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Work In Progress

My last blog post was in 2022. That’s three years ago, and honestly, it’s wild considering how much I love writing. But today, I plan to change that. Right now I am in the middle of a year of “creating” which means…

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2022 Wrap Up

2022 was an amazing year.

Apart from getting married, I got to work on some really great projects. The Google Doodle was the icing on the cake of course, but I’ve also included some other accomplishments this year…

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Google Doodle - Steel Pan

About two years ago I received a message on Instagram from an Art Director at Google requesting my email address. The following day I received an email with an NDA and then the brief for the project…

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Head of House NFT Process

Last year, I was introduced to NFTs through a couple friends and decided to jump right in. A popular trend in NFTs is the Profile Picture NFT aka PFP…

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McDonald's Illustrations : The Process

What do you do when you’re on holiday and McDonald’s asks you to work on 3 illustrations for them to celebrate their 10th anniversary in Trinidad & Tobago?


You say yes and thank your lucky stars that you cleared your week in advance.

The brief for the job was simple…

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Creating a Portfolio to Get Hired

A designer’s portfolio is basically the “proof in the pudding” that both clients and agencies look at before deciding if to hire you or not. You can have a good resumé or a degree from a top art school, but if your portfolio falls flat you will most likely miss out on a lot of jobs. It is the visual representation of what you have done and achieved in your design career.

I get a lot of questions from designers looking for…

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PAZ coffee: The Design Process

In 2019 PAZ Coffee & Kitchen launched in Trinidad & Tobago with their first product - Cold Brew Coffee. PAZ was founded by three sisters who shared a passion for good coffee and wanted to enter the burgeoning craft coffee scene in Trinidad. They had originally approached my design company, Backyard Design, to create their branding back in 2017 when the ideas was still in its infancy. It wasn’t until a year later in 2018 that they approached BD to put the branding to use and to design the packaging for their line of Cold Brew coffees. This would be their first product to market so it was important that the communication and launch was spot on…

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Mural Painting with Sissons Paint

I was recently commissioned by Sissons Paint to design and paint a 22.5 x 10 foot wall at their flagship shop in Trinidad. Murals always pose a challenge, and this was no different, so I want to share some behind the scene as to what exactly goes into creating something like this…

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4 Years of being self-employed

I recently came across a blog post I wrote about my first week as Freelancer and it blew my mind seeing that it had been almost 4 years to the day! So much has happened in these 4 years and it’s good every now and then to reflect on these things…

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Personal Branding for Designers

I recently spoke to a University of the West Indies (UWI) design class and the topic of personal branding came up in the Q&A. One of the students was working on their personal branding and wanted to know my thoughts on logos for designers. I think a lot of young designers place a lot of emphasis on what their logo looks like but when agencies are looking at portfolios, the most important thing is…

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Back Home

After 8 long months in the UK we are finally back home! The closure of the Trinidad & Tobago borders meant that our 2 week trip turned into 8 months of lockdown trying…

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5 Accounts to Follow (September Edition)

Here is the second edition of “5 accounts to follow,” if you haven’t seen the first installment make sure to check it out. Let’s get right into it, these are 5 accounts that I think are worth following!

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How I Created the Kes "We Home" Cover

Kes’ new live-album just came out, and I’ve been getting a lot of questions recently about the process of creating this album art. Here, I will outline what was done from the start of this project through to completion.

To give some history to how this project even came to life, it all started in February of this year. A couple weeks before Carnival I posted an illustration of Kes on to Instagram. From there, I got a DM from Kes saying…

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Buju Banton Stage Graphics

A year ago Buju Banton performed for the first time after a 10 year incarceration with a huge concert in Kingston, Jamaica for the start of his Long Walk to Freedom Tour. I was contacted by North Eleven who were tasked with creating the concert visuals…

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