Almon

Welcome to Almonia
The Land of Almon!

I'm Bedwyr ab Iestyn and, I'm also Almon.

I'm a graphic designer with a wide experienced in designing for print and for screen.

Since January 2019 I've worked on a number of freelance projects for clients including Sain, Wales Books Council, Cambria Books. The images and projects on this website are a small part of work completed during the past twenty years.

Contact by e-mail :
almon@almonia.co.uk

More background information – professional and personal projects…

Designer for a music recording, producing and publishing company.
Responsible for creating, developing and co-ordinating the visual identity of all the elements of Sain including designing covers and booklets for CD, DVD and CD-Rom for artists in a wide range of genres; catalogues, adverts, pamphlets, posters and marketing banners of all shapes and sizes.

Graphic designer for broadcast and television facilities company.
Designed title sequences and graphic elements for television programmes, including: Clwb Garddio, Cymru 2000, Sgorio, Hel Straeon, Cyw Haul, Eisteddfodau Yr Urdd and Llangollen, Cân i Gymru, Cnapan, Home Ground, Wildtracks.

Designer for printing and publishing company.

A number of companies and events including –
Neuadd Goffa Chwilog, Admiral House, Deintyddfa Penlan, Silin, Wales Eye, Gŵyl Gerdd Dant 2016, Gŵyl Gerdd Newydd Bangor, Pwllheli 650, Beca, Cwmni Cyhoeddi Gwynn, A-Pedwar, Canolfan Gerdd Williams Mathias, Cwmni Da, Tafarn yr Albert, Menter Aman Tawe, Gŵyl Gerdd Dant 1988.

Rily Publications Ltd – 2022-2021
Transferred paper books into digital epub and epdf files

Gwasg y Bwthyn – 2022-2021
Transferred paper books into digital epub files

Wales Books Council – 2021-2018
Transferred paper books into digital epub and mobi files

Gwasg Carreg Gwalch – 2021
Cofiwch Olchi Dwylo, cover for a short story collection by Geraint Lewis

Atebol – 2021
Gwag y Nos, design and typesetting for a children’s novel by Sioned Wyn Roberts

Gwasg Carreg Gwalch – 2020
#helynt, cover design for a young adult novel by Rebecca Roberts –
Winner of children and young people category Book of the Year 2021 (Literature Wales)
Winner of Tir na n-Og Prize 2021

Gwasg Tâf – 2010-1998
Prepared Welsh language artwork for numerous textbooks translated from English, some designed from scratch

Gwasg Carreg Gwalch – 2009
Sonedau p'nawn Sul, cover and all inner page design of a volume of sonnets by poet Iwan Llwyd

Gwasg Gomer Press – 2007
Dictionary of the Place-names of Wales, cover and all inner page design

Cwmni Cyhoeddi Gwynn – 2001
new identity design for all their book covers

Gwasg Carreg Gwalch – 1998
Pen Draw'r Tir, drawings for a volume of poems by Myrddin ap Dafydd

Gwasg Carreg Gwalch – 1997
Holl stwff Geraint Løvgreen, cover design and inner page illustrations

Y Ddraig Goch – 2013-2004
Plaid Cymru, new identity and format designed, responsible for 40 issues

Uned Gelf | The Art Unit – 1994-1992
identity and format designed, responsible for first 3 issues

Cromen – 2021-2010
E-books and printed books in Welsh or concerned with Wales including: Enoc Huws, A Poet's Pilgrimage, In Pursuit of Spring, Gweledigaethau'r Bardd Cwsg. These are mostly text which have come out of copyright but Teulu Bach Nantoer is an exception as it was developed in tandem with a television programme on S4C by producers Unigryw, 2013. Set up a website to sell e-books throughout the world and succeeded in getting them on various platforms such as Amazon Kindle, iTunes, Kobo as well as on other websites such as gwales.com

Almon – 2021-1994
Livres d'artistes, hand-printed and bound books, more art-pieces than books of text these combine drawings and prints, some titles; Tachwedd 1994, 1995, Glan-y-Môr, Antonne-et-Trigonant, Boulogne, Parot, Het wellt

Misoedd Eifion Wyn – 2018
Sharing the poems day-by-day throughout the year on Twitter @cromenol

Siwgr Candi – 2017
Image from my sugar paper collection every day on Instagram @siwgrcandi

Head of Beethoven – 2021
Built a large head of Beethoven to be suspended at Galeri, Caernarfon, during the Wales International Piano Festival 2021

Setting art exhibitions – 2019–1991

Adeiladu tŷ gwydr gan ddefnyddio hen ffenestri – 2017

Silff Storis – 2015
Built screens and props for a creative project aimed at children who were in hospital or who were handicapped

Barn – 2012
Wrote an article about developing e-books and the publishing venture Cromen

Sardin blin – 2012
Built a skiff

Breuddwyd – 2007
Composed and wrote a cân actol, short music/drama production for Ysgol Cymerau pupils

Gwylan Wedi'i Dal – 2000
Designed, built and staged the set for Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yr Urdd Llŷn ac Eifionydd's musical