What I'm doing now.

Updated June 2021

I am back in my home studio sporting a fierce t-shirt tan after an epic family holiday. Our two weeks of adventure started in Snowdonia, North Wales, before heading to sunny Suffolk (South East) the driest county in England.

We filled our time with things we love. Climbing giant granite boulders, kayaking on glassy mountain lakes, slow walks in ancient meadows and long quiet beach days. Family, friends, barbecues and adventure with no wi-fi or devices to distract us.

It felt like a return to normal. A sense of freedom without questions or boundaries. Together without caution. Longer hugs making up for lost time. A strong reminder that the good stuff is in the experience of life. Getting out there and living it, connecting and sharing. Not in pseudo experiences lived online.

It's cliché to say you need a holiday to recover from your holiday. But I love the feeling of effort on your body, bordering on exhaustion. You know your days are well lived.

Project Availability.

My schedule is booked for the next few months. Here are some highlights.

I'm in the early stages of a large rebranding project in partnership with a Prolific North Top 50 Digital Agency. Currently hosting stakeholder interviews and brand workshops before advising on naming, visual identity and web design. As ever, some of my work is wrapped up in NDA's so I'm unable to share specifics at this stage.

Visual Method continue to push the boundaries of CGI and interactive content creation. I'm working with these titans of visual to give them a new home online and support their planned growth. More on this soon.

Snowboard International. A core independent print magazine is launching this winter. In our pervasive digital world I'm stoked to be working on a project focused on something I love with the permanence of printed media. It's slow, deliberate and meaningful.

My next availability is currently September onwards but things can change. Please contact me for more details and to discuss projects at design@markjanson.com.

Writing.

I'm spending more time writing and attending a copywriting course to gain more structured experience.

You're good with words. You write well. Are compliments I often hear. Which is a little hard to accept as someone who flunked his GCSE English (too) many years ago.  Writing is rarely my primary output. As a designer my solutions to creative challenges are visual. A logo, flyer, brochure, presentation, website, app design are all outputs you pay me for. Things words are part of.

However, I've worked on many projects with no content at the start. In those cases, where the project objective is clear but content is lacking, I write. Solving the supply issue by creating content to fit. With a strong caveat - this is placeholder copy that needs review.

Often, my copy for those projects is approved for use in the real world. My big realisation, besides not getting paid officially for copywriting is; I solve most of my creative challenges with words first and I want to, officially, write more.

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