On ice
Done as an art college project in printmaking, these are eight silkscreens from a set of 20 variations of the same image, by using the same four screens and interchanging the five...
Childs play
Allegedly, back in 2003, a Laarge & Faamous London agency, responsible at that time for RBS design and advertising, had taken a couple of months and still failed to come up with a suitable logo for...
Capital investment
These ice cream packs were only two of the hundreds of food packs I must have been involved in designing for Capital 'fridge and freezer foods' stores over the 12 years or more that Baillie Marshall were...
… the loo!
Not that I go around photographing toilets, you understand, but on entering these chambers in the bowels of the Dean Gallery in Edinburgh last week, I couldn't help but notice their colourful...
A class of their own
Those were the days – when you could ask your clients to turn up to school, in their white shirts, shorts or school skirts for your promotional video! We had written the script, booked...
Dundee man does dishes!
This was just one of the cheeky sub-titles to accompany the incomprehensable newsvendor's chanting on the mid-1980s television ads for TSB. On winning the TSB Scotland account in 1981...
Ssshhhhhhh! Part 3
Head south from Ericeira or west from Lisbon and you'll find Serra de Sintra, the wooded hills dotted with historic palaces. Here you can drive through a dramatic countryside with hairpin...
Snow pics
Hopefully we've seen the worst of the snow for an other year, but it was good to get the chance to add a few more wintry photos to the collection. These were taken locally, in and around...
Ssshhhhhhh! Part 2
Drive around Estremadura, the region north of Lisbon, and you'll discover numerous, picturesque fortified towns, market towns, fishing villages and religious centres. Below are photographs I...
Lovin’ Lisbon
Waaww! Can't wait to get back. And now that Easyjet are flying direct from Edinburgh instead of via Stansted, we can get there quicker. After eight days at Ericeira on October 2007 (see...