Design for Life

For nearly twenty years I designed sleeves for the Network DVD label. It’s fair to say that I got the job on the strength of having known the company CEO Tim Beddows since childhood, but I was also uniquely qualified for the role, which involved designing packaging and promotional items for releases of vintage TV series. For as long as I’d been able to hold a pencil and make marks with it, I’d been drawing my favourites from television, sometimes creating comics or books based on those series, and always paying special attention to the graphics, even if my attempts to render them in biro, pencil crayon and felt tip were often laughable. The Network DVD label has now sadly closed, following the untimely death of my old friend Tim. In this blog, I’ll be reviewing some of my work from the past 19 years, talking about how I created various designs, and occasionally sharing some of those that didn’t make the grade. First up, a design I did very recently for a revamp of Network’s Public Eye