Here we go - something totally different to what I've done before. I was commissioned to create a logo for a car enthusiast group that could be printed as a sticker for their car windows.  I was given a basic idea to start with but mostly free reign on this project, resulting in a final piece which was actually completely different to the original sketch supplied by my client (see sketches below). The only specifications I had were to include the name and the dice.

As you can tell by these design ideas, I had suggested the use of an American style license plate as the basic template, which was met with a very enthusiastic response. If you have ever seen American plates, you'll know a lot of them are rather extravagant and heavily reliant on imagery to capture the essence of its state, hence why I included the mountains of our Lake District. I didn't want the imagery to be too realistic so I focused on silhouette styles instead, and eventually came up with this as my final piece. This was fun to make but completely out of my comfort zone and I'd be lying if I said it was an easy process for me. Nonetheless, the client loved it so I must have done a decent job.

After the successful funding of my Kickstarter project, I managed to get my book professionally printed on a mass scale.

Shortly after shipping out the orders, I began getting some really lovely responses.

Not long ago, I managed to complete my book and handmake a hardback version of it with a screenprinting cover. A friend who knows her photography took some brilliant photos of it, along with my "Paint Your Own Krampus" and Aufhocker T-shirt. A full run-through of the project can be found here: Anthology of Mythology

As this is such a long project, I don't have much to show to the world just yet. I still have the rest of an entire book to make. However, here's what I've managed to do so far. There'll be much more to come!

This project is a bit of a rollercoaster but I'm going to try narrow it down as much as possible. So, the brief was to choose a location in which one of the hotels of Hotel Indigo was situated. I chose Kansas City; a strangely charming place with wacky museums and a sleazy underbelly.

My original plan was to create a series of mirrors which you would not notice the design of until you looked closer. These designs were for: the Puppetry Arts Institute, Glore Psychiatric Museum, Leila's Hair Museum. I did actually make these and engraved the designs on using a laser cutter (these are just mock-ups), but the idea didn't go down as well as I'd hoped so I began to really invest into my other idea.

This looks like a massive jump but hear me out. Due to KC's sleazy side, a suggestion was made to me to incorporate "tart cards" into my idea. I decided to make a little character (or part of a character) for each museum and make it as vile and disgusting as possible. To get the cheaply made effect, I added texture digitally and then printed each element off so I could messily cut them up and stick them on another piece of paper together. I then added horrible stains (made with a hot glue gun) and hairs. The final pieces were printed on a Riso printer onto coloured card so they'd be extra tacky and unpleasant to look at. I am actually quite proud of how these tuned out.

I finally settled on this. I didn't want to take this task too seriously as I just wanted to mess around with the composition of it and have a joke about my bullet points. The obvious choices would have been: "I am always on time", "I can work in a team", etc. But that's boring and should be expected of everyone anyway.

I was having a struggle trying to think about what exactly to put on the sheet, and how to lay it out. It seemed a bit daft to make something really elaborate so I focused on making some really simple decoration of my preference just to kind of jazz it up a bit.

So, we've been instructed to create an A4 sheet of our traits. This ranges from unique aspects so genuine skills. I've only just had a think about this tonight but decided to get a page of scruffy notes put down so I at least have content before thinking about how I'll interestingly lay it out. Pink is general stuff about me personally, green is career-relevant stuff.

​This is my first step of documenting the process. Join me on what will hopefully be a semi interesting quest.