Why good design really makes a difference

May 10, 2011

It's a pet peeve of mine that the availability of illegal downloads of software like Photoshop has made the phrase "I know how to use Adobe CS" a coded-phrase for "graphic design is easy". The amount of times I've opened a psd file that someone has sent me (believing it's a perfectly acceptable print-ready file), [...]

Mantic Journal – Issue Two

March 15, 2011

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 Journal – First Issue!

February 22, 2011

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 [...]

OneNottingham – Logo and branding

May 20, 2010

A good friend of mine (who has helped me out with web development projects on more than one occasion) recently asked me to create the identity for a personal project of his.

Why design can't be billed by the hour

April 20, 2010

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.

Perry Miniatures – Dragoons

March 15, 2010

Hot on the heels of the last box for the Perry Miniatures box, the French Napoleonic Dragoons has just gone to press.

Advanced Resin Technologies – flyer design

March 8, 2010

This is a job I was asked to produce for Advanced Resin Technologies - a new flyer for advertising their services.

Perry Miniatures – Hussars

March 1, 2010

This is the latest box produced by Perry Miniatures for their (increasingly successful) wargame miniatures range. This is the seventh box I’ve worked on, the French Napoleonic Hussars.

New Perry Miniatures box

September 10, 2009

This is the latest box produced by Alan and Michael Perry for their (increasingly successful) wargame miniatures range. This is the sixth box I've worked on, the French Napoleonic Heavy cavalry. It should be in the stores soon!

Wavecrest Black Credit Card Design

June 28, 2009

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.