In July 2018 II was invited to be a design team-lead in the new Project Resound project by Prof. Louis Baker of SCAD.
It was truly one of my most memorable trips that I’ve ever done…
Reggae Illustrations
I recently created a series of 3 illustrations of my favourite reggae singers at the moment. These illustrations were all done in the Procreate app on my iPad pro. I had a lot of fun creating these…
Website Redesigned!
Welcome to my brand spanking new personal website. I have made the decision to keep this site as just that: personal. Just over a year ago I formed a design agency that has its own website and I have decided that that is going to be the online home for my client work and commercial projects.
This updated version of nicholashuggins.com is going to be…
Restaurant Branding Challenge
Today I had some free time and decided to challenge myself by creating a brand identity in less than 5 hours. At around Midday I created a question on Instagram Stories asking for names & styles of restaurants. One of the responses was for a Sandwich restaurant called “On Bread” and this was the suggestion that I chose to go with.
Package Design Love - Pereg Gourmet
The grocery is never a place I would willfully find myself, however since embarking on carving out a niche as a Package Designer I decided that I should definitely go to the home of all these products – the supermarket. The grocery really is a haven for design (both good and bad) and …
DO View - Sign Painting
The sign painted by Bruce Cayonne for the event.
I've always loved Sign Painting. So when I heard that Design Objective would be hosting a viewing of Sign Painters, a film on sign painting, I knew I had to be there. The event was held at Grundlos Kollektiv, a new creative space on Cipriani Boulevard, and was…
Q&A with Nicholas Huggins in T&T Guardian
I was recently interviewed for REC magazine, a pull out in the T&T Guardian, see below to read the interview in full.
How I Started Doing Chalkboard Art
Let me give a bit of a back story as to how I got into illustrating chalkboards...
Matthew of Sticky Bones BBQ asked me one day if I would quote him to do some illustrations on the chalkboard...
The Sweet Beet Redesign
A couple spread from my sketch book
One of my recent projects was the redesign of The Sweet Beet labels. The brief was simple; Alix & Stefanie (The Sweet Beet co-founders) wanted new labels that carried a visual punch. Something that stood out on the shelves of the stores that carry their products along side other similar products of different brands. They wanted a product that they could proudly show off, and hopefully one that their customers will show off as well...
My First Week as a Freelancer
So last week Thursday was my last day as a McCann Port-of-Spain employee, and the day was bitter sweet. I said my good byes and that night I went with some friends to our favourite, Dr!nk Lounge & Bistro, to celebrate with some ... well ... Dr!nks. After that we…
How I grew my Instagram following to 5000 in 5 months
I started my Instagram journey on Feb 21st 2016 feeling pretty inspired. I made a pledge to post an illustration everyday onto the social media platform in the hope of becoming better at what I do and at the same time broaden my audience and get more
Talent
My name is Nick Huggins and I don't believe in talent. I never have and I probably never will. Well, at least the dictionary definition of Talent.
Talent, as defined by the top hit on google is...
How I Started My Own T-Shirt Brand **PART 2**
We ended up choosing the design to the far right.
In Part 1 of this series I outlined the process of coming up with a name and developing a brand identity for my t-shirt brand, Deftment. Now I will explain ....
How I Started My Own T-Shirt Brand **PART 1**
How Advertisers are using Pokemon Go
Unless you've been living under a Geodude for the last month, you would have heard about Pokemon Go by now. Pokemon Go will definitely...
My Top 5 Favourite Summer Olympic Logos
So with the 2016 Rio Olympics upon us, I decided to do a countdown of my Top 5 favourite logos from every Summer Olympic Games. Let me know which you like or if you think...
How to stay inspired?
There are some weeks where I feel a sense of artistic inspiration from morning until night and I find the ability to create a lot of illustrations and think of a bunch of cool ideas with seamless ease. Other weeks however, it is a bit of a struggle to find the energy to pull out a blank canvas or to create a new file in illustrator. If this happens to you as well, I've put together a few things I find helpful to do when I'm stuck in a rut that help me find the creative energy…
Jimi Hendrix Timelapse Video
Here's a timelapse video of an illustration that I did of Jimi Hendrix.
Enjoy.
10 Vector artists to follow on Instagram
Instagram has recently become my new favourite social media platform, and I have been spending maybe too much time on the app. Apart from posting everyday, I also thoroughly enjoy going through the feeds of other designers and illustrators. There are a few that when I see their work I think "dammit, I wish I thought of that." Here is a list of ten of those vector artists that I always keep up with (in no particular order.) Make sure to give them a Follow to be inspired everyday!
A few updates
deftment feature
Hey everyone, I just wanted to share some news/updates here…