Category Archives: design

Saturday January 28, 2012

Akai Premium Theme from Crimson Pear

I’m so excited to share with you what I’ve been toiling away at for the last couple of weeks. This is my Akai (means red in Japanese) self-hosted WordPress blog theme that you can purchase over on my Crimson Pear site. This was such fun to create. I had the Indian inspired block prints and [...]

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Tuesday January 3, 2012

Free WordPress Theme from Crimson Pear

I have been working on this for a while and I’m so happy to show you my first free WordPress theme, called Kiiroi, which means yellow in Japanese. This has been an ambition of mine for a while now to combine my love of blogging and my love of web design. Last year, after getting [...]

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Saturday December 10, 2011

It’s beginning to feel like Christmas fonts

I’m relatively new to the world of picture fonts, but what a world it is. I know I’ve mentioned a couple of them before but I’ve really just started using them in earnest and I’m about to publish my first free theme that makes use of elements from my current favourite picture font… but more [...]

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Sunday November 6, 2011

What would you pay for these?

I subscribe to Chris Spooner’s Blog Spoon Graphics newsletter. His site is a goldmine for people like me and he really piqued my interest with a post titled Top 20 High Quality Free Fonts Every Designer Should Own. Just the words free and font were enough for me to go and find out what I’ve [...]

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Friday March 18, 2011

Dan Funderburgh for Brooks Saddles

I really love collaborations of the quirky variety. Dan Funderburgh is a Brooklyn based illustrator, artist and wallpaper designer. His work is for purchase and he also works on commissions. A recent collaboration saw his beautiful work in leather through the creation of the Team Pro Alpe D’Huez Brooks saddle. These saddles are hand crafted [...]

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Saturday March 12, 2011

Scribbling :: autumn leaves

I’ve been scribbling again with Adobe Ideas for iPad. It’s quite addictive once you get started. I created a palette of 5 colours from the bench in autumn photo – can you believe it? These are exactly the colours it picked. So I started with the top one and they were very strange looking leaves [...]

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Thursday March 3, 2011

A wood scribble

Here’s my latest Adobe Ideas scribble. I had the idea in my head that it would look perfect with a single colour (top) but once I got going it didn’t exactly turn out as I imagined – well does it ever? It’s also quite hard to draw with your finger no matter how thin the [...]

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Saturday February 19, 2011

Mariners stars (and not the baseball team)

So here’s what I find myself doing when I can’t get to sleep! I’m still stuck on stars this week and I’m fond of the mariner’s star (compass) especially in quilts. This is my latest Adobe Ideas scribble and although I’m not sure about the colour scheme I think the star has potential. I’ll see [...]

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Saturday January 15, 2011

Seeing blues :: design scribbles

I took my desktop wallpaper image and ran it though Adobe Ideas to produce this swatch. The red, by the way, is part of the logo but I kept it in there. I do like the combination with the red, it brings to mind Ralph Lauren ads – I’m not sure why that is. Since [...]

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Wednesday January 5, 2011

Creating my own kind of vintage :: first take

I took this image from a fabric for sale at Retro Age Vintage Fabrics and saved it to my iPad. One of my favourite tools on the iPad is Adobe Ideas – it’s incredibly fun to draw with (whilst standing in the kitchen waiting for lentils to cook) and better still it’s free. I love [...]

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