Maraid Design

S’Express Mix – The Samples

Posted October 9, 2020 by Richard

I love ‘Theme from S’Express’, it’s magical and makes me happy every time I hear it. I started to get obsessed about how Mark Moore had created it and found a list of all the…

Maraid Portrait by Michael Driver

Posted September 11, 2020 by Jane

We first became aware of Michael Driver‘s work for Culture Trip, beautiful illustration for travel – what’s not to love? When Michael became a stallholder at the 2019 Glasgow Print Fair it was great to…

Glasgow Print Fair from home

Posted June 28, 2020 by Jane

Glasgow Print Fair from home is open! We asked a selection of artists across Europe to create new prints based on the theme of nature for this year’s event. We were overwhelmed by its success…

Books about collections

Posted March 4, 2020 by Jane

Happy World Book Day! Since publishing Matchbloc I’ve noticed how much I enjoy a book about collections. Specifically, similar items repeated with slight differences. I’ve posted a view of my favourites below, each book features…

Postage stamps from the Netherlands

Posted February 12, 2020 by Jane

I promised myself not to fall too far down the rabbit hole of stamp collecting as I really have enough small pieces of lovely illustrated paper in my life with matchbox labels – but I…

Maraid Christmas portrait by Ben Javens

Posted December 17, 2019 by Jane

For our brief to Ben Javens Richard asked to be climbing a tree. He seemed surprised but happy when the finished version was a Christmas tree. We love our 2019 Christmas illustration – Thanks Ben!…

Our favourite songs of 2019

Posted December 16, 2019 by Richard

At Maraid Design we pretend to like contemporary music because it makes us appear cool. To continue the illusion we have chosen some random tracks and are claiming they are our favourite songs of the…