Billboards across LA in the 1970’s and 1980's, especially those on Sunset Boulevard were bold, brash icons in the sky - The Strip skyline an ever changing gallery (apart from the Marlboro Man, a 70 foot cowboy puffing ...
Billboards
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Art and graphic design are great sources of nourishment in my life, food completes the trinity and my larder is a dedicated shrine to this pleasure.
Having a traditional walk-in larder I have come to realise its huge ...
MyLarder
Musings
Typography and and use of fonts in graphic design, packaging and art has always interested me.
A great online source for original and unusual fonts is HMF (HandMadeFont), an Estonian design company founded by two ...
Handmade Fonts
Musings
Book Cover Designs
Arachne Press publishers of fiction, poetry and non-fiction had an open competition last year for two book covers, for two titles: Lovers' Lies and Mosaic of Air. I submitted three designs for each ...
Ed Ruscha’s paintings incorporate words, slogans, and phrases that are both enigmatic and surrealistic. They allude to popular culture in the States and especially life in Los Angeles. Works like: ‘Sand in the ...
Words, Type, Image, Art: Ed Ruscha
Musings