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Mark Lawson Design

@marklawson.design
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Graphic designer of over 30 years in Cornwall, UK, working primarily in wine & food, also seeking clients in the green economy, sustainability and renewables. Creative problem solving, attention to detail, with an honest ethical approach.

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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 03/07/2026
As the weather warms up again here in Cornwall, we’re working on a wine list catalogue, some promo menu clip-on hangers, and a fun animated email footer for an industrial client. Heading into the weekend ☀️ #design #graphicdesign
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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 03/07/2026
Halfway through this cheeky fruity tome - thoroughly enjoying. I’ve never worked directly in the wine trade but 3 decades brushing shoulders working for the trade as a designer & I def recognise the characters. A fun read & I look forward to others in the series by @peterstaffordbow.bsky.social 🍷
Book cover of Corkscrew by Peter Stafford-Bow, a dusky blue background with an angularly illustrated drawing of a white shirted man sniffing a glass of red wine surrounded by articles of the wine trade - a Minstrel of Wine certificate, boxes of wine, a bull, an ostrich and a coach?!!
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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 21/06/2026
Logo perfection. Sublime work 👌🏻
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Nightingale Cider Co @nightingalecider.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
We need apple pickers for this year's harvest!💪 Harvest is still a few months away, but we need of hard-working individuals to help us pick apples on our farm in Tenterden, Kent. We pay competitively and are a great team to be part of. 1/2
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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 19/06/2026
Today’s design tasks - a short quarterly charity report and a range of sizes & versions of animated wine ads for use on Meta platforms by another client. Busy end of week. #design #advertising #reports #animation
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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 16/06/2026
Have been neglecting updates! We’ve been recently busy with Hatch Mansfield on their London Wine Fair stand graphics, helping R&R with their PIWOSA wine tasting collateral, and my local youth charity with reports and flyers. Plus a couple fun logos and animated gif work. #design life!
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Duille @duille.com · 12/05/2026
Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co
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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 07/11/2025
Until this year I don’t think I’ve ever seen an em dash — in any client copy, yet suddenly they’re all over the place, looking ugly and out of place. What’s that all about? I’ve been quietly replacing them with less offensive looking punctuation 😉
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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 11/08/2025
Tried generative AI in Adobe Illustrator using a detailed description to work to, asking it to use an element already on the page to build a vector graphic. Results were a complete fail. Is AI really taking our jobs …. Yet? It couldn’t even fill the space I asked to fill. It was like clip art…
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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 19/06/2025
A quiet design week, some exhibition display artwork involving interesting photo compositing edits and a new customer form for clients, and exploring interesting print binding techniques like Singer sewing, while trying to keep me and the cocker spaniel cool!
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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 20/05/2025
Always great to meet up with long time clients but this week it’s a start to find new clients to help. Businesses in Cornwall, Devon and beyond, I’d love to help you look great and grow with lovely designed brochures - printed and online, ads, display materials, branding and more! Get in touch.
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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 18/05/2025
A view from atop a ladder at Olympia, London installing graphics for a client at London Wine Fair #designer #graphics #vinyl
A view across an exhibition stand from up a ladder looking at the progress of the build near complete. On the left some vinyl lettering in the process of being stuck to the wall above a wooden header with light fittings in. Off in the distance are various display stand tables with photographic images of vineyards and winemakers. A step ladder is in the scene also!A view up inside from an exhibition stand floor to the arched partly glazed roof of the Kensington Olympia Grand Hall where the clouds and blue sky can be seen through the many many panes of glass above us. A hint of the hanging sign saying London Wine Fair below
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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 02/05/2025
Having fun getting the colour of rose right for a line art drawing visual for a rose champagne client 🍾 . The colour I sampled apparently looks a bit orange. So I’ve gone back to 5 different neutrally lit reference photos and sampled the rose colour. All shades of orange! The eyes play tricks 😉
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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 30/04/2025
Pleased to get the last of our clients graphics production orders out to suppliers today. Next stop installation alongside the stand build contractor at London’s Olympia for London Wine Fair 2025! #wine #design #exhibition #graphics
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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 14/04/2025
Plenty to do in this shorter Easter run up week. London Wine Fair graphics prep for one client plus a few other things. #design #graphicdesign
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is great, although I will defend the Oxford comma with my dying breath
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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 02/04/2025
@farplace.bsky.social thanks for the follow. A name I recognise thanks to design work with Dave at Stamps n All.
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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 01/04/2025
Today’s design tasks:- order some lovely 400gsm Uncoated postcards on GF Smith Munken Pure card for a sparkling wine client. Plus POS display visuals and letterhead designs for another. If time allows start on another client’s London Wine Fair stand graphics. #graphicdesign #print #pointofsale
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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 31/03/2025
Congratulations to my wine client - Hatch Mansfield - for certifying as a B Corporation, for high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability. www.hatchmansfield.com/hatch-mansfi... #design #wine #HatchMansfield #BCorp
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Hatch Mansfield Joins the B Corp Community - Hatch Mansfield
Joining the growing movement of companies using business as a force for good, Hatch Mansfield has announced its certification as a B Corporation (or B Corp. Verified by B Lab, the not-for-profit behin...
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Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 26/03/2025
Hello BlueSky! I’m a graphic designer here in Cornwall close to the Devon border. 3+ decades experience with top wine trade clients across the UK and would love to hear from you for brochure, advertising, exhibition display graphics + referrals. Primarily work in print but cover many disciplines.
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