A lunar eclipse occurs when Sun, Earth and Moon are in a perfect alignment, as we all learnt at school . . .
Well three things came together recently and there is some fugitive sendipity, some tangential connection between them so I thought I would take out my iQuill and see if I can resolve them.
When you really care about something you want to get it right. Right? And I do care about Heroines & Harridans. The shared relish and enthusiasm for great women in history has been a secret pleasure of Sandi Toksvig and illustrator Sandy Nightingale since they first worked together on The Travels of Lady ‘Bulldog’ Burton a few years ago.
The following post was commissioned by Picador as a part of their 40 year anniversary. You will no-doubt know I was their long-standing art director so I cut the introduction. Picador asked me to recount the process of this specific jacket design.
A very sad message landed on Sunday’s doorstep. “The Nobel prizewinning author Gabriel García Márquez is suffering from senile dementia and can no longer write, his brother has revealed.”
Normally, well normal for me, I tend to use this blog to tell you my stories. A glimpses of how I approach the projects I make a thin crust from. Often taking the opportunity to celebrate some of the talented people I have had the good fortune to work with, and for. After all only the most arrogant claim all the credit for themselves.
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At last I have been able to design a website without the miserable prospect of wrestling with Dreamweaver. Since it’s absorbtion into Adobe Creative Suite I had hoped it would work as smoothly as Photoshop. But it doesn’t.
Last summer Joanne Jacobs, introduced me to a new project called Hibrow that was yet to find the right designer.
