Month: July 2016

Community Magazine

Post author By julesprichards
Post date July 22, 2016

I recently took on the role of Editor of the East Goscote Community Magazine, accompanied by the long-standing team of John, Dennis, Ian, David and Sue.

East Goscote’s original community magazine was the East Goscote Community News and was first published in 1969. It ceased publication in the 1980s. A magazine was then produced via photocopy at Wreake Valley College. In 1993 David Cannon took over the editor’s position of The Long Furrow from Lyn Palmer. David had the magazine reproduced by East Goscote’s very own ‘Clipper Print’. David still contributes the Greener Goscote material today. It’s now reproduced by the reliable ‘Anchor Print‘ in Syston. Old issues can be seen on the Town Council website here.

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As Long Furrow’s new Editor, I have attempted to revitalise the look and content of the latest issue, and have produced the issue for August – November. We currently have 1300 copies of the 24-page magazine distributed seasonally to all business and residential addresses in East Goscote. You can see the new August issue here:
Long Furrow Community Magazine – August-Nov 2016

Long Furrow says:
“It’s your East Goscote– you live here, and give Goscote its life-liness. This magazine is for you. It’s a place to share your business, to share your passions, to share your news, to share your views.
If your organisation or club has something to say, let us know, and we can feature a bit about what and why you do what you do! Drop us a line…
We hope you might find something new in these pages – if not, perhaps you could send something in for others to discover? It’s your East Goscote, it’s your Long Furrow.”

***** UPDATE *****
Due to other commitments, after 5 issues, I stopped Editing Long Furrow in Oct 2017.

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Street Signage…

Post author By julesprichards
Post date July 21, 2016

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The new HUB Café space in Syston, and the Methodist Church needed some new large format street signage – ‘all are welcome’, ‘open’, ‘come on in’ etc.

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A selection of signage, from invites to the ‘OPEN’ cafe to call to worship on Sundays and the weekday communion:

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If I can help you with similar just shout! @julesprichards

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A logo – Central Methodist Church Helston

Post author By julesprichards
Post date July 18, 2016

And so, I was asked by a man with a definitive Cornish twang “Any one know of a firm that can design logos quickly for me?”

Rev. Danny Reed and team, at Central Methodist Church Helston Cornwall, wanted a new logo with a modern feel. As clients often do, Danny had an idea or two: They liked the idea of the t in central being a cross. They fancied primary colour illustration of people praising. They wanted the logo to convey happiness and family… “Any chance of a sunrise behind the cross?”… “more sun like than ray like?” – It’s quite usual for a client to have ideas about what they want, and usually, these can be accommodated.

Ideally, the logo simply and clearly needs to evoke what you are, with a feel of the root values why you are. You need to consider its use on various formats. Generally, the simpler the better.

After 10 days of a this and that, a little of which you can see right >, we settled on the below.

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Book Covers

Post author By julesprichards
Post date July 12, 2016

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A few years back, I was asked to design a book cover for a new book; “A Bike for Life” by Dave Warnock – see below.

I’ve recently been asked to rework another book cover; “As a Child” by Phil Steer.

“As a Child” by Phil Steer.

My new cover design is a revision of the original design; a distilling of the existing design.

Keep it simple is a good rule, and in this case, it’s specifically apt. I hope it works – simple, little, the power of minutia…
I have kept Phil’s previous font and simply reflected colours out of the newly masked reduced photo.

‘Packed full of thought-provoking truths’
‘A good devotional read or for anyone with a busy schedule’

‘unless you change and become like little children …’

As a Child is an exploration of this call to childlikeness, this call to littleness – a call made not to children, but to adults – not to those who are naturally childlike, but to those who have grown out of their childlike nature.

“A Bike for Life” by Dave Warnock

I created Dave’s cover from scratch. The final design was chosen from a variety of options in a range of colours.
I shot a selection of photos, and retouched the one selected to appear on the cover.

Cycling trends, maintenance, manufacturing, lifestyle, safety, attitudes, infrastructure…
From saddles to shoes, fixies to trikes, Dave’s been there..

His book “A Bike for Life” discusses Dave’s “dream to create a bike to transform life. How your choices can help you embrace and celebrate life, not just for you but for others to.

Two good books! Two good covers. Two good blokes! (and me)

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Summer?

My wife’s computer tells her, that a year ago today, we had a water fight in the back garden with the kids to keep cool! Ah… summer!

It may not be hot and sticky and Aldi may not be piling up the Pimms alternatives – we may not be waxing the surfboard or de-crusting the barbecue grill – but it is still summer.

Yes, I do love an Andalusian summer, I love a Greek garlicky feta cheese grilled to perfection, and I love the bluest of blue skies; I was brought up with them in Mount’s Bay. But, I am a firm believer that; although our worldview has been enchanted with greener grass in the summer, and the lure of a better life when it’s sunny or sodden with supposed doom of a damp grey sky; life is still good.

Even if clouds obscure the scorching sun from view and a cold breeze is all we feel – we are alive, life can be good, and peace is but a breath away… #perspective #hopes #expectations. Yes, also there is the crap in life – it’s not fair – it truly is hard to understand – disease, injustice and ignorance is real, and there are nasty attitudes out there where people seemingly don’t give a fig for anyone but themselves.

I left an upbringing in Cornwall in the late 1992 and have always searched for a replacement for the Cornish ‘contentment’, the peace of a flat sea, the endless horizon of Mount’s bay, an alternative to the bluest blue sky that St. Ives nestles under. I have always sought a comforting alternative to the rugged Cornish summer, with hot granite, and fertile bracken, fish, ice-cream, sand, sea, and essential energy…
Since then, I have found similar in places like Cyprus, Nice, Thassos, La Rochelle, Andalucia, and even Tunisia and Lanzarote. But, I have also found this ‘peace’ in Crewe, Wales, Bradford and Leicester.

It’s not easy when so much of our culture points to what we must have, find or master next, to gain satisfaction. It really is not easy, when we have been con-scripted as consumers to at least take part in the game to survive.

Be it summer or not, the energies of life, and the glimpses of peace that we may have been fortunate to feel on our faces should be valued and carried with us. Everywhere you go, take a little weather with you – if you can.

On a different, but not entirely unrelated tack – I have composed three artworks, fueled by my recent reflections of the ‘natural’, to put forward for a local summer display: