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Designing and publishing a hospital radio magazine

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, cafe interior

I have been asked to help publish a magazine by a hospital radio station. Anyone who has had any sort of stay in a hospital will tell you that hospital radio with it’s music, news and entertainment is a welcome diversion at a difficult time. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital One of the bigger hospitals in [...]

Doing eye-catching designs in Illustrator

I’m always on the look out for simple eye-catching ways to communicate a message. I think this is a great example of a visually appealing background that could be used when there are no images, graphics or other ways to improve the typography. This is especially useful in direct marketing (email or mail shot). How [...]

Two tips for design inspiration

Keep it simple Steal Keep your designs simple OK! This is easier said than done but this is paramount. If you want to live a happy life, keep it as simple as possible. If you want to do a good design… you get the picture! Take this photograph of 60s fashion model Twiggy by Barry [...]

Pop art effect turns photos into icons

I used a slightly different technique for the above picture of David Beckham than my earlier pop art example. This time I put the Threshold layer (Image > Adjustments > Threshold) on the top and set it’s Layer Style to Multiply. Some of the underlying image was coloured in, some was Posterized (Image > Adjustments [...]