design

IUCN Signs Gentleshaw

Gentleshaw Signs

Briefly going back to my ‘old’ job – I was asked to create some signage for gentleshaw wildlife centre for the IUCN red list species that live there. Printed on aluminium panels the first few have gone up, looks like Siren the cockatoo approves!

design, sketchblog

Falconers Wedding

Wedding invites I was asked to create for a falconer friend. Several sketches and ideas were suggested before finally arriving at a lovely image of a pair of peregrines ‘kissing’ (in reality feeding each other).

The cards were then held together using a leather falconry jess and eyelet (for the non-falconer – these are used on a hawk’s legs), completing the theme as many of their invited friends were also falconers.

The invitations were sent out but sadly due to Covid the wedding has now been postponed, which is a shame as these cards have been one of my favourite designs I have done. A new date card will be issued in due course and I wish the couple well for the future.

design, graphite, sketchblog

Dog Chart

It’s not all about the birds! A client at my day job wanted some custom illustrations for a dog feeding chart that matched with their current branding, which uses vintage pen illustrations. My hand-drawn images are on the left, which my colleague then included in the leaflet design on the right.