I was putting together a mood board for a potential client with a retro, prodominently 50’s american feel to it – and I thought I’d share some of the material I found.
Some of this you’ll no doubt have seen elsewhere. Hopefully some of it is new.
Unfortunately I didn’t keep a note of where I found some of it but I’m sure you’ll be able to trace it back if you’re interested.
February 8th, 2010
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February 2nd, 2010
What a dude!
Now he wears tighties, sh*t flickers, and a massively oversized t-shirt.
How is that a good look?!
And, more importantly, they weren’t a patch live on what they were 6 years ago
#disillusionedglassjawfan
January 31st, 2010
I’m doing a website for a client at the moment which involved an awful lot of photography. I often work between a mac and a pc. Don’t get me wrong I’m a mac boy through and through but I haven’t been able to save enough of my pennies for one at home yet.
The client in question has a mac and was sending over jpegs. I started the design on a mac and there were no problems. I then went to do some coding at home one evening and had to edit some of the images and most of them wouldn’t open….weird.
So I did a google search. I found a few people who had the same problem. There were various suggestions on what had caused the problem but not really any ways of fixing it at the pc end without going back to the mac and resaving them, which wasn’t really an option as I couldn’t ask the client to save off 50+ images again, and I knew I could open them on a mac if I had to.
After trying various things, I managed to get them to open by saving them from my emails as a different file name with a .jpeg extension instead of .jpg
Interestingly, it didn’t work just changing the name and extension once I had saved it out of my emails.
Thought I would share as I spent a good hour trying to sort it :]
Will make a long overdue update to the portfolio soon!
November 4th, 2009
I’ve been working on a poster for To Catch a Thief’s show with The Fall of Troy over the last couple of days and I wanted to share it in a bit more detail than my portfolio allows me to just now.
The image depicts the fall of a heavenly city over earth, but amongst the chaos, God looks after the young girl in the image.
October 30th, 2009
There are so many things I’ve learnt over the last few years which, when I figure them out for myself, I wish someone had shown me ages ago. As with everything in life, there are some things you have to figure out for yourself, but I thought I’d put together a series of blog’s sharing a few bits and pieces that I use every day and I thought other people might be glad of.
Hosting
I’ve tried countless hosts over the last few years. I’d always known about media temple but I’d been slightly put off by the intital set up cost for my own work. The more sites that H&A were hosting, the more I could see the value in investing in their Grid Service Package. Once I’d experienced their awesome control panel and their super quick call centre service, I decided to use them for my personal projects. It sounds like I’m writing a press release for them but I can’t recommend them enough. They offer a ‘lite’ version of their GS-Package which you can find here.
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September 17th, 2009
Should probably rethink that. I’ve come across 3 really interesting strategies for putting out a record in the last week which go beyond what would be considered a normal release.
First up is the release of Twin Atlantic’s mini album Vivarium and specifically, the way it’s been packaged. It has to be one of the most uniquely packaged records ever produced. Completely impractical (one of those cases you can’t shut), but I don’t think that matters anymore. Hardly anyone carries their CD’s with them anymore, and if they do, it’s in a CD carry case. The packaging is just gonna sit on a shelf as part of a collection.
Most people will get the record home, stick the CD in their computer, rip it, and stick it on the shelf to gain dust.
September 8th, 2009
When I started my adventure into the treacherous world of digital design, I was coaxed in by macromedia flash. Tragically, I don’t have a copy of my first project in flash. It was a university project based upon Flash Gordon, which played quotes from the movie when you clicked on links.
‘Flash, I love you!
But we only have 14 hours to save the Earth!’
Classic.
From then (2003) until I got my first industry position (2006), I developed pretty much all of my sites in flash. Over the last three years, I’ve grown increasingly impatient with flash websites. I find them laggy, irritating to use, and difficult to access the information you visited the site for.
There are exceptions to the rule of course.
Checkland Kindleysides have one of the nicest websites I’ve ever visited, flash or otherwise.
August 30th, 2009
First post and it’s gonna be music related. Mainly cause I’m out on tour just now and surrounded by it 24/7. A subject that’s come up a few times in the van and in my own mind while we’ve been out here is the value of a physical product.
Everyone knows it’s in decline, and we as a band could be accused of endorsing that decline by choosing not to press our new record. We were staying at our drummer’s parents house after a show in Cardiff and I noticed some CD’s lying around and decided to take a look through them. The first 36 Crazyfists album was one of them and the price was still on it. £15.99! When was the last time you paid more that £15 for a record? Admittedly 4 or 5 years ago music was grossly overpriced but it meant that us as consumers put more of a value on our music.
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