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Graphic Design Logovend was created with the sole aim of offering logos at an affordable price with quick turnaround, a fact that remains unchanged, although over time the services on offer have expanded to include print design (brochures, stationery, flyers), web design, flash animation and ebay templates. Basically, if it can be graphically designed James can do it. Whether you need solid, simple, elegant design or something more funky and in-your-face; whether you’re looking for illustration, layout or a full branding exercise James designs to your requirements. With over 15 years experience both designing in-house for companies and as a freelance designer in his own right, he knows how to get the right results first time. This has allowed him to build a solid reputation globally; completing work for clients in such far away corners of the globe as Australia, America, South Korea, Hong Kong, China, Canada, Belgium, and India. The Logovend Design Ethos is to read the client, read the market and produce a perfectly balanced end product. Writing When James gets time away from graphic designing, he spends his time undertaking the equally creative but more enjoyable pursuit of writing fiction. Due to his short attention span and / or time constraints, his primary medium is the short-story. Stories in his collection range from the personal to the absurd, from the standard narrative structure of start-middle-end to more experimental avant garde end of literature, from the sharp shock of fifty words, to sprawling lengths of a four-movement symphony. Although all the stories are available on this site for people to read, James feels that the proper medium for literature is the printed word, therefore there is also printed versions collected into booklets under the auspicious banner of ‘Cheap Literature’, which he hands out for free if you happen to bump into him in the street. He also posts his printed booklets to any post box in the world as long costs for stamps and printing are covered. He has also working on other narrative-based projects, including plays - for radio and stage, a novel - which is nowhere near finish, and a six-part sitcom for television – which is finished and is in the process of being pitched. Art James has always explorer the freer visual art of painting; and over the last five years has developed his own brand of Digital Vector Painting - primarily concentrating on portraiture. He has honed his skills in on a number of signature styles, which he continues to perfect in his spare time, whilst also offering clients the option to commission such art works. He also is sometimes inspired to paint landscapes, cityscapes, anything else which springs from his imagination; and also feels morally superior by recycling old piece of half-finished work and un-used graphics that he has created over time whilst performing work for clients and mould them into new, ecologically-sound, conceptual paintings. Methology The Modernist approach is one of abstraction, impressionism, symbolism and expressionism to get to the crux and essence of any form or concept. In this way, I traverse well worn paths in my chosen medium - the vector. I work exclusively this format, using a PC illustration application, which goes by the unfortunately moniker of Xara Xtreme. Avoiding pixels, film grain, or the textural nature of paint allows me true and complete analogue freedom to meld subtly of soul, depth of personality and twist ideas in to my own agenda. Vectors allows me to build up images using hundreds of shapes and add extensive subtle and small-scale detail. Pierre Étienne Bézier was a genius.  Influences Exquisite research, colour, bad jpeg compression, good music compression, dynamic and angular music (Venetian Snares, Hella, Burial, Nation of Ulysses, Aphex Twin, Lightning Bolt, Funki Porcini, Shellac, The Necks, to name a few), art history, the news (handed), Bacon's drinking, good science, bad science, the holographic universe, genetics, 'be-on-a-date' UK politics, transparency, spoonerisms, Brautigan's literature, swimming pools, alliteration, Warhol's balls, black humour, anger, excellent food, mess, repetition, booze, repetition, misogyny, hippy-hate, European cities, honesty, humour, the countryside and the guts of good old Chuck Close.