Creating Cameo Layouts...
I am honoured to have been asked by Simon Castens to play a part in the reprint of Iain's last book 'Creating Cameo Layouts'. Originally published in 2016 and with some substantial extra content to include it seemed a fantastic opportunity to revisit the original material and complete a re-design of the whole book... The intention has been to create something that feels 'traditional' Wild Swan whilst also updated, refreshed and with a cleaner layout style. I have enjoyed revisiting my collection of Wild Swan modelling titles to take inspiration from Paul Karau's earlier works - I hope readers won't notice - that is the sign I've done a good job... I've tried to make the most of Iain's own work and illustrations, reproducing these as large as the layout would allow. Simon and I have replaced images of poor quality with better copies or examples of similar content. It is very much still Iain's work, but hopefully presented in a way that feels ...
