Author Archives: Somhairle

Experiments in Cabinetry

By Somhairle | Published: May 14, 2013

Two drawers, each 45x95x25mm internal diameter, in a sturdy case. All made from the same layered-painted-and-varnished paper I use for jewellery.

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Unexpected green glazed tile

By Somhairle | Published: April 2, 2013
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Choral artwork

By Somhairle | Published: January 25, 2013

I’ve been donated a pile of these beautiful choral & organ scores to work with, now they’re unfit for use. Really looking forward to starting off on them. First up, a set of jewellery using sheet music from Handel’s Messiah. I’m still trying to decide what to do with the cover of this one, though [...]

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Blocking contactless payment – or, make your bank card a tinfoil hat

By Somhairle | Published: January 23, 2013

Contactless payment cards, touch-for-access ID cards, and prepay travelcards all use the same technology – RFID. This is great in principle, but it means that you can’t keep more than one of them together without either confusing the readers, or accidentally using the wrong one. I wanted to be able to touch my wallet on [...]

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Valentine’s Day

By Somhairle | Published: January 17, 2013

I’m not a fan of the consumption-and-expectation culture, nor of the idea that love is best expressed by garish red heart-shaped dustcatchers from a High Street shop. But there are a lot of other ways to express love, and even when I don’t mark a celebration myself it’s a very rewarding thing to help others [...]

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Christmas cards

By Somhairle | Published: November 30, 2012

Here are three of 2012′s Christmas card designs! They (and a few others) will be on my stall at the Lionheart Market in Leytonstone on Saturday 1st December and Saturday 15th December, along with jewellery, artwork, and Christmas tree decorations.

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Gaudy Night play script

By Somhairle | Published: November 20, 2012

I & some friends recently spent a weekend acting some classic murder mysteries for our own entertainment. For various reasons, we needed to produce scripts for them – private use only, so this isn’t a copyright issue – and it would have been a shame not to do our own cover designs with original artwork. [...]

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Raffle Prizes

By Somhairle | Published: October 15, 2012

I was asked a while back if I’d donate something to a raffle in aid of Special Effect, who specialise in adapting console and computer controls for physically disabled children and adults – that’s everything from making a 360 controller a bit easier to use, all the way to tailoring eye-tracking software for the otherwise [...]

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Lighting next week

By Somhairle | Published: October 10, 2012

Next week, I’m lighting “Dinner”, by Moira Buffini, at the Network Theatre underneath Waterloo Station in London. That’s Tuesday 16th October to Friday 19th October – doors open at 19:00 for 19:30, and tickets are £11 from Ticketsource. Click here to download the flyer in PDF. The lighting won’t be anything particularly fancy, but then [...]

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Design & Branding

By Somhairle | Published: October 4, 2012

A couple of extremely talented musician friends asked me to do some graphic design & branding for them recently – here’s the results. “Her Name Means Wolf is a music project by singer Claudia “Clouds” Guastella which draws many of its influence from British Isles folk. New videos around once a week, or whenever Clouds [...]

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