See you later, WordPress 👋

I wasn’t best pleased to discover that the mobile version of lauriewoodruff.com has been taken over by adverts:

I’m therefore in the process of applying some skills learnt here along with some new learning tools available here to construct a shiny new site here -> https://lauriehfw.github.io/

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Website upgrade..

I've finally managed to launch a *shiny new* website!  It's the same address as before - lauriewoodruff.com - but with thanks to wordpress, it's easier for me to keep up to date.. and more likely to be found via search engines.

So. I'd like to extend a warm invite to everyone to take a peek and share.  

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Some content may be familiar but there are new projects to explore too (e.g. creative workshops), which hopefully offer compensation to anyone missing my old landing page*

*This was sadly sacrificed in the name of progress, but I've posted it below for posterity...

Wood Street Whimsy

Should have posted about this eons ago… 

For a challenge, I did some out-of-my-comfort-zone drawings for @thepinkbearclub to be used on their website, including these delightful bear heads, who appear when their lifeless alter egos are stroked (or rolled over with your mouse).  The brief was for a pink bear that appears “foul, animalistic, impulsive, grumpy, perverted and filthy".  I also designed a damask wallpaper for the background with some some discreetly hidden requested items...

From today, they’re holding a four week fiesta of all things pink bear-y at Wood Street Indoor Market, E17, London... So if you live dahn south, go and delve into their forest. 

I've organised the production of some merchandisey bits from the genuinely @awesomemerch...  So if you’d like to get your hands on a badge, magnet or pocket mirror branded with your favourite bear, send me an email and I’ll organise a method to get one to you.

uk cod

after attending a BNI breakfast get together, met a couple of people who were putting together a pitch for the UK council on Deafness website. they wanted to put forward both a traditional photographic based template, and an illustrative one, so asked me to produce a banner that visualised sound.

wanted to avoid being too clichéd and started trying to be all conceptual… but ended with an abstract landscape the incorporates different environments (city/residential/country etc..) within a sound wave shape. although obvious, i figured the overall shape has an immediate connotation and the necessary impact to hold the attention of prospective website users. i thought interlinking shapes and lines could relate to UKCoD's umbrella organisation status... and i've added in textures to hopefully suggest depth of sound whilst appealing to other senses such as sight and touch, which are heightened when hearing impaired.

we didn’t win the pitch, but i’m not seeing it as failure, considering we were up against an agency who specialise in websites for people with disabilities…