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…
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…
The 100 day Project - Day 10 update
10 days ago I was sent a link to the 100 Day Project’s landing page and was immediately drawn in (no pun intended.) The only problem was that I couldn’t decide if to do…
How to stay inspired?
There are some weeks where I feel a sense of artistic inspiration from morning until night and I find the ability to create a lot of illustrations and think of a bunch of cool ideas with seamless ease. Other weeks however, it is a bit of a struggle to find the energy to pull out a blank canvas or to create a new file in illustrator. If this happens to you as well, I've put together a few things I find helpful to do when I'm stuck in a rut that help me find the creative energy…
Joseph Kosuth and the Idea of Art
“The 'value' of particular artists after Duchamp can be weighed according to how much they questioned the nature of art.”― Joseph Kosuth, Art After Philosophy and After: Collected Writings, 1966-1990
Joseph Kosuth is an American Conceptual artist whose work...
Photographing the Mundane
Artists see the world through different eyes to most people; they see the beauty in things that may be considered boring or mundane, and there are no photographers who capture this beauty as well as William Eggleston. Eggleston is a pioneering photographer and is credited with…
Fete Signs of Trinidad
As a graphic designer who studied abroad, I always think about what kind of design or aesthetic is intrinsically Trinbagonian; what colours do we use, what sorts of typography is used, what sort of trends are seen in our design? Now that I am back living and working at home…