Christmas wrapping detail

Some of my present wrapping for this year. My extraordinary detail was using pinking shears to cut the tape. This trend is going to be HUGE in 2014 #allinthedetail #nextlevel #tape

I ate all the Chocolates! Happy Christmas 2013

Happy Christmas 2013

Set. Done!

2013 my home and studio became a photo set. Last shoot today. Can’t wait to see the result! #extraordinary

Photographic efficiency. All about the Storyboard

So Mark Vessey the photographer was at my studio again today. We had to reshoot some parts of the book I figured we could do better. Also we had a few pick up shots to do. This is the term used when an important shot containing information is missed out for whatever reason. The last shot we struggled a bit with lighting to match what we had done several months earlier. The thing however that made our lives much less stressful was a fairly meticulous storyboard I had prepared the day before. I remember being told to do storyboards at university but I really appreciate now just how much of a great tool they are to ensure smooth running of photography.

This is Graphic Design

I think if I had designed this cover I might possibly think I would never need to ever design any piece of communication art ever again. Does Graphics get better than this? I’m just going to put this out there as a question. What if this piece of design is a better creation than the novel itself? I had a meeting with a TV company, my agent and my publisher Penguin Random House yesterday and we were in Foyles looking at cover design. I bought this book, which I read in 1984 and I probably won’t read again, (hate reading) it’s going in a frame as an artwork. Hey that’s also one of the chapters in my book.