Logo Book Love

I recently finished this brilliant book by identity design guru David Airey.

I’ve followed his blog for quite a while, where he posts interesting and informative articles for budding/experienced designers, with contributions from many others in the industry. Airey also runs a blog solely on Identity design called Logo Design Love and from that comes this great little book. Packed full of advice on identity design, including insights into top designers process’ and advice on the day to day running of been a freelance identity designer, it’s a must have for designers of all levels and especially anyone starting out as a freelance designer.

Get it here.

Amazing Illustrations from Loopy Dave

Here’s some ridiculously good illustration work by a bloke called Loopy Dave.

There’s a great selection of his work over on Abduzeedo, but you can also check out his portfolio here.

Block Printed Cake

Combining two of my favourite things; printmaking and cake.

I must admit that I do have a sweet tooth. When I was a little robot, I was quite partial to an after-school treat and sometimes used to come home, whip up some butter icing to spread onto Rich Tea biscuits and then sneakily eat them all up while snuggled next to the radiator behind the sofa. Once I got a little too confident and attempted to make some flap-jack but it went horrendously wrong and I had to chip it out of the saucepan with a hammer and screwdriver before my Mum could find out! I now know that a little hot water and fairy liquid would have done the trick, but I was only about 10 so give me a break!

Anyway…

This delightful dessert from Ashley Brown is just genius. You can find out more here. It’s probably worth mentioning that if you are tempted to have a crack at one of these print-inspired cakes, then please do remember to use edible food colouring rather than lithographic ink. Although printing ink stuff does look like treacle, it really doesn’t taste quite so good.