From the pages of my notebooks - Ideas that got the chop.

…but swine flu

sorry.

…to understand why “Hell is Full of Our Souls”

This is one that didn’t make the cut. I really like it but the one the client chose was probably better. Anyway the idea was about art as spiritual nourishment and the connection between food and the creative urge.

All I have been posting here is, I suppose, a series of cases of what-might-have-beens. That said, this is the one I was most gutted about. The logo was for Cow’s Lane Fashion Market and the idea was simple – the origin of the letter A as an upside down heifer’s head. The version here is not the properly typeset version but just represents the idea. I looked forward to the execution and having HUGE As everywhere.

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My two favourite parts of it were that the N, S, E & W were all together like a jumbled compass and that it kind of read like it said “any fashion market” (N E Fashion Market)

This was a major Lost Cause for me. A few years ago I wrote a few pieces of ambient electronic music. I have no grounding in music and little or no understanding of it beyond an unsophisticated appreciation. As a result I have been reluctant to “show” these pieces. I will put them up on A Worthy Cause over the next week, as long as I can get over my abiding sense of musical inferiority. They are collected under the name Silent Memories.