A design a day - March 31st

March 31st.
Well it's the last day and this is a bit of a mad one! However, please look though the previous 30 days and email/text/facebook me your top five designs - as postcard packs may be in print!
Thanks for your viewing and support over the last 31 days :-)

A design a day - 30th March

Feeling equine today :-)

A design a day - 29th March

29th March.
A sketch of a phoenix.

A design a day - 28th March

28th March.
More prototyping today :-)

A design a day - 27th March

27th March.
A sketch loosely based on an 18th century masonic apron.

A design a day - day 26.

Day 26.
Visiting parents so have uploaded one of dad's paintings today :-)

A design a day - March 25th

March 25th.
Feels slightly eastern.

A design a day - 24th March

24th March.
This one's for Maya :-)

A design a day - March 23rd

March 23rd.
Spring things.

A design a day - March 22nd

March 22nd.
Well, have been on a school trip today - so am handing the reins over to the very capable work of 'team lingo', alias Aisha, Hannah, Ruby, Hari and Ellis...

A design a day - March 21st

March 21st

Just been doing a bit of prototyping today.

A design a day - March 20th

March 20th
Quick sketch of a Flamenco Dancer - am still on the Spanish thought but not sure how/why yet!

A design a day - March 19th

March 19th
We had some fortune cookies today :-).

A design a day - March 18th

March 18th.
Thinking about chandeliers here - so a sketch - lots of thoughts on the individual combinations of shapes re. jewellery...have a lovely weekend everyone.

A design a day - March 17th

March 17th.
Ok, a confession... I had my hair done today - so my kind son has stepped in and donated something he drew last night - hope I can be forgiven ;-)

A design a day - 16th March

Here is a little montage of my early years - vivid little memories. Thanks to mum and dad for the originals - all converted from slides :-)

A design a day - 15th march

15th March.
To those of us with pets. Claire - sorry it wasn't a guinea pig x

A design a day - March 14th

March 14th.
A seed of an idea - would need more but here it is :-)

A design a day - 13th March

13th March.
Just some little birdhouses - not all that happy with the palette but it's Sunday and the family beckons :-)

A design a day - 12th March

12th March.
Playing with the idea of organic forms making patterns - just hand-drawn so not accurate but I quite like the idea.

A design a day - March 11th

March 11th.
I treated myself to some sequins today... just been playing around with them. Nothing revolutionary but a little touch of spring that I may go back to. Thanks to the drinking straws for their support.

A design a day - March 10th

March 10th
Don't ask me why today, as I don't know! But I do know I'm not keen on bullfighting (dramatic and colourful though it is).

A design a day - March 9th

Here are some very first thoughts for Ms AJ :-)I will leave the interpretation to you...

A design a day - March 8th

March 8th.
Oooh a busy day. So here is a quick tribute to the little mouse that went to heaven today thanks to our kitten :-(

A design a day - 7th March

7th March.
Not so much a design as some ideas and thoughts. Playing with the idea of things that are framed - furniture/shop windows and the possibility of taking this forward. Also the thought of partial embellishment on something monochrome... just some sketches here...

A designa day - Day 6

6th March.
I have three little wooden houses at home that i really like - so have used them as the basis for this design. :-)

A design a day - March 5th

March 5th.
As it's the weekend I thougyht I'd just play with a few of the photos from 3rd March - so here are two patterns based on those.

A design a day - 4th March

4th March.
Not happy with this one but hey ho.. just a door. Serves me right for spending too long in Nero.
Computer illustration.
It's Friday.

A design a day - March 3rd

Actually I can't really call this 'design' - more sketching - with plastic. These are more little tokens from my dad's travels - vintage seventies cocktail stirrers - from all the hotels he visited - and all the drinks he had! The plastic hearts are another trinket from another trip. Just playing with these as starting points for ideas...

A design a day - 2nd March

2nd March.
Thinking about polypropylene.
A simple one today - but I have been thinking about the properties of semi-transparent polypropylene - you get a nice layering effect and it works better in simple colours. Computer based illustration.
:-)

A design a day - Day 1 - March 1st!

March 1st.
Well you have to start somewhere, and here's where I started. Two roosters :-) I am thinking about little European souvenrs at the moment - my dad used to bring them back from his travels. I can't find my original Portuguese rooster, so I have made some new ones. Cut paper.