Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 08/07/2026Shall be ordering all the other books. Got to where Felix escaped Madame Joubert with his dignity more or less intact plus 5kg of Lekker Medisyne Trommel! People may say it’s all too far fetched. I’d say they’ve never properly experienced the wine world! Especially in the era I think it’s set in. 010
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 03/07/2026As 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 000
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 03/07/2026Halfway 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 🍷 111
Reposted by Mark Lawson DesignNightingale Cider Co @nightingalecider.bsky.social · 19/06/2026We 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 1129
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 19/06/2026Today’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 010
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 16/06/2026Have 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! 010
Reposted by Mark Lawson DesignDuille @duille.com · 12/05/2026Design 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 201695475
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 07/11/2025Until 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 😉 110
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 11/08/2025Tried 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… 010
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 26/06/2025Quite agree. Having tried quite a number of no / low alc wines I’ve concluded they don’t work if you’re after a ‘wine’ experience. The alcohol is a key factor in carrying the delicate complex flavour and aroma compounds to the palate. Beer is more forgiving and there are many great no alc beers. 100
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 19/06/2025A 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! 020
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 19/06/2025Glad you made the planting day in 2017, sadly I couldn’t attend but I do have my honorary trowel 😊 It is a lovely drop 🍾 and I like the higher % Pinot in the blend of Edition I, so will be interesting to see what future Editions are like when they up the Chardonnay % 010
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 29/05/2025As someone who’s worked with some dubiously technical wine notes for consumer menus etc I fear the issue is brand manager time and being too time poor and close to the trade. When a business carries 1000+ SKUs, writing simple consumer friendly wine notes doesn’t happen, as much as I agree with you! 000
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 20/05/2025Always 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. 000
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 18/05/2025A view from atop a ladder at Olympia, London installing graphics for a client at London Wine Fair #designer #graphics #vinyl 050
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 02/05/2025Having 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 😉 000
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 30/04/2025Hi Sorcha, drop a line to the UK distributor www.hatchmansfield.com/our-winemake... who can clue you in on where it’s available. I believe supply is limited so may only be available on-trade for now (don’t quote me). The Evremond team are lovely if you’re ever in Kent www.domaineevremond.comhatchmansfield.comDomaine Evremond - Hatch Mansfield 110
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 30/04/2025Pleased 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 000
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 16/04/2025Not as it was a decade ago. It’s had a quieter period of late so we shall see. But a little less hectic, still with plenty to explore, is no bad thing. 000
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 14/04/2025Plenty to do in this shorter Easter run up week. London Wine Fair graphics prep for one client plus a few other things. #design #graphicdesign 000
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 09/04/2025A statement I don’t think any of us thought we’d ever read in our lifetimes. 120
Reposted by Mark Lawson DesignGreg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 07/04/2025This is great, although I will defend the Oxford comma with my dying breath 1527932
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. 000
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 01/04/2025Today’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 000
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 31/03/2025Congratulations 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 #BCorphatchmansfield.comHatch Mansfield Joins the B Corp Community - Hatch MansfieldJoining 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... 020
Mark Lawson Design @marklawson.design · 26/03/2025Hello 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. 020