Ships ahoy

I designed a book for a Naval oriented friend of mine and spent some time sketching ships. Well, one ship in particular - the HMS York. It was good fun. The ship is inscribed on the inside page of the book and worked really well with the 'ocean' theme. Still one of my favourite books to date.

Themo Peel!

I don't know why it took me so long to develop my own logo. I've recently finished a book binding course and was so enthused with learning to finish books with embossed letters. I thought, 'I need to develop my own mark so that whenever I create a book I can tag it.' So, the idea train got on the tracks.

I've long since loved exclamation points. Often when I'm sending emails or writing articles I'm always asked 'Why so many exclamation marks?!!!!' The answer is simple, because I'm usually excited!

Of course my initials had to be part of it as well. I tried to get the 'T', 'H' and 'P' into it similar to my signature which actually looks like a giant 'H' and 'Peel'. However, I feel in some way the '!' has become my signature, another part of me just as much as the 'H'. '!' is what I stand for. So, what you get is T!P. And, I think it will look pretty swish as an embossed stamp on a book cover. It's easily simplified to about three or four quick lines.
So Themo H Peel has officially made his mark!

Dragged into the 21st century

I've succumbed to pressure as I'm working towards getting my book business started and have finally set up a twitter account. It's all about have a presence on the web these days, eh?

http://twitter.com/#!/ThemoHPeel