Truly Ace Graphic Design Blog

Words of the Wise

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:42:02 +0000

On naivety; you may not be armed with foresight, but at least in your ignorance you enjoyed the ride.

Animation in Music Videos

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Sat, 26 May 2012 16:02:41 +0000

Recently, especially since she released her outstanding new album in 2011 featuring the much lauded track ‘Wild Man‘ I’ve developed a renewed appreciation of Kate Bush and have been listening to her older songs also. Not that I didn’t appreciate her before, but in my teen years (yep I’m THAT old) I listened to what [...]

Concertina Business Cards

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:36:35 +0000

On Saturday I popped into the fairly newly opened branch of Wysteria Lane in Birmingham, which is a beautiful shop filled with gorgeous products and extremely imaginative display areas. Image courtesy of ‘Style Birmingham’ While there I picked up one of their flyers at the till so that I could online shop with them at [...]

Beauty Salon Reception Branding

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:54:43 +0000

Bristol based Escape Health & Beauty salon sent us these photos of their new reception area, which is just beautiful. A month or so ago they asked us to design a wall canvas for them to be used at the reception in replacement of an old wall canvas design we had created for them in [...]

Sex Crazed Libertine

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Sun, 06 May 2012 09:26:31 +0000

I just found a poem I wrote some time ago. It is crudely scrawled across a hastily folded page, shoved into my book of other poems, with lots of crossing out all over it, but on re-reading it now nearly two years later I have decided I love it. ————————– Sex crazed libertine, your personal [...]

The Value of Great Clients

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:06:43 +0000

At the end of a terrible terrible day, this lovely thank you note and gift from Suhaav Event & Food Styling moved me to tears. Lucky me having such a wonderful client.

Domo Arigato, Mr Roboto

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:11:01 +0000

I’ve entered an origami box making phase (or perhaps craze). I made this cute bananaman comic strip lidded box for my son the other day, using one of the pages of The Dandy comic which I think came out beautifully. Then today it occured to me that you can also make them out of your [...]

Art4Action – Supporting A Charitable Event

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Wed, 02 May 2012 10:22:52 +0000

I recently carried out some design work in support of the ‘Art4Action’ World Malaria Day events held at the Mac, Birmingham between the 23rd and 28th April. The events included an Art Competition by Faiths Act Birmingham to raise awareness and funds to end the deadly killer Malaria. It’s lovely to now see photos of [...]

Paper Couture – Jennifer Collier

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:21:32 +0000

I’ve become intrigued by paper crafts lately (origami and such like) and hence recently came across the work of Jennifer Collier, who creates things from paper. I make it sound boring, it’s not, and it’s way beyond ‘origami’ You can view some of her work below and shop for items in her online shop at [...]

Discovering Delilah

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:34:56 +0000

I discovered Delilah this week, and I’m really impressed by her. Here are two extremely different versions of my favourite track of hers ‘Breath’. Both excellent.