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Friday, August 25, 2006

Summer Links

August flew by with the same speed as July, and sitting here on the Friday before Bank Holiday, sneeze and its going to be Sept and Oct. Been noting down more links that poked me in that special way. See what you think. First off, my mate Shaun has uploaded his site online with a tiny bit of help. ManMadeMad presents Shaun's art and graphic design, please visit the site and email him with any comments... oh, and he aint as scarey as the image on the front page suggests.

Playing with your head for a mo, the best visual illusion I've seen in a while here - grey squares. Actually, this was picked up as I start hammering out final year project ideas and I've found several links that jumped out at me. Someone more intelligent than me has created visual images from the structure of songs - seen here at Shape of Song. Anyone into typography, and I guess we all are in a way, Thinking with Type is a great resource to dip into. Another visually stunning Chemical Brothers video 'let forever be' is linked here, awesome stuff. Fun site here about creativity on the back of business cards - gapingvoid. In fact, here's a list of graphic design related links I find useful on a daily and hourly basis... might be of use to someone with even a passing interest:
Found some very cool flash projects online, The Exquisite Corpse project is a range of ideas and great source of inspiration. Of course, 2advanced still blows me away linked here is a new release, v5 'The Attractor'. Great photography at bsimple, I was inspired by this in the digital illustration (PhotoShop 1) seen here in my portfolio.

Street art is something that has always appealed to me, the politics are sharp and the voices raw and determined. Here's a great list of sites to see what I mean.
My understanding of CSS is coming along well. Found helpful links here at PingMag, especially the 5steps to CSS heaven. Lovely illustrated site here at Malajube well worth bookmarking - the music they have on the site is awesome, I'm waiting for availbility on Amazon.co.uk (currently .com only). On the same tip, my step-cousin James Crabb, who recently got married, congrats again, has his band the Jim Muir Slideshow on myspace. Well worth checking out.

Finally, more survey and graphic work completed for surveylab, with the obi wan of online surveys Dan Wardle. Fullscope relaunched the Treliddon Farm website after the horrific first draft stayed online for far too long. Fullscope's Portfolio is being updated as and when work is completed, check it out. Last major update concerned the images I put together for a gaming message board website - see examples here. If anyone in the Plymouth area, or much further afield requires any graphic services (web design, deisgn for print, branding etc), please get in touch. Enjoy the links... till next time. Hew.

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Wednesday, August 02, 2006

July - blink and you would've missed it

Blimey, July flew by and a quick blog is long overdue.

Finished the foundation degree officially at the beginning of the month. The Summer Show at PCAD poked me somewhat and helped give me ideas about my next steps. After intending to finish the 2-year course and look for employment/freelance/more Surveylab work, I saw the 3rd year work at the Show by my peers and realised that for about 6 more months of college, I could 'top-up' my qualification to a full degree. I was thinking that this would further justify my decision to go back to college. Yes its another year (well 6months), mostly part-time so I can continue to work outside, and at the end perhaps I will be more marketable. Another side benefit is the briefs, client work and network opportunities through the college. Means another year of being skint, but in the long run I think it will pay for itself.

So, what have I been up to.

Well, slowly getting fitter, squeezing in the odd night out (few and far between these days :( ), stag do in Isle of Wight and saving for a couple of weekends away end of August and of course next year.
Next on my plate? Well, several things bubbling along. Surveylab reports pages needs input with 'The Master' Wardle, more client bits from Surveylab, the Treliddon Farm website needs relaunching and Fullscope portfolio section needs work. I need to start thinking about major project work for college in September, t-shirt designs with Spreadshirt and make sure I snag any paid work thats floating around. Busy busy.

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