Emily & Jo Wedding Designs Coverage
I was really pleased to see on the Emily&Jo Facebook page today that their wedding stationery designs have been featured in Wedding Ideas Magazine’s top ‘we love’ section, as shown below. Read the rest of this entry »
Fitzjohn Product Packaging Design
Recently, longstanding client Fitzjohn Skincare sent me a sample of her newly printed product containers. These have been designed by Truly Ace using the existing brand identity originally created by us in 2007 and I feel they have come out beautifully 
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For Larks
Which music video is this from?
Cupid Character Illustrations
In March last year we gave established dating website Cupid.co.uk an overhaul, including modernising and refreshing their existing illustrative logo design; featuring a cupid character.
Cupid.co.uk contacted us to discuss their recent design needs and advised that they would like six different poses created for the existing cupid character so that it could be used more around the www.cupid.co.uk website without being repetitively in the same pose. Read the rest of this entry »
Vintage Rocks Hair Parlour
I do so love it when ‘vintage’ meets ‘business’ A while ago I happened upon Vintage Rocks Hair Parlour online, probably whilst leering at other vintage things one day.
I was really impressed by their unique brand image and how professionally this is presented and very importantly ‘adhered’ to in each and every way they market themselves. Read the rest of this entry »
Product Label Designs
Organics Earthics got in touch yesterday to very kindly send in these photos of their printed label designs and let me know how happy they are with the outcome of the final product. Read the rest of this entry »
David Airey Exposes Shutterstock Artist
I know there are a hell of a lot of cheeky ‘designers’ (word very loosely used in this scenario) out there, but this example is just amazing … check out how David Airey exposes how someone blithely sells the MGM lion in vector illustration format on Shutterstock for £29 a pop: Read the rest of this entry »
Another Card Competition
Weirdly enough after receiving an email from Stack about their competition, I just completely randomly stumbled across a Hallmark competition for ‘funny birthday cards’.
Use of the words old, special or party were banned and so I came up with this below 
Christmas Card Competition
If you’re in the mood for some festive doodling, ‘Stack‘ have an A6 Christmas card design competition (£250 prize) running at the moment that may interest you. You have until Monday 28th November to submit.
The competition is open to all illustrators, photographers, designers and anyone else who fancies having a go and needs to include the concepts of Christmas and Magazines.
The winner will receive £250 cash and their design will be printed up into real Christmas cards and sent out to all Stack subscribers and sold via the Stack site. Two runners-up will also receive Stack gift subscriptions.
Winners and runners up will be announced on the Stack blog on 1 December. The winner will also be contacted by email.
Christmas Marketing Tips
And so the Christmas marketing season begins in earnest. I’ve just created the December advert for local women’s only gym ‘Gym & Slim’, as part of their year long local newspaper advertisement marketing plan. Gym & Slim capitalise on events such as Christmas, New Year, Easter and more throughout the year to market their business to new customers. Read the rest of this entry »
