Soggy June -Show and Stuff

Another delayed blog post, so apologies to regular visitors to Fullscope (!). The past month, in fact from the beginning of May, has seen me very busy on three fronts – Surveylab, freelance and college. College has now finished and the last 3 weeks have been taken up with completing my web accessibility project and preparing for the graduate show at the Royal William Yard in Plymouth. Setting the scene at the Royal William Yard...I was pleased with the project overall, although as is often the case with work that you’ve been ‘living and breathing’ for any amount of time, I can see a number of things I would change and improve. That said, the deadline was met, I managed to produce the website I had in mind and present associated marketing visuals.
Similar to last year’s Icon project, iSense now features on the Portfolio pages of Fullscope. The demonstration website is also live, www.isense.org.ok, though please note that the large animation files will take a while to download as the site was designed primarily for presentation on a standalone machine. A further ‘health warning’ is that Firefox has issues with AVI files so please view in IE, Safari or Firefox for mac.
The show went well I think. It was the first time the degree student presented together and on a site away from college. The Royal William Yard was a nice looking venue, affordable (we have since found out), but perhaps proved too far away from the city centre for both casual visitors and students without transport. That said, some great work was on show but I think a number of displays suffered from a lack of background/introduction text.

I’m on a list to show at New Designers, a graduate show at the Business Centre in Angel, London. Not entirely convinced that my work is completely suitable but if I do get involved it will not doubt be a great opportunity. IF anyone in London would like to come along, public dates are 12th-15th July, 11am-6ish.
Surveylab has been busy although recent weeks have seen Dan slacken off on passing work to me to help me clear college commitments. We have work on the go, and Dan’s been hectic on client reporting, and a number of internal projects are looking to be started properly when my contract with Surveylab escalates at the beginning of July. The Surveylab website is long overdue a complete overhaul and we are starting to develop a more serious and coherent online marketing campaign. Watch this space.
Fullscope, helped by project work required by college, is going to develop both in terms of presentation and scope of work. On the radar is a Surveylab website overhaul, testing and launching of integrated content management applications with new site designs and looking to incorporate ASP further in development. So the focus remains on web design in the short term, but I will still be welcoming all forms of work for variety and personal development. I haven’t done enough 3D and Flash work recently, I hope to use both on Fullscope’s new site and perhaps start hunting out more work in these areas. Finchfield IT (aka Mr Ricky Slim) has been busy and is generating interest in new websites for his clients. Currently there are two sites to be launched shortly, Ashwood Interiors and Bedford Hire will be live asap. Again, watch this space. Hands4Healthcare had a promotional DVD shot my a friend in London, I've since uploaded this to their site.
A new PC is also just around the corner. My mac doesn’t cut it these days but will happily remain as a testing machine and somewhere to spend money on pesky iTunes. The old workhorse PC will drop down to slave and a spot of gaming, whilst a more custom system is purchased to take on work applications (CS3, drool) and project stuff. Bootcamp for mac is in beta which allows dual boot of mac and PC operating systems which could mean that a new mac would be the best of both world. However the mac platform I’d then be after would be significantly more £££ than a PC I think.
Random links are limited this month. If you have any interest in vector illustrations, a good tutorials is here at Layers Magazine. For t-shirt lovers (Fullscope's own shop will expand shortly), I would recommend having a look around this Fench site - La Fraise. Thats all for now. Will no doubt be a post after the New Designers Show.
PS I'm on Facebook these days, feel free to have gander yourself.