I saw some nice illustrations on product packaging in December before my eye infection nearly blinded me for two weeks

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In Spring this year Marks & Spencer’s chief Stuart Rose reported that sales on the High Street hadn’t got any worse, but that they hadn’t got any better either.

From the looks of what I saw on the High Street yesterday he couldn’t be more right and maybe since his reassurances things have indeed now got worse.
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Hey Graphic Designers, I saw a board game just for you today!

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I went North a bit a couple of weekends ago, for a visit to the Peak District. Amazingly I’ve never been there although it’s not that far away from the Midlands.

Whilst I was there I popped into a lovely shop and saw these amazing illustrations as part of a range of high end products for Nougat London. I’ve never seen these before and was rather taken by them.

Outside of ‘products aimed at the teen market’ it’s rare to see such extensive use of illustrations in beauty product branding, so I was really pleased to find them.

These are my photos from the shop:
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Finally after months and months of banging on about it to all and sundry, I have installed and moved into my new office! It’s at the very bottom of my long garden and overlooks a big pond.

TA DAHHHH!!!

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I haven’t been to the Banksy exhibition - don’t love his work that much to be honest - but I know that lots of my readers probably do … therefore because I have friends in high places (my artistic sister…ahem…), I bring you 22 Banksy Bristol Exhibition photos.

I don’t understand a good two thirds of them to be honest.

Whola…..

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Whilst on holiday in Malta in Spring I discovered in the villa these beautifully illustrated table place mats.

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I had a meeting last week with one of my favorite clients ‘Active Dental’. Active Dental is a relatively newish business for them, but I’ve been designing for them for other ventures for over four years now. There are other arms to the business also such as Active Smile for instance.

I was really pleased at our meeting to observe that the Active Dental logo I designed for them over a year ago has stood one of the ultimate tests of a quality design - can it be embroidered!??
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I was sitting in our local Pizza Express on the 23rd December with my family after doing some last minute Christmas shopping and observed that the children’s activity books were more fetching than your standard activity sheet/book offered by most restaurants.
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Whilst out and about on my travels again I found a corker of a business brand, absolutely brilliant and I have lots of photos for you and information about the artist involved
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