To you and me it’s just a banana, an egg, a cup of tea, some spilt milk. To them, its their home, work, school, where they let their children play. Imagine if everyday was a struggle to survive, because of our ignorance and stupidity for these forgotten people it is.
A dish cloth used to soak up a liquid mess can suffocate a family on holidays. A cup of tea drank in haste can drown an unsuspecting swimmer, icing devoured greedily can rob parents of a child enjoying his first taste of snow. It’s carelessness, cruelty and down right ignorance that’s wiping this little known race from our planet and what are we doing about it…Nothing!
Look down people, you are squashing a world at your feet!
Just a quick note to say my Kilkenny postcards are now available in Rothe House. I put them in to test the waters and they are selling really well, will be adding more to the range soon.
Banner I just finished for a client (lighting company), it’s a mesh and mix of a load of lights and then played with the outlines and the negative space. Like the abstract look.
I haven’t much time at the moment to blog but while watching telly last night a friend of mine said “why don’t you write about something different, like food”. So I whisked up a few of these this morning.
So for breakfast I had…
Then I was feeling a bit peckish, grabbed a watermelon and before eating it, did a little sculpting…
For dinner I’m going to have this, prepared it last night, it’s my tribute to spring…
While whipping up my dinner last night, I thought I’d also have a stab at my tea, never had frogs legs before, found this little fella in the garden, you might think that’s cruel but i rescued him from the snow…
The good thing about making this stuff is, although it’s a lot of food to eat in one day, it takes a lot of energy to make them so in theory it’s a diet!!!
I’ll get back to blogging about design soon, unless anyone has any other suggestions.
Prudence magazine wrote an article on Held Design in this months (March) recessionistas section. I have uploaded the spread and article above but if your in the shops grab this issue, it’s a good read (not just cause i’m in it!)
Held Design got a nice write up on the Sunday Business Post yesterday, I have pasted the article in below…
Striking out alone provides impetus for success 28 February 2010 By Jenny Hauser
Graphic designer Helena Duggan used to work for a company which catered mostly for corporate clients, and felt her creativity was being stunted.
When she was let go as a result of the economic downturn, it gave her the impetus she needed to follow her dreams and set up her own graphic design company.
‘‘I was let go the Christmas before last because of the recession. I always said I would set up my own business and this way I was pushed to do it,” said Duggan.
Now it is just ‘‘myself and my computer – we’re great friends’’, according to Duggan.
She said that graphic design was a hard profession to follow when working for someone else. ‘‘When I went out on my own, I actually did better than when I was working for a company,” she said. ‘‘I was able to go out and find work that I wanted to do.
‘‘When you own a company, it seems like people listen to you more and go with your ideas more.”
Duggan completed her degree in graphic design at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology in 2004.
After two years in the world of employment, she packed her bags and went travelling for two years.
However, her creativity was not put on the back-burner during that time. In Melbourne, she enrolled on a creative writing course.
She is only 28 years old and always on the move, at least creatively.
Her latest successful project was a line of illustrated postcards and posters for Kilkenny.
The cards flew out of the door and Duggan is now looking to expand to other counties.
Other projects included designing brochures, t-shirts and flyers for a charity event, Aids Partnership in Africa, as well as designs for the Kells Comedy Festival, a knitting shop and a hair salon.
Held Design celebrated its first anniversary last month, and it has had a busy year. But despite this, Duggan also has her sights firmly set on publishing her own children’s book, which she wrote while travelling in Australia.
What started with a notebook given to her by her sister, ended up as 400 pages about the perils of a shoe called Seamus who finds himself on a rubbish-dump.
Currently, the book (A Load of Rubbish) is on Authonomy, a community site for writers, ranked in ninth place of around 8,000 books by aspiring authors. Each month, the Harper Collins editorial board reviews the top five books and publication is then within reach.
The ambitious designer has her sights set on being in the chosen five, and already has chosen the illustrations for the book on her desk.
Hello All, thought you might like these. I was looking at TV last night after a match which I almost broke my finger in (but that’s another story altogether). Anyway yes, so there I was, snug on the couch watching “Run Fat Boy Run” and laughing out loud (it was very funny, I rarely laugh when something is not funny) and what should pop up during the break only an advert for the new Alice in Wonderland film. I jumped out my seat, hitting my finger off the table (the almost broken finger but again that’s another story altogether) and ran to the telly (bad eyesight).
It’s by Tim Burton and although I’m not as well up on directors as I should be, he is by far and away (he didn’t direct that) by favourite. I love his style, his sets are so dark and quirky and absolutely brilliant. He favours Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp in most of his work and they’re great, both mad actors. Anyway so Lewis Carroll and Tim Burton what a combination, went straight online today and pulled up these visuals (brilliant).
Anyway, I’m sure you can guess by now, can’t wait for the film. Enjoy the pics. Helena
PS a lot of blood, sweat and tears has gone into these few paragraphs. It not easy to type with a broken finger and a dead athletes foot!
WTWO Design has been an ongoing project for the last number of months and today the business cards landed on my desk. Delighted with them so I have decided to blog on the process.
WTWO is a lighting design consultancy so obviously first things first I began to research light and lighting. I played around with the colours involved in light, with the spectrum and finally with colour changing. I developed a logo the client was happy with as a base and then I began my experiments with light. I made a stencil of the logo, hung it up and messed around with light and shadow. Got some really interesting images out of it using RGB colour changing and this became the base idea.
I took my images above and began to try and graphically illustrate them and the results are below. My only problem was trying to print authentic RGB in a printers as they use CMYK colours, not sure if got around that fully but they still look good!
Here are some Illustrations I found recently by Beata Boucht an illustrator based in Stockholm. She has also recently done a children’s line for H&M. Have a look at her site, I love her style.
