Snares & Symbols
Hello! my name is James Thurman, I'm a freelance graphic designer/illustrator. I've set up this blog so people can view my work, progress and stuff that inspires me and makes me laugh.
See my portfolio: http://snaresandsymbols.daportfolio.com
Contact me at: james.thurman@hotmail.co.uk
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Pattern I’ve been working on for Interact magazine front cover.
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“Mani”, a photographer who has been to Homs several times, lived through and filmed the beginning of the assault, the effects on the population, and the response of the Free Syrian Army to the massacre, on the first day, of over 140 people.
While the world has become used to grainy shaky and gruesome footage and images from Homs fed through whatever internet connection is available, Mani’s crystal clear and incredible footage gives perhaps the clearest and most frightening account of what Homs has been like for the past three weeks.
I think channel 4 news team are amazing, the way they’ve used the death of the journalists to show even more terrible and shocking images (made by the deceased) of the Syrian conflict. Very respectful and what they would have wanted.
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Ok well I failed to mention that before Christmas i managed to get a freelance job as a junior designer on a design team at a company called 3663 (type food into a text). They are the 2nd largest catering distribution service in the UK and the office is in High Wycombe and I was really loving working there (working on mainly corporate stuff) after one week but then I managed to get tonsillitis for the billionth time and I couldn’t work a second week.
I gladly returned after my illness and found they had no work for me (as understandably the work i had before i was ill had been taken on by someone else in my absense) and since christmas they have still not needed me. I really appreciated the experience but I can’t help feel that 2 weeks would have been a lot more beneficial for my CV than one.
However I am now on a waiting list for a tonsillectomy, as it has clearly been the bane of my working life. 3663 have told me they may want me back in the near future, and I certainly hope so considering I have left my spare mouse there *_*
Since then i have been doing a few little jobs such as a programme for the panto my Dad did (i’ll explain in the new post).
I have also joined a volunteer scheme for a magazine called Interact which is an interfaith magazine but it’s really not that religious and neither am I, and attended their weekly meeting on monday night which was good, so i’m just waiting for the journalists to finish their first drafts so I and the other graphic designer can start visualising ideas. Nevertheless I do have a few ideas i’m thinking about anyway.
If you’ve read all this can you heart it because then I know who to give chocolates to.
