted to portray the Mantic world. It also included a map that Guy and I had worked on to give avid readers a chance to flesh out the world in their minds.

As before, there are several images below.

The Mantic Journal – First Issue!

Turts — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:42:30 +0000

As regular readers will know, I spent just over six years working at Games Workshop. For almost half my time there, I worked on White Dwarf, the industry-leading magazine for tabletop gaming. During that time, I worked under three editors, Paul Sawyer, Andy Stewart and Guy Haley.

Guy recently contacted regarding a project he would soon begin work on for Mantic Games (a company that, coincidentally, I already produce packaging work for), and enquired whether I would be interested in working with him on the inaugural issue of their magazine. Naturally, I blurted out "I'd love to" – (who wouldn't want to work on a magazine from scratch?).

And so, The Mantic Journal came into being. I've attached some pics here. I'll be adding new images from each issue as we go. Hope you like...

Why design can't be billed by the hour

Turts — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:44:00 +0000

I Read a post today by Steve Zelle on his website, concerning why design is not something that is quantifiable to the extent that you can say designing Project X will take Y hours and therefore cost you Z.

He obviously makes his point far more eloquently than I could - give it a read.

Wavecrest Website Design

Turts — Sat, 30 May 2009 09:15:23 +0000

Wave Crest is a financial services company which develops and manages custom payment processing solutions for its clients. Their open standards based eMoney platform enables them to develop, integrate and operate private labeled prepaid card programs to meet the unique needs of their clients . Through their “Total Program Management” offering they assist their clients in all phases of developing, integrating and managing card programs specific to their business needs.

After completing work on the new brand logo, I was asked to style the new website to launch the company.

Wavecrest Logo Design

Turts — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:22:48 +0000

After working with their Chief Operating Officer Miles Paschini on previous projects, I was asked to create a logo for the new brand.