Good news for lovers of moustaches – the Glasgow School of Art shop is once again stocking the world famous Mackintaches! We’ve also finally got ourselves in gear to put something up at the Mackintache site - the address is printed on the reverse of every Mackintache card. I drew a picture of cheery Charles Rennie Mackintosh so that anyone unfamiliar with his smart moustache would have a reference point. All the information is there. I’d love to say they’re available in my shop, but they are exclusive to the Art School at present, so if you want one, you’ve just got to go there and pick it up.
You can choose from an elastic Mackintache made of felt or a plastic brooch ‘tache – then you can choose to wear it on a t shirt or your face. I wouldn’t recommend the brooch for your face though. Drop me a line if you want to know more about this silly endeavour, I’ll be happy to elaborate.
news posted by rosie on 22nd June 2011 at 2:35pm
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My work as an Oxfam volunteer generally amounts to much more than this, but this is what my role is within the group, as well as general dogsbody. I’m a member of the Glasgow Fundraising team and I am the graphics girl. These are two logos for upcoming events that I have designed according to the discussions of the group. (For clarification, I didn’t design the Oxfam logo itself…)
The Wheel to the Wheel event is a pun laden sponsored cycle ride from Glasgow to the Falkirk Wheel – a cool thirty miles away. In case you’re feeling crazy, you can sponsor me, as of course I have been roped in as a participant! You can join in too – it’ll be a great day, some might add that it’ll be wheely good – or that you should crank it up a gear for Oxfam. See what I did there?
Anyway… the Films for a fiver logo is for a monthly event we hope to kickstart soon where we screen classic and cult movies that rarely, if ever, make it to the big screen. I tried to give the logo an analogue, grainy, black and white movie feel. More on that as it comes to fruition.
news posted by admin on 15th June 2011 at 9:03am
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Over the past months, I have been involved in a community access project with a group in Stirling. Their group, Cultenhove Opportunities (COP) have commissioned me to produce a ‘Passport to…’ which will be a tool for social change and participation in the community. As part of this project, I have been doing research, testing and trials – it takes me back to my design roots! But also, I developed a series of preliminary drawings for a first pilot of this Passport. It isn’t a finished article yet, but it begins trials in the next fortnight or so – we’ll have to wait and see what happens with it.
This drawing is the crest for the front cover – hopefully you’ll notice most of the elements of a British Passport coat of arms – this one has the COP logo at the top, people instead of the beasts and a new centre image and motto. I tried to reflect the fact that the Passport is concerned with health and community. You can see more of the images in the illustration section.
news posted by admin on 12th June 2011 at 8:33am
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If you’re looking for something a bit silly and a bit different for a birthday greeting, why not take a look at this cut card with windows? The design is printed on the inside so the front is completely bare – except for the windows cut into it so you can peek inside. When closed, the card reads “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” in nice crisp, neat letters. When opened – ta da! It’s a mad negative picture of the letters, surrounded with all manner of ridiculous things; look out for a bird, cocktail, cactus, pencil, tree, road sign… There’s a lot of stuff going on here. It’s available in my new shop! At the moment, it is hand cut, but I’m seeing if I can persuade it to be laser cut, saving me the trouble of slicing out all the rectangles myself. It comes in a nice envelope with a stamped image of lines for you to write your address. Brilliant.
news posted by admin on 9th June 2011 at 8:15am
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This is becoming a bit of a dirty habit these days, but the call for Amelia’s Magazine illustrations (and the coverage that follows) is just too much for me to turn down. Meet King Creosote and Jon Hopkins; the article I assisted illustrating is an interview of them on their new (and rather whimsical) collaborative album, Diamond Mine.
For this illustration, I looked through some images of the two artists, as well as the cover for their new album. All I did was amalgamate the two; mixing drawn portraits of them with the illustrated backdrop of their album cover. The actual cover is primarily taken up with an old sepia photograph of two salty sea dogs (or ‘sailors/fishermen’ for those not well versed in nautical jargon) resting on a cliffside bench. It turned out well for a short go! Although my drawing of Jon Hopkins looks more like a young George Clooney than I intended, but that’s not such a terrible thing in the long run.
news posted by rosie on 4th June 2011 at 11:44pm
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