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Behance.net
July 4th 2009
I was informed earlier this morning that I made the front page of behance.net which if you don’t know already, is an online portfolio site frequented by some of the very best designers in the world. The piece chosen was my work on feminism, selected for it’s new thinking. It’s an honor I appreciate very much as this particular project took a vast amount of my effort and consideration and is quite possibly my favourite project to date.
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Updates
May 3rd 2009
They are coming, honestly. I have lots of projects that will all finish in a couple of week so expect a posting flurry sometime soon.
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Updating
April 2nd 2009
Today I will be updating the layout of the blog a little, more evoloution than revoloution. If however, things look a little messed up, bare with me and it should all be up and running at some point today.
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Tea!
January 15th 2009
As a huge amount of you will know and possibly have experienced, us Brits love tea. It is a wonderful substance which for centuries we have fought wars over, done many a morally questionable thing and in the end, generally been quite obsessed with.
I realised just how much of a British thing tea and the way we treat tea is, when I spent the last year living in America. I realise that some of you, poor misguided fools that you are, bless you, believe that America has tea. America, in no way, shape or form has tea. The hot water with floating leaves in a bag that you serve is a travesty of naivety and tastes more foul than I could ever have imagined the sweet nectar that is tea to have tasted. I went to great lengths to find real, good, heart warming tea, the good stuff in short and eventually realised my only option was specially imported loose tea, mixed to my specific blend ideas. This of course, is a huge amount of hassle for an englishman who just wants a good cup of tea!
Tea, as my now extremely informed and quite wonderful long term (and sadly at the moment, long distance) misses once remarked, is like a loving hug in a mug. It raises the spirits more than coffee ever could and wraps itself around the heart as if it was the amber of life itself. And as I close this post, mug in hand I hope that you all find the joy of tea, it has become a small obsession of mine, I feel I become more and more of a traditional English gent by the day, something that perhaps is actually a positive thing.
Go! Drink Tea! And be merry!
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The Collector
January 12th 2009
Part of being a designer it seems, is having a little bit of a kleptomania just dying to burst out. In some sort of an effort to contain and categorise my obsession with trawling ffffound.com and many other design sites I’ve started using iPhoto. By combining iPhoto with my mobile me account I can automatically upload and update my digital scrapbook to the web which I’m willing to share with you guys as there’s no point keeping it private. check it out at my digital Scrap Book, I’ll be updating fairly regularly as I find new stuff.
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The Fixer
December 27th 2008
This post originally was going to be something so stereotypical I can’t believe I even considered it. A debate, between windows and osx. I can’t however be bothered with this, let it be sufficient to simply say, I have battled XP for the last few days, although I won, it took so much effort I wish I hadn’t started in the first place.
Instead, I’m going to talk about the way I think. I’m not entirely sure which way round my mind approached the particular behaviour it has now. But, in essence, it is a giant puzzle solver. I see things as either problems, or solutions. Something either requires that I fix it, or can be used to fix something else and from this, I often wander, is this why I’m a design. Or, more interestingly, do I see things this way because I design. Design, is after all, simply a search to find the best fitting solution to the problem a client supplies.
Either way, that is the way I work. It is the holidays and I think that’s quite enough for now, beer, good food and good company await. I hope you are all as fortunate.
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V-moda Arrives and Good Times
December 10th 2008
My replacement v-moda’s arrived today, which is nice because my others just stopped working completely this morning.
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V-moda and the Replacement Headphones
December 6th 2008
Having complained previously about my broken V-moda’s earphones, one thing I can say about the company, is that their customer service is very good. They agreed (for a second time) to send me a new pair of headphones and were even happy to let me keep the old ones so that I won’t have to pay for the shipping fee’s to them. Within a day the replacement pair shipped and their currently on their way across the pond. I just hope that they last a little longer than the last few pairs.
I’d also like to let the spammers of my comments box know that there’s no way their junk will get through the filter without my knowledge, so stop it because it’s extremely irritating and waists my time.
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Scott Pargett says:
December 9th 2008
I went through the exact same things. I’m on my second replacement pair. I’ve noticed alot of re-design on the models along the way.
Excellent customer service.