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Coombs Moylett Site Launch

After launching John-Gardner.com version 3, I was approached by Lisa Moylett of Coombs Moylett Literary Agency to design and build a site. The company had nothing in place at the time, and no branding, so I was very fortunate to be given the opportunity to have a good run at it.

The brief was to establish an online presence for Coombs Moylett, and provide a showcase for new authors being represented by the agency and a platform for a new service – The Fiction Editors.

The intention was to create a streamlined site with a more modern look and feel than its contemporaries, and I think that with the client’s help and support that this has been achieved. Take a look for yourself – www.coombsmoylett.com

Soul Estate / Fresh Delivery artwork

It’s been a heckuva long time since I’ve posted any new work! Here are some new pieces – I say new, the first one is, the other two are from before Christmas – created for my old chum Mr Dirty Hairy from the Soul Estate.

This was put together very quickly this weekend for Fresh Delivery, a night that may re-occur in future. In which case, there’s room for development of the idea of having a new 50s character with every poster.

An idea for a new logo for the Soul Estate. The colours here are from another project I’m currently working on, I liked the combination enough to use it again. It may get re-purposed in the near future…

I’ve been quite inspired by the work by ISO50 aka Scott Hansen, and this was my attempt at trying something along those lines. It’s nowhere near as accomplished, but I guess that’s what practice is all about.

John-Gardner.com – Version 3 launch.

This evening I had the great pleasure of flicking the giant on-switch for Version 3.0 of John-Gardner.com, the website of crime and thriller writer John Gardner. It’s taken about 4 months to develop and should allow for new features and greater fan-interaction, thanks to the CMS platform Drupal on which it is built. I’ll be updating my portfolio soon with the full details but in the meantime, I’d just like to say thanks to Aron Carroll and Sam @ BPWEB for their web skills. Also, thanks Simon for letting me be part of this project. Cheers dudes!

As it probably fairly obvious from the post title, you can visit the site at www.john-gardner.com.

John-Gardner.com v3 Home

John-Gardner.com v3 - Updates Page

John-Gardner.com v3 - Bond Gallery

Mothers Day.

You’ve gotta love mums and should appreciate that they put up a lot, so I quickly knocked this up as my tribute to mothers everywhere. Feel free to display proudly when yours comes round for Sunday dinner. Right click and select “Save Target” or “Save Link As…”.

Smothering Sunday

It’s All Happening at the Zoo.

Ah a new year and with it, new playlists. Aron and I have created many of them, yet only a few have come to light. Maybe I’ll post a few more in future. The theme for this one was simple: Zoos! I really enjoyed this one for the following reasons:

The easier the theme is, the easier it is to find songs to go into the playlist. Keep it simple, stupid!
These playlists are a great way for me to discover great music I might not have listened to, this one was no different.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did, I definitely reckon this was one of the better ones. It’s All Happening At The Zoo

It's All Happening at the Zoo

Simon & Garfunkel – At The Zoo
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Anne Elephant
Mew – The Zookeeper’s Boy
The Phantom Band – Crocodile
YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO – Lions, Then The Donkeys
Cass McCombs – Cuckoo
The Whitest Boy Alive – Golden Cage
Caribou – Pelican Narrows
Ratatat – Wildcat
Subtle – A Tale Of Apes 2
Le Loup – Planes Like Vultures
Dosh – Wolves
Console – Dolphin Dos
Au – Are Animals
Animal Collective – Lion In A Coma

Coombs Moylett Site Launch

Soul Estate / Fresh Delivery artwork

John-Gardner.com – Version 3 launch.

Mothers Day.

It’s All Happening at the Zoo.

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