Designed and built this holding page for A.G. Barr (of Irn-Bru infamy), through Blonde, last week. Will be forging ahead with the rest of the site this week, so will probably just replace this post when I get it finished, but this is a taster for now. Enter to win a holiday if you fancy it.

I done this last year for mN’s increasingly popular Mixa product, but forgot about it until I was reminded by some chap on the QBN forums asking what font it was. Suzie Webb done the initial designs and I finished it off. Getting the ‘x’ and the ‘a’ to work within the concept of the logo, but remain legible, was a bit of a sticking point and came through a few sets of hands before I completed this final version.

Found these a few months ago, liked the idea and said to myself I’d have a bash at trying to make one if I could think of a scene that would work well for the idea. This scene from There will be blood works well for it I reckon, both as a long panning dolly shot and in that it tells a little story by itself. Might do more if I can think of any other nice scenes to use, reckon they’d make great posters.

Created this logo sting for Diesel a few weeks ago. They wanted to keep it as simple as possible, so just went for a simple radar idea, relating to Diesel-U-Music being about reaching out and finding new and unsigned bands.

I done a variety of them in different colours and shorter one with one ‘bing’, but I like this red one best.

I’ve been working on this entry for the Diesel Wall contest for the past few weeks, on and off, and finally had to tell myself “it’s finished!” and submitted it last night. The idea being that it will look like a hole blown through Urbis. I might keep working into it, add more little people, more detail and carnage, but I’m pretty happy with it for now and reckon it could look great up there on the Urbis wall. But looking at previous and current winners from other walls, there  doesn’t seem to be much photography chosen, illustration seems to be king. Fingers crossed though!

Thanks to gorgeous gobshite Hayley Jane Warnes for being my monster, Anna Priadka for the make-up and John, Chris, Mei, Shiddly and Sylvia for being my terrified extras.

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I was initially a little unsure about moving my Mac Pro, monitor and desk through to the living room, but it’s making itself quite at home and blending into the surroundings nicely! (Please ignore the obligatory Saturday night Heineken can in shot!)

Love put the second phase of DM Boot Design  live this week. I helped Jono wrap up some loose ends on a few layouts last week. It’s looking good, with new features, two boots to work with this time and new & improved tools in MattTemple’s™ Flash boot artwork creation dealy.

Oh yeah, and of course, Vote for my boot! 

Got myself an early bird ticket for Flash on the beach, in Brighton this September. Missed the past two years and made a monumental, passport related fuck-up trying to go to FITC Amsterdam. So looking forward to this, should be good. We just need a summer between now and then, and all’s well!

Warburton’s National Bread Week site is now live. I worked on the pitch and concepts with Mr Darren Hughes at LOVE, followed by myself, Darren, Adam and Anna seeing it through to completion. With fine art direction from Mr Hughes, handfuls of ActionScript mojo from Mr Palmer and design coverage, photography and bits & bobs of Flash animation from myself. Not to mention all the backend jiggery pokery and seemless HTML/GoogleMaps integration from Jono and Mark.

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I went out for a wander with my new Canon HV30 and Letus Mini 35mm DOF adapter on Saturday, but a bunch of problems (a brutal hangover, backfocusing with the Letus, forgetting to switch it on and general focusing difficulties on the small LCD of the HV30) led me to give up for the day, come home, set up the HV30 (sans-adapter, but with a ND8 graduated neutral density filter) on my balcony, set it running and kick back with some chocolate soya milk.

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