Introduction As a practicing illustrator I utilise satirical imagery to apportion strength of focus in an effort to illicit effective codices of truths. Satire exists as a construct within any given place and time. It is pertinent to the time of being and to the individuals within the culture it resides. Declercq states; satire helps us cope with a morally sick world, helping us to deal with the limits of critique through the solace of pleasurable autotelic engrossment in entertainment, satire develops comic and ironic coping strategies that we can fruitfully adopt in a world that is sick beyo ..read more

Satire today has great viability and impetus within a society that is estranged from itself. In times of high insecurity, and an anger of social inequalities along with the general public's disillusionment, of the power elite, has enabled a revived focus on humor, and satire to vent public opinion, and appease anger and frustration. The relevance of satire can be observed within the current revival of Spitting Image (Fluck: Law1984) for example, or the ongoing ever more vicious satirical cartoons in the national press, or the relatively recent digital Meme’s that have seen a proliferation in m ..read more

A Beautiful Daisy isn't it...A flower is a quality thing, I think the majority of us would agree. The overall quality of a flower is dependant on a number of strategies produced by nature. A flower can't exist very long without light, warmth, water, and a particular soil type. All these factors, by lesser or greater extent, impact the quality of the flower.  Crum Is extremely diligent about quality control. Our company ethos is based within a quality framework. It is paramount that the inner workings of our organisation are cohesive, and efficient, ensuring that the end product of all ..read more

CRUM Copywriting can provide the right words for your websites, press releases and blogs There are so many skills needed to run your own business. It is impossible to master them all!  The likes of Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Daniel Ekk and Jeff Bezos and others have become so successful by concentrating on what they do best - and delegating some aspects of what needs to be done to people with the expertise to do so. Promoting what you do in the best way possible is one of the most important things you will do in business.  Expert copywriting through CRUM Copywriting ..read more

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  Hello. I am John Hogan the MD of Crum. Crum as a design studio is an  accumulation of many years ( I am now 52 ) of image making. I actually had the concept of Crum when I was a young boy. I remember thinking that it would be a good name because it defined my reasoning at the time. The reasoning  that the world and the universe is a massive  place, and I am just a tiny speck, but even though I was tiny, I had hope and aspirations for the future, which implied that I was also huge. I then married the analogy of a Crum with  the hugeness of aspiration, It was then on ..read more

  Of course not. There is a lot of nonsense proliferated on the web these days, about print media being dead. Think about it though, huge corporate businesses continue to utilise print media in all their marketing, and within their offices as does every other businesses large and small. They all use  posters, banners, business stationary, packaging design, the list goes on and on, of course print is not dead, it may have taken a back seat in some quarters, but generally, it remains as popular as ever. Indeed, we cant actually live without it in many cases. We now live in a progres ..read more