I'll be working with Chris Ball and Andy Barlow's mountain bike tuition company, DirtSchool this month (you will have seen Chris and Andy ripping up the trails in the Border's trail centres, and Chris' monthly 'How To' feature in MBR mag). You can also check them out at Scotland's first ever cycle show on 16/17 April 2011, appropriately named The Scottish Bike Show.
Studio:
Vickers Creative has moved into a new studio on North Claremont Street - a beautiful top floor office in a sandstone tenement building right next to Kelvingrove Park. For those not familiar with Glasgow's West End, it's a lovely quiet area with loads of coffee shops and bars. (I'm lucky enough to have the An Clachan café on my doorstep selling their own Arabica ground coffee, and boy is it good!)
Cool stuff:
To brand myself in a way more fitting with my own ethos and give my stuff a more personal, analogue touch, I ordered some rubber stamps from Stamps Direct. Very impressed with the service, the stamps seem well made and should last many years. Cue stamping anything that will take a solvent ink! They're great fun and very affordable, and a supplied design doesn't cost any more to produce than stock lines of text.
Philosophy:
Vickers Creative is committed to ethical graphic design and print practices. Where possible, I will use printers and suppliers in your area, not overseas. You can be proud that as a small or growing business you are supporting other businesses in your community. I believe this is essential for keeping valuable skills in Scotland and the UK, and in building self-supporting communities for future generations.
Oh, one last thing...
Make sure you do something useful with the extra hour of daylight in the evenings!
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