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Autodidact, amiable, astute, assured, acroamatic, adventurous and slightly autistic - Logovend
is a single alliteration of an individual and that person, that's me
that is - James. Nice to meet you. So, more info, right?
I have drawn from an early age, spending hours
on my own scribbling away on paper my father purloined
from his work place with any pens and pencils I could
find around the house, resting on a piece of Perspex I had
taken from
my grandfather's workspace attic. Materials were later
upgraded when my mother took a part time job in an art
supply shop and brought home free samples.
Unfortunately none of these early adolescent masterpiece of robots,
faces, cars, birds of prey, and buildings remain due to an
attic clear out.
Then my first time away from art came throughout my teenage school
days, due to a mixture of spiteful, bitter, art
teachers, and the home-computer revolution. The period
lasted right up until dropping out of my computer
science degree and an opportunity arose to devote time
once again when I moved into the agreeable solitude of living alone in
a studio basement flat. None of these paintings remain - save for
some pieces that may have found their way onto old friends
and acquaintance's walls. Who knows? I soon relapsed
into writing, reading, drinking, women, dancing, losing and
moving both houses and job at an alarming rate.
Not the stuff of great press releases.
Where am I now?
Spells in Paris, Bologna, Barcelona had muted my words and halted writing
temporarily and dumped me back on the island of drawing
and art for the last four years. This is where
I find myself foraging around for scraps of creation in
a place I find strangely familiar warm and hopefully I
will not go into remission & something will remain -
nameless walls, empty attics or no.
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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.
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.
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Monday morning should be any 6 year olds worst
nightmare - back at school - not for me. It was my
favourite time of the week as we had to tell the story
of our weekend, we were also allowed to accompany the
simple words we knew with a single picture. The 'Here &
Now' workbooks gave me my first taste for imagination
and lies - or what adults call fiction. Oh how the
teacher must have smirked at some of the things I said I
got up to.
Throughout my school education I was equally encouraged and spurned
depending on my teacher and how important they felt
spelling and long words were. Until I arrived in my
fifteen year old 'I-am-soooooo-misunderstood' poetry
phase. This section of my writing didn't last too long
as soon shed the skin of the poet when I realised that
no-one liked or read poetry apart from other poets. It
was a self-contained and pointless medium but left me
with the feeling of words, pacing and meter which have
become invaluable tool when writing short stories.
Over the years I have drifted in and out of writing stories,
collecting notebooks of ideas and snippets eventually
crafting stories years later.
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There is a simple question for any writer to ask
them self - why write?
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I have been designing on computers from an early age, my first paid commission was when I was ten years old.
I have worked in a design capacity for several companies throughout my working career (Panrix, Nochex, ICI). I have also worked for a number of design studios in Leeds and London (Gas Street Studios, Kludo Studios), both as a commissioned freelancer and in fulltime employment.
Logovend is completely freelance venture, independent of any other companies or investors.
The original reasoning behind the conception of Logovend as an internet-only freelance design studio was simple; keep the costs down to pass the savings onto the clients and to utilise the net to free me from a specific location. This has allowed me to both build a reputation and work globally; having worked for clients from Australia, America, South Korea, Hong Kong, China, Canada, Belgium and many more countries.
If it can been designed I can do it!
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I approach designing like anything else in
life..
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This is my favourite way to talk with people. It's a free service with allows you to chat back and forth over ideas, answer questions and send files. I'm available to chat most working hours. My ID for MSN Messenger once you have downloaded it and want to add me is Logovend@gmail.com
All emails answered within 8 working hours.
Because I find myself in various different cities I do not have a
permanent telephone number and calls would be expensive, I find Skype the best way to make and take calls - plus it's free! If you want to give me a call my ID is Logovend
There are no current planned shows.
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