I spend much of each workday at my design table, dreaming up creative concepts for future projects. Since our job is to discover original ideas, things can get pretty silly at times. My favourite thing is to work alongside Peter, for two heads are always much better than one. As fast as ideas pop into our heads, I begin drawing quick rough sketches and something fun comes out. These rapid scribbles often inspire more ideas. A silly idea that doesn’t work out will frequently inspire something far better. The biggest frustration of a design day is simply running out of time before we are done. In that case, I will scribble out the leftover ideas on a scrap of paper and leave it on the desk to provide the creative spark for tomorrow.
Deep six'd
Our friends at Vala’s Pumpkin Patch requested a small marker for hole 6. The golf course has a pirate theme, and our client suggested a graveyard scene. The hole needs a numeral 6 to identify it, and adding the word DEEP to the top made perfect sense. A skull-and-crossbones relief on the top finished things off nicely. Now we have to build it. Stay tuned…
New focus
It has been a wild two weeks, as I travelled first to Tulley’s Farm in England, then back home for a day, then off to Disneyland in California for a week. We returned on Saturday, but it’s taken me a few days to get my feet under me again and my sense of time back to normal. I’ve spent the bulk of my time back at my drawing board, catching up with various ongoing projects and starting some new designs for future customers. One of these is Tulley’s Farm in England. I’ve been reviewing my collection of pictures and deciding which areas to focus on first. It is always exciting to begin new designs. I have no shortage of exciting ideas. Stay tuned…
