Ian Prentice and Tim Wan I think have truly captured christmas in the studio with a pack of festive postcards they have printed, designed by several of us in the studio and organised and screen printed by Tim and Ian. They look lovely and will be available for purchase this sunday and the Brudenell craft fair. Look, Mines there!

How do you create something original?

Easy, the 3 approaches to thinking; systematic, stimulated and intuitive. My design for the latest Don't Panic theme, 'Original' uses the ideas on thinking in Werner Gaede's book Vom Wort Zum Bild. Just something I knocked up on a saturday afternoon, I think i'll go for a curry now.

Final design above and how I got there below.

Having had a fantastic summer its time now to get back into the game. I thought as a starter to help I would enter a couple of easy and fun competitions to ease myself back into the working life. Umbro's new boot the Speciali was looking for a new sole to be designed in an open competition which allowed me to use my new Creative Suite 4 software for more than just fixing up pictures, it was awesome to play with. After i also entered another open competition to design a t-shirt for an Xbox promotion. I have had a quite a reflective summer, looking back on some of the work that I produced last year I have come so far yet there are still things that i need to improve on. Having been away on holidays and in my own space I am looking forward to getting back next week.