by John | Mar 5, 2013
This design was a bit of a breakthrough moment, as it was the first time I began to experiment with patterns and textures. If you look closely, you’ll see that the T-Rex’s skin has a suitably mottled appearance. To get this effect I took a photo of a...
by John | Mar 5, 2013
This started life as a pun-based idea: the three kids would each have a speech bubble saying ‘Aaaar!’ and the tagline would be ‘Pirate School – the 3 Aaaars!’, which is meant to be a play on the 3 ‘Rs’ – reading,...
Home to tea-drinking dinosaurs, high-fiving lycanthropes, garrulous yaks and shifty-looking reindeer, Helicon Hill is the work of John Hughes, a designer and publisher based near Bristol in the U.K.