A mixture of reasons has meant the development of my site has ground to a halt, and being a designer with an under construction page is slightly (highly) embarrassing. For the meantime then, this will serve as the front-end of the site. With this in mind, and if you’re visiting to download my CV, please visit the link on the right or right-click and save as on the button below.
It’s nice when you get to flex your creative muscles in a job which might not require a great deal of creativity. The firm I work for is soon to get into the iPhone case game and I, as well as some colleagues have had the chance to design some. Hopefully the project will be a huge success and we’ll be commissioned to design some more! Here are the cases I designed:
Mixtape iPhone Case
Comic Book iPhone Case
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
2009 has truly been a rollercoaster ride for me and it feels odd that it’ll soon be over (only for a new ride to begin, no doubt). The year started with the threat of redundancy, which was soon rendered a reality when in March I lost my job. Some six weeks later, I’d be starting a new job with Mobstar Media which would give me my first taste of working in a studio. Things have more or less turned out alright, and losing my job earlier in the year really gave me a kick I needed to reboot my career.
Whilst I’ve had some great support from family and chums, there are a few guys I’m indebted to, namely: Aron for his unparalleled HTML/CSS assistance and for being an awesome sounding-board, Huw for giving me career advice throughout the year, Jon for giving me the job at Mobstar (and saving me from further dole-queue perils!), Simon for all kinds of worldly/design advice and keeping me working and Lisa – it’s been a pretty tense year for us both and she’s been super supportive through it all. Also, cheers Sam and Nick at BPWEB – these guys very graciously provide my web hosting.
Also, thanks Mum!
I’m fortunate enough to be able to listen to music whilst I work at my current job but this freedom comes at a price; I’ve listened to the music on my MP3 player so much that I get bored and don’t want to listen to any of it. Spotify has been a blessing in this respect, giving access to a wealth of material I don’t have in my possession though despite this, I can still be left lacking in inspiration. A friend Aron recently suggested we try out the collaborative playlist feature and ever since then we’ve been construction our own inter-office playlists, no more than an hour long and loosely held together by a theme we take turns to pick. With his blessing, I’d like to share some on the site, as I’m certainly quite pleased with the outcome of them.
One playlist in particular was Red Beret, Yellow Beret, suggested by Aron – a Jacques Cousteau inspired theme.
I was sent this video by my friend Paul, and will certainly make me more cautious about using the GPS feature on my phone in future. The video also seems to have been shot in my neck of the woods of Brighton, which is nice. I’ll add that to the list of features which already includes the masterpiece that is Wimbledon.
