I couldn’t have been more delighted when I got the chance to develop a new brochure for Fisherman’s Friend. It also gave me a chance to work with Tony Williams who was working for Cartmell PR at the time. Tony re-formed Stealers Wheel in Blackpool in 2008 with two other original band members, Rod Coombes… Read more »
The Blackpool Metro buses kept us quite busy. My company did several posters for them, some of which are shown below. The poster with the clever young lad utilises the ‘Every X Minutes’ theme I came up for their bus graphics. The ‘Colour Coded’ was inspired by the client’s desire to emulate the iconic, award-winning… Read more »
About thirty years ago, Tony DePledge, the Managing Director from Blackpool Transport at the time, asked me to do some ‘Stay Off the Tram Tracks’ posters. He liked our work enough to introduce me to Liz Eznouf, his Marketing Director, which led to our next exciting job – designing a new logo for Blackpool’s buses. The… Read more »
My son asked me to design a logo and a holding page for his new deejaying business. Naturally, I was delighted and created them both. Like the screenshot says below, the actual website will be coming soon. I’m looking forward to when he has enough content for a full website. The name for his company… Read more »
Tom Brown, Managing Director of La-Z-Boy UK about thirty years ago, gave me a fantastic opportunity. My company had been providing him with printed marketing materials for several years when he asked me to produce the first UK La-Z-Boy TV commercial. My idea was to have a furniture store owner working late and showing her… Read more »
Growing up in a suburb outside of Rochester, New York, had its advantages. It was home to Eastman Kodak (later referred to as Kodak), and Xerox (famous for its photocopiers). As a local student, we often went on school trips to both companies. Kodak was working with NASA scientists at the time, on photographic solutions… Read more »
While rummaging through some old brochures, I came across one I put together for the director of three films I worked on, Ulli Lommel. Here’s a short excerpt from Wikipedia: ‘Lommel spent time at The Factory and was a creative associate of Andy Warhol, with whom he made several films and works of art. He moved to the United States in… Read more »
I was working as a location sound recordist on my third feature film called Brainwaves. Because I had the nicest car of anyone in the crew, I was also given the job of picking up Kier Dullea in the mornings from Gregory Peck’s old house, where he was staying at the time. A lot of… Read more »
My Father built a farm tractor and wired a barn for electricity when he was just 10 years old in Greigsville, New York. As it happened, my grandfather told me this when I was 10, so I was obviously impressed, which meant I had a lot of catching up to do. After getting his Notre… Read more »