The Bill Quay Community Farm Job
Graphic Design you Trust, From people who Care
When David from Lighting the Landscape introduced Design Aid to Bill Quay Farm I could not believe that without some serious support they could be closing.
I set to work assessing what would be needed to get the Farm noticed and promote the Bill Quay Community Farm with vital and immediate short term results supporting the campaign and petition. I also looked to use solutions that would keep peoples interest and continue to raise awareness for the project in the longer term.
I could see we needed to get a mass of people and media personalities behind the project and raise awareness of the Farm and this new threat that it faced.
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Motorcycle Racing Poster for 2012 season
Our first job of the year is often to design a new season poster to help promote the local motorbike club’s, motorcycle racing meetings.
The North East Motorcycle Racing Club (NEMCRC) a Non Profit company and members club that has brought top class club racing to the North East for 50 years. So here it is the very first Poster design of 2012 from the Design Aid project.
These posters are used extensively by volunteers, supporters, members and riders. A short print run of A3 posters are put up in local motorcycle dealers and biker cafes etc. by volunteers while others print out a poster or two on their own inkjet printers at home to put up on notice boards at work etc. And of course, many supporters and kind individuals will re-post, tweet, like, share, email or post on forums and blogs this and other digital versions of the poster.
Please do get in touch if your project or organisation would benefit from a professionally designed poster or flyer to promote it’s events or cause. We would love to Design, help or advise in a professional capacity to support your Good Cause.
Click on the image to see full size A4 poster design.
If you are local or in the Scottish borders please do download and distribute the poster on local notice boards, shops, motorcycle dealers or just across your online forums and social networks. These really are top class club race meetings, put on by a dedicated group of volunteers and they will appreciate any additional support that helps to promote and back these spectacular motorcycle race meetings.
More details about the NEMCRC can be found on their website at www.nemcrc.co.uk (also designed and hosted by Design Aid) and you can follow them on Twitter or like them on FaceBook.
Highland Wildlife Park Guidebook
I found one of my old Sketch books from 1995 today
In it was it this simple little illustration of a Capercaillie and it got me thinking of my very first charity sector job.
A guidebook for the Highland Wildlife Park, (HWP)
This little sketch, among other things, ended up in a guidebook I created for them and though it is not much to look at by today’s standards, it won an award for the best holiday attraction guidebook in Scotland.
It all started with a holiday visit to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) HWP where I was handed a very shoddy “100th” generation photocopy for a guidebook. While I did think that perhaps as a registered charity they might have better things to spend money on than my guidebook I had just handed over a not unsubstantial amount of money to visit the park and expected a little more for my money.
I decided that, instead of complaining, it might be better to try and help out. Continue reading
