Northern Lace Press – Cover Design – Exploring Shawl Shapes

Front and Back covers, plus spine and all inner pages. A4 with bleed; 4C. 98 pages. Released 2015.

Northern Lace Press – Cover Design Glorious Gradients

Front and Back Covers, plus spine. A4 size with bleed; 4C.  180 pages.  Released 2018.

Northern Lace Press – Cover Design Patterns for North Ronaldsay Yarn

Front and Back Covers, plus spine. A4 size with bleed; 4C. 114 pages. Released 2017.

Northern Lace Press Cover Series

A series of covers designed for Northern Lace Press.  The first four are for a series of workbooks; the last is a poster for a new book (still in the design stage).  All of these were featured on a printed brochure that will be available at the London Book Fair this week.

Day’s Eye Logo

Day’s Eye (an early form of the word “daisy”) contracted with me to design a logo based on the work I had done for the Tell Them of Us film and related items.  It was to echo a sister business, Crow’s Eye, but not look exactly the same.  I was able to track down the fonts used in the Crow’s Eye logo and imitate the size and placement of the type.  The icon that accompanies it came about as I was playing with a number of concepts:  camera aperture (the “eye”), eye movement, and gerbera daisies.

Northern Lace Press Logo

This is an example of a great collaboration between the client (Northern Lace Press) and the designer (me).  The client had a rough sketch.  I refined the design and chose the font.  Originally this was all one color (black), but later the client wanted to add color, suggesting blue or green.  We settled on the gradient so that the round symbol could  continue to act both as a ball of yarn and an expression of the earth.

MCR Ad Series

A series of 5 advertisements for a local group of attorneys.  The aim was to highlight specific aspects of their business.  These ads were designed to answer the question, “Why do I need an attorney for . . . ?”

Telephone

Given the drawing (left) from a technical manual, I created this realistic telephone using Photoshop.

Compass Remake

Called the N-1 Compass, this item is at the navigator station on the RC-135 flight deck.  The photograph is of the item as it appeared on a training device; I used Photoshop and Illustrator to recreate it.

Centenary Stitches Exhibition

The Centenary Stitches banner was created from images used in the book of the same name.  This banner was used on the wall posters in the exhibit which explained various aspects of costuming the film as well as clothing in the UK during WW1.  The Coats & Caps for Children is the cover for a book of patterns offered at no charge to visitors to the exhibition.  The background image is a recreation of the original cover, updated for the modern version of the patterns contained therein.  For this booklet I designed the cover, designed and typeset the inner pages, and I updated the five vintage knitting patterns contained in it.