schmO...

 

The graphic design and illustration portfolio of Somhairle MacDonald.

Me and my schmO have been creating since 2001 and have built up an original and diverse portfolio. This site is designed to display the latest and greatest of my work.

I love to work on creative and imaginative projects using traditional media and techniques along side cutting edge digital technology.

Schmo provides a tailored and bespoke aproach to your project, delivering inspiring and unique results that scream individuality and creativity.

For a more in depth look at all my work please visit my blog.

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I’m an author, don’t you know?
So in a bit of a change of direction I’ve started to write articles for Creative Boom. It’s an online magazine centred around the creative industries. Go check out my first post here. I’ve also been beavering writing a few posts, taking photos and making videos for adventure blog high-8. I have to say the blogging [...]

Is this the year?
Is this the year of Typography on the web? I certainly hope so. It would be nice to use more than 12 of the 1000’s of font’s I own. Fontdeck promises to host licensed and (mostly) free to use fonts that can be included in your site. Sounds good hopefully it will live up to [...]

Un-abashed, genuine creativity.
My daughter who’s 3 has been getting quite good at painting and drawing. Her pre-conceptions of form, colour and technique are so unbridled she has an ability to simply create. The results are quite a revelation, the lack of schooling or influence means she can simply put marks on paper and enjoy it. If I [...]