Design Musings

Joseph Bouzaglo is currently undertaking a professional placement with us at Pickle Design, so we gave him the opportunity to write this week's blog post. This is what he had to say: "I am currently undertaking a Professional Placement here at Pickle Deign. I am a post-graduate student on MA 20th Century Art & Design: Histories and Theories, at University College Falmouth. To support our learning on the course, we are encouraged to experience life in in real world creative businesses. Hopefully, we can also contribute something of our knowledge, so that there is an exchange. "Pickle have been established around four years. Working with them is both stimulating and humbling. Stimulating, because they are passionate, excited by ideas and interested in their clients - as you would expect of a young design firm. However, it is also humbling. As a history student, my focus is pretty theoretical; I may have an overview of design's key turning points, of the facto...

Recently we completed a website for the arts materials and picture framers, Stable Art. They are tucked away off Bodmin high street in a specially converted, two story stable behind the Shire Hall. We organised a photoshoot which captured the ambiance of the place - exposed wooden beams and natural light creates the perfect setting for this artistic shop. Our brief was simple, to show what this hidden gem had to offer, and the design focused mainly on making the most of the photography. The owner had an illustration he was proud of, so on the home we see it fading into a photograph to set the scene. The strong images make each page quite striking, although for the general colour scheme is comprised of muted shades of taupe and gray. Centre stage are the photographs, heavily cropped to reveal the pattern and symmetry in frames, rows of glossy paint and inks. Every page has a series of pictures subtly fading into the next, and other features include a downloadable price list. The...

We recently designed a logo for Bangors Organic, an organic guest house and restaurant in North Cornwall. They asked us to put together some adverts for a few magazines they advertise in including 'Living Earth' magazine. The advert is based on the design we created for their business cards featuring their bold logo. The tree that makes up a part of this logo provides a pretty and relevant background image. These are very small adverts so the task was to keep the text at a readable size whilst giving the information 'space to breathe'. Marie Lawley

This week we did an informal photoshoot at the Quarryman Inn, just outside Wadebridge. The accommodation that they offer is very spacious, modern and nicely furnished, we wanted to capture this by focusing on the finishing touches that make this flat so comfortable. The food was lovely and colourful which made it an easy subject. The natural light, and the textured background of the wooden table truthfully represented the good food and friendly atmosphere. The highlight of the afternoon though was photographing the beautiful desserts - which tasted as good as they looked! Marie Lawley

We are doing some more work for David at Buttermilk Shop at the moment, and were very pleased to hear that they have had their best Easter so far - and he attributed some of that success to the new packaging we gave them! You can see a selection of the packaging in the photo above, available from their shops in Padstow and other outlets, such as Kingsley Village. We are also really looking forward to working with them on an exciting design for their new e-commerce website. Marie Lawley