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My studio at Swan House

                                                                                                 

After having been brought up in an austere post-war rationed London and a series of boarding schools that I hated, I planned my escape, Steve McQueen like, not over the wire to Switzerland, but into a mid sixties London art school. Hornsey College of Art in North London was considered just about the coolest and best Art School in Europe at the time. In the evenings I could bus down the road and watch Jimmy Hendrix play upstairs at the Manor House pub, James Brown at the Cooks Ferry Inn or the Pink Floyd as the ‘house’ band at the UFO. London Swung, I remember it, and I was there!

After studying illustration at Hornsey and Graphic design at the LCP, I made a conscious decision before setting up on my own, to work for an ad agency, publishing house and design group. I did so at J Walter Thompson, Mitchell Beazley and Terence Conran Associates. By the mid seventies I had established my own design practice working for just about every interesting client I could think of. I mixed this work with lecturing in graphic design at St Martins School of Art and the London College of Printing, later to become the London Institute.

More recently, having moved to Suffolk, I’ve co-founded the Swan House restaurant, qualified as a Snow Sport England ski coach and met Carmela. And I enjoy graphic design and Swan House more than ever.

To see my portfolio visit: www.rolandblunk.com

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                                                                                      

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