Porter is Manchester and Cheshire’s brand new glossy style magazine and online portal. Targeting intelligent, city-dwelling fashion lovers this free bi-monthly publication showcases our best Northern talent using cutting-edge editorial design and photography, blurring the line between national and regional magazines.
I’m very excited to play a part in this publication and will be stepping in as magazine designer in the coming months.
Porter can be picked up free across Manchester city centre and may also be found at locations in Alderly Edge, Altrincham, Bowden, Bramhall, Cheadle, Chealde Hulme, Didsbury, Hale, Poynton, Warrington and branches of Waitrose.
http://www.portermagazine.com/
See pages from the launch issue after the cut.
Filed under: Degree
A designer must exercise practical and technical skill, an aesthetic sensibility and a knowledge of the consumer. Designers must also be skilled in the use of language – they must be able to write clear specifications, discuss ideas coherently and argue their points persuasively. These abilities are often underestimated. Artists need only express themselves on their own terms. They do not need to be technically proficient. A designer must be able to understand the needs of their audience. To do so, they must exercise a degree of detachment towards their work, weighing up the task at hand in a more dispassionate way than that of an artist.
I don’t think I write enough on here. The quote is from an essay I wrote during the first year of my degree. It’s called “Art vs Design” and you can read it in full after the cut.
Filed under: Discoveries
‘For those amongst us who favour entertainment of a more ‘experimental’ nature, the Moon Wiring Club is as infamous and inevitable as cod-liver oil. One might say that no gentleman whose adventurous instincts have not been warmed and purged by what is on offer here, can hope for much future in the English-speaking world.’
Dame Priapus Fripps, 1936
Filed under: Other
I spent ten days in New York this last July, 2009. I was based in Greenwich Village and enjoyed some of the happiest days of my life just walking around Manhattan in the sunshine with my headphones.
I’ve been searching for somewhere to present my work. Carbonmade is basic but effective and suits me right now.
Been very busy with two jobs and some unexciting freelance work. Travelling to New York this July, stay tuned!
