The Year of the Dragon
23rd of January 2012 – 9th February 2013 is the Year of the Dragon. If you are a Dragon this is going to be a great year for you, so get out there and raise some hell! For all the rest of us, expect some pretty spectacular barbecues. Happy New Year of the Dragon.
A 3 Sock Christmas
May your Christmas stockings be full to overflowing – Lots of chocolate, at least one satsuma and absolutely no coal!
Cheffy logo
Here is a logo I did for Little Chef Big Chef web site. An online store for kids cookery.
Sadly it has nothing at all to do with the slightly faded motorway eatery. Sadly?, well Little Chef commissioned Michelin starred Big Chef Heston Blumenthal to revamp their image and menu. Which he did – despite them. You can see the results in the documentary Big Chef takes on little chef on 4OD.
We almost ate in the pilot restaurant but missed the turning. That wasn’t very clever was it?
No Chef!
Sugary Nonsense
Call me old-fashioned, but I rather like the look of those love heart sweets. But, as I’m not usually known for serving up sugary nonsense, here’s some confectionery of another kind – a ‘virtually’ calorie-free alternative to the tooth-rotting, sugar-burning, nutritionally deficient variety. Go on! … you know you want to!
You can send Sugary Nonsense e-cards from www.squeakycards.com
Dandelion Card
Taraxacum officinal – I love plant taxonomy, me!
Other things I have learnt about the dandelion: 1. the name comes from ‘dent-de-lion’, meaning ‘lion’s tooth’, which refers to the shape of its leaves 2. it makes you wee more 3. it reproduces asexually and scatters its seeds willy-nilly … what a tart!
You can send this as an e-card from www.squeakycards.com
Royal Marsden/ICR
Material for this year’s Royal Marsden/Institute of Cancer Research symposium. It’s on Molecular Diagnostics and Personalised Medicine … in case you were wondering!
Man Card
Just in time for Fathers’ Day, and for all those men who like sport, here’s the perfect card distilled to its essence … apparently! www.squeakycards.com
New Year, New Bunny
For those of you who didn’t receive one (my apologies, let me know and I’ll add you to the list for any future surprises!), here is the card from our Chinese New Year mailout. It’s a bit of a digital homage to the mailer which got me my first job in design … which was a surprise to me, as I was an illustrator at the time! Back then, it was ‘proper’ collage done with real paper and glue and stuff, and it was the year of the monkey.
‘Write the theme tune, sing the theme tune!’
So here it is at last, the new website! It’s been sitting on the back burner so long that frankly I’m surprised it hasn’t boiled dry and burnt the pan to a sticky and carbonated crust. This is partly due to it constantly being squeezed to the bottom of the list, and partly due to us wanting to design and build it, create the illustration, take the photos, (‘write the theme tune, sing the theme tune’) ourselves … not that we’re controlling or anything.
So, please do make yourself at home, have a good browse around and I hope you enjoy what you see. I’m off to make a cup of tea!
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