LairdCake

LairdCake YouTube thumbnail for a tutorial video in which Orkney artist Martin Laird shows his logo design process using Krita and Inkscape on Linux. Image is a pink background with red, blue and white LairdCake logos all over it. Martin Laird is in the centre wearing a beret and chewing on a green logo he has eaten. Text in a rounded font says "How to design a logo that's good enough to eat!"
LairdCake: How to design a logo that’s good enough to eat!

LairdCake: How to design a logo that’s good enough to eat!

I have started a new YouTube channel called LairdCake, where I will be publishing videos about my creative process. My goal is to encourage creative freedom and artistic self expression (using both digital and traditional media). With all the free and open source tools available to everybody these days, the only limit to what you can create is your own imagination.

If this sounds like something you are interested in, please do subscribe to the new channel. You can also join my newsletter to be informed about when new LairdCake episodes are coming out, as well as other projects, releases and special offers. I promise not to spam you – in fact I will probably struggle for time to write the newsletter at all (although I promise to try.)

My existing YouTube channel will be kept for other miscellaneous art projects and as a place to collect together the films I have made with other people and organisations. See the playlist “Films by Martin Laird“.

The first episode of LairdCake is called “How to design a logo that’s good enough to eat!“. It will premiere on YouTube at 8pm GMT on Thursday 27th of March 2025.

More episodes are planned. I recently held a collage exhibition at Northlight gallery and I have more collages in the works. I plan to run through the process of making one of these collages on film in the near future. You can see an example of one of the collages I have available to buy as a giclee print below:

Grovel Peasant, or Abolish the Monarchy. Collage of King Charles Sausage Fingers Windsor made from vintage 1935 jubilee and 1953 souvenir memorabilia. His angry face is made from red velvet and ermine, and he is passing through a series of gilt frames. The background is a monochrome hell-scape of symbols of Imperial power such as British troops parading, carriages, orbs and sceptres.

Grovel Peasant, or Abolish the Monarchy A2 giclée print

£100.00

Grovel Peasant, or Abolish the Monarchy.

Fine Art (Giclée) print.

A2 size (420 x 594mm), supplied unframed.

Professionally printed on Hahnemühle William Turner 190gsm acid-free age-resistant fine art paper.