the odd little world and blog of a jon creighton-griffiths

photoshop swatch pallete art for facebook

2012-01-05T15:47:00.003Z

so it's been a while since i made a photoshop swatch pallete piece, so i made this as something to go at the top of my facebook timeline, i'll add the .aco file and clearer files when i get home this evening

swatch pallette art on googe image results

2012-01-04T17:15:00.000Z

I love google analytics, after ages of nothing i found that a fair proportion of search traffic comes in via this old post. And if you search for "roy lichtenstein whaam" it comes up as the 21st results. sweet huh?

saying T.Hanks this christmas

2012-01-04T16:29:00.000Z

RIGHT so, every year I forget to do these to thank various epic relatives for the lovely shit they gave me. It skips my mind or I'm lazy and suddenly its august and I've never done them. SO this year is gunna be different. The bomber and I even came up with these little beauties.

Christmas T.Hanks ..... hahahahahahahahaha..... well it made me laugh anyway

N.B. this is in no way endorsed by T.Hanks esq. Although I am going to be contacting his agents about endorsement so we can see if we can sell a few next year.

moustache or no moustache, hmmmmm

2011-11-29T12:22:00.000Z

a little time passing digital doodle,
i actually prefer it with the moustache i added when i got bored

more work doodles

2011-11-15T16:12:00.000Z

working on a pitch, getting involved with roller derby and general life manicness has meant i ve done very little but today i did this and so to celebrate i m putting it here

hello manila

2011-10-05T11:14:00.000+01:00

howdy to the lovely phillipinians
hope your having a nice day.

hope the rest of you are too.

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a new piccer wot i drew

2011-10-05T11:02:00.002+01:00

new doodle

2011-09-20T16:34:00.002+01:00

just a doodly doodle

so much news

2011-08-30T17:35:00.002+01:00

new job, new flat, newly moved into with girlfriend
so much news and news about the news soons
in the meantime
doodles

happy birthday to my little sister

2011-08-02T08:14:00.002+01:00

2011-07-08T13:34:00.001+01:00

mailto:sickpuppe@hotmail.com

2011-06-28T12:51:00.001+01:00

doodles doodles doodles

2011-06-27T10:46:00.000+01:00

more inky drawings and digital inking experiments. the first for 26 and the brawlery types, the second just becuase i think sugar skulls look awesome

howdy to the person from delaware

2011-06-16T17:16:00.003+01:00

i love google analytics. And hello and thank you to my visitor from Newark in Delaware
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yet more scribblings

2011-06-16T17:09:00.002+01:00

blahgblahblah

another daggy bit of illustration

2011-06-15T12:27:00.000+01:00

some more doodling for you guys

some new drawing

2011-06-10T10:59:00.000+01:00

some more ink and inking practice

thats a bit better

2011-05-31T17:24:00.000+01:00

the position of the left eye mouth and end of nose were bugging me

more ink and photoshop facial lessons

2011-05-31T14:26:00.000+01:00

still trying to work out how to draw faces like they appear in my head,
two more experiments been and done.

still spotting obvious flaws with my drawings but hey at least if i mspotting them i can start to redeem them.
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drawing, not particularly good drawing but drawing none the less

2011-05-23T20:46:00.000+01:00

so it d had been a while since i drew and i wanted to get better with my brush pen so here from waiting times, early morning coffee breaks and other shit is some doodly stuff, for 26 who asked to see it
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still one of the most beautiful bits of advertising i ve ever seen

2011-05-23T09:16:00.002+01:00

so can you just give some of your red stuff already?

Site is back up woop woop

2011-05-19T06:59:00.002+01:00

site is back up and ready for some updating
have a butchers

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portfolio site is down

2011-05-13T18:04:00.002+01:00

hey all just a quick shout that due to some shitty hosting by http://www.web-mania.com my portfolio site is down and operations to exricate data and get it back up in the mean time are underway. In the mean time please email joncreightongriffiths@hotmail.co.uk to get in touch

latest frankie update, just text left to do

2011-05-11T18:00:00.000+01:00

nother morning before work updating the last few little bits of frankie, just the text left to do now

some more frankee inking trials

2011-05-06T14:44:00.000+01:00

some more progress, want to try and stay away from the greens

further dev of the frankie vinyl part 2

2011-04-26T21:27:00.000+01:00

in amongst the quiet today i finally sat down and inked all the bits with a brush that i could
that ended up something like this

then because the day was over and no one was going to the pub i added some digital ink, got wholly distracted and three hours later ended up with a quick blast as a colour trial

shes no where near done but i m happy with the raw ink at least. woop woop progress

further dev of the frankie vinyl

2011-04-21T14:25:00.000+01:00

i wanted to do a nice ww2 stle graphic for frnakie, my new old mgb, and because she is such a monster of different parts this seemed entirely appropriate.
I ve been playing with a few poses and stuff but this test for the head is getting to the kinda place I want to be.
but yeah its been a while since i posted and thought i should show something.
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ruthless seo self promotion, coming top of google images results when you type in work + doodles

2011-04-04T17:44:00.000+01:00

well for about a minute at least at last view i was down to number three, ah the fickle world of internet seo. so to blitz my rating and make a desperate reality star esque last gasp bid for interest i m writing a blog post to blast me back up.

Quick illy for a mates blog

2011-03-28T14:36:00.000+01:00

i mades a blog header for my friend dan, his blog is here

Illustration for a tshirt for SAS with will for Will & Tom studio used in pipeline

2011-02-25T14:02:00.000Z

look its will and mine's purty illustration, looke looke, glad surfers against sewage liked it

look what arrived

2011-01-31T11:12:00.000Z

look what arrived, html 5 tshirt, from america
awesomeness incarnate

some prospective tshirt designs for charity

2011-01-09T20:27:00.000Z

so did these, wait to see if any get chosen from our lot.

some doodles from my hand

2010-12-14T09:24:00.000Z

in between the odds and sodds i m doing i thought i d just wack out some doodles for you to see

swatch palette art gallery 50's pin up

2010-11-02T00:55:00.002Z

evening all, I, on my day off have made another swatch palette art gallery piece to hang in your photoshop, specially for mr s greenwood and leake who requested it.

it s available for download here

also included in today's post is a clearer swatch file so that if you want to make you own swatch palette piece you don't have to spend 20 minutes deleting all your current swatches. (yep it only took me three pieces to work out that might be a good idea)

the clearer file is available here.

same as usual use replace instaid of load and drag your palette to the right number of swatches

toodleoo

swatch palette art gallery pop art double bill, Warhol's soup

2010-10-15T19:40:00.000+01:00

pop art double bill here's Warhol's soup, available here

all rights to the warhol meister still i m just pasticheing
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swatch pallete art gallery, Roy Lichtenstein's Whaam

2010-10-15T16:44:00.000+01:00

another piece to hang in your swatch palette, it's a wide one so maybe more for those with duel monitor set ups
.aco file available from here (for those using safari ctrl or right click to download the linked file)

once again copyrights belong to the lichtenstein estate.

gunna make a smaller portrait one next for those with only one monitor to play with. also will make a blog to dump these all in, if you fancy getting involved or want a comission let me know.
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my latest creative nonsense, I present the photoshop swatch art gallery

2010-10-13T21:26:00.001+01:00

want to bring a bit of class to your photoshop workspace, want coworkers to thing you're a bit of something classier than what you actually are? Then i give to you my friends the photoshop swatches art gallery. Miniature masterpieces reformatted to fit into your swatches palette so you can hang your favourite artwork on your screen to look at all day whilst retouching, scamping, designing or merely pretending to work.

download the .aco file here, load it into your photoshop swatch pallete using replace, and then drag your palette to the correct width, et voila, swatch buckling awesomeness if i do say so myself.

more coming soon and open to comissions
and yes that blue pixel is supposed to be there (for those who know me too well its C100 M0 Y0 K4, that should explain it)

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p.s obviously all rights still belong to photoshop with regards to my use of their name

portrait videos on vimeo

2010-09-27T15:22:00.000+01:00

i saw this portrait video on awesome solitaire
embedded from vimeo and portrait to make a really good screen visualization,
intrigued i made a test and by the looks of it you can pretty much create any aspect ratio of video for vimeo, which is nice to know.
heres my test,

testy testicles from joncg on Vimeo.

hackday 3: The hack fights back or the difficult birth of HoleRunner

2010-09-20T08:14:00.002+01:00

This weekend held the third hack day and what will most likely be the last one in the house of mister kufluk. Worked out with Kenneth Kufluk,and Andrew Mason, the concept sounded simple on the surface of it. We wanted to create an online multiplayer game that had a mechanic dependent on the number of players. It would need to be made in SVGs and in HTML so that in firefox it could be played with extra plug-ins.
How hard can that be I hear you cry, actually If you're keeping up with the talk of html 5 and svg s you ll be one of the few.

So anyway in the pub the night before andy and I cracked the idea of a demolition derby style version of a micro machines style game where you have a surface and each team is struggling to push vehicles from the other team off into space for points. This was promptly sold into Kenneth the next morning at his house. Things we d forgotten but added awesomeness were added and HoleRunner was born.

Over the next 8 hours I got to happily play with vector drawing, which I love, so was in a happy world of my own, while Kenneth and Andy battled against box2d and node to make things happen. I'll leave the explanations of exactly what went on there to them but it seemed hard. Radians and advanced trig and moments and torque forces had to all be worked out, leaving me exceedingly happy I was the pixel monkey on this one.

SO after 8 hours of struggle and trial and tribulations it became clear we were fighting a losing battle. And thus like any mighty army in need of a regroup we went to the pub. We decided to call it a night at about 2 am.
The next morning Andy and kenneth went about coding the mechanics from first principle rather than continue to try to bang their heads against the desk (fair call I say).
SO long story short HoleRunner is still coming soon, we have based mechanics and base graphics and base internet fuynctionality but this one is going to take more time.
However this is kind of what it will look like, (click to make it full screen)

hopefully I'll be posting more about this soon
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ftwinnebago

2010-09-20T07:48:00.000+01:00

yet another quick brain fart to keep me entertained. came up with the idea of the ftwinnebago in a brainstorm for a different project and liked it so much that i figured i d make it, now I've started a blog based on it. It is here to satisfy my desire to make bad puns. hopefully like a punsink my work should now be a little freer of such nonsense
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a to z of dead celebs, g is for gainsbourg

2010-08-29T18:01:00.000+01:00

g is for gainsbourg,
7 down 19 to go
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f is for fawcett, a to z of dead celebs number 6

2010-08-26T09:39:00.003+01:00

f is for fawcett
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the A to Z of dead celebs, E is for Wyatt Earp

2010-08-25T18:03:00.000+01:00

e is for wyatt earp
5 down 21 to go,
hopefully f will be done tomorrow
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moretrackslikethis.com continues to spread, now found on feber.se

2010-08-02T13:50:00.001+01:00

moretrackslikethis.com continues it's roll to world domination as we've now been featured on the cool swedish blog feber.se I'm still trying to get a translation to find out whether they re actually saying nasty swedish things about us, but still woop woop more coverage.

also the coolness goes on it was written about by this guy willie wilhemsson (what an awesome name)
so thank you willie for writing about us. Grinning like a loon again now.

RUFTPBIG - random universal fluctuations that people believe is god

2010-07-31T14:50:00.001+01:00

I hate the fact when i swear i say god a lot, idont believe in a single god, i m not a christian, I'm agnostic, i find the fact that out of habit i use the word god actually quite embarassing and annoying, so i invented this
Ruftpbig a bit of a mouth full but once you ve got it its very satisfying
give it a whirl
also interested to see how far it ll spread as it still stumps google and gets no results
say it loud say it proud RUFTPBIG
isnt that better

image borrowed from here all rights to them

twitter praise for http://moretrackslikethis.com

2010-07-30T22:41:00.001+01:00

look at all the praises we're getting. spotify tweeted about us and over 4000 site views later across 70 countries its still going. SO get involved http://moretrackslikethis.com
and check out the twitter search for yourselves
full write up coming soon

spotify have tweeted about http://moretackslikethis.com

2010-07-26T11:31:00.000+01:00

check it out spotify tweeted about our hack day project woop woop

a to z of dead celebs progress so far A,B,C,D

2010-07-25T20:01:00.000+01:00

4 down, 22 to go

Hack Day 2: return of the hack: More tracks like this .com spotify recommendation engine

2010-07-25T13:35:00.002+01:00

So in the last 24 hours and 24 minutes the feverishly deranged imaginations of one Kenneth Kufluk, one Andrew Mason and myself, created a new engine of terrifyingly awesome proportions. A spotify recommendation engine based upon an individual track rather than spotify's dodgy artist based system (which is all that is out there right now for spotify).

HERE IT IS Y"ALLL

a full blog post will follow, bit too tired right now.

Oh yeah it also contains thousands of simple HTML5 tutorials (incredibly innacurate description)

a to z of dead celebs : D is for Dean

2010-07-14T08:44:00.000+01:00

d is for dean, 23 to go

a to z of dead celebs ; c is for john candy

2010-07-11T11:42:00.000+01:00

24 to go
i love john candy but every time i got busted by a girlfriend's parents i thought of this moment

NEW PROJECT ALERT: a to z of dead of celebs

2010-07-08T09:07:00.000+01:00

so with the demise or hiatus of the end of the world blog, I needed a new project to keep me out of trouble and to keep my vector drawing skills in check.
SO i'm drawing an a to z of dead celebs, not sure what the output of this list will be but here is the test frame and also the first letter completed b for belushi (also as it's my list of dead celebs i get to choose celebrities i give a damn about and not neccessarily the most famous - on that note watch this space possible spin off projects coming soon)

time for some vector drawing

2010-06-08T08:39:00.000+01:00

so it's been fucking ages since i did any vector drawing. also i've never felt comfortable recreating faces, i find it hard and i find it unrewarding and most frustratingly i never get them to look like the people i m recreating. so, because i find it al those things i m going to force myself to do it some and see if i can improve myself
. Can you see who it is?

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something of mine goes live

2010-05-17T11:14:00.000+01:00

lookee lookee my 360 icon is on the vauxhall site.
small win but still makes me happy

putting things live

2010-05-11T09:08:00.000+01:00

experiments

2010-05-05T08:56:00.000+01:00

i drew on a polaroid years ago, always like the way it looks surreal drawing over real world shots. my mam took this picture of a blue bell woods and it just felt right. I know lots of other people have done other things and some very similar, so before you decry plagiarism, I'm not claiming this is my invention, that would be ridiculous, i still like doing it tho, after all these years

the departure of the mase, my technical concepting team mate

2010-04-26T08:26:00.000+01:00

So the mason has departed for pastures fresh and green, thus the chances of coming up with wonderous tech ideas and bending his ear about every stupid idea I have is gone (well until the usual time spent in the white horse). Also the chance of being mased is significantly decreased (again until time spent in the white horse).

I think there should be space in this industry (especially digital) for a new type of creative team. The tech and the creative (I don't agreee with those terms as discussed further down, but they get the idea across for now). One with a more technical knowledge but creative in outlook and use of technologies and executions as well as big ideas and the other with a more generalised knowledge of technology but a more visual eye and approach to problems. I think this is why I enjoyed concepting and proofing stuf with the mase. I'd come up with left field ideas, he'd suggest a better use of that idea and then we'd try it out. That's the same reason I enjoy doing the hack days with dhrubo and kenneth, working with them and their expertise makes me a better art director/creative/designer, and gives me a deeper knowledge of our medium.

I'm still horrified by how much more designers and art directors could learn about digital. If this was print, we would understand paper weights, established grid systems, typography and all sorts of craft knowledge to make us the best creatives/designers, but in digital do many creatives know the difference between HTML and ruby on rails? API details? The list of stuff I guess is endless, but I don't understand why more of us aren't striving to find out and learn about this medium we are concepting/designing for. It makes us better in our field and makes our ideas sharper and better suited to our medium, without having some poor long suffering coder having to redo our work. (and then worse we come over and art direct and complain when all our drop shadows and layer effects are misisng- ok not in html 5 but you get the point).

Ok so that ended up as a bit of a rant, but fuck it, it's my blog
anyway adios mase, i'll see you in the horse

N.B. I don't agree with the tech and the creative terminology, as anyone down the pub who has had their ear bent on this subject can testify, there is so much wrong with the idea that only a visual designer or art director or copy writer is creative. I'm not going to rant about it here as it's a sunny day and life is to short. grab me in a pub and buy me a pint and I'll lay it all out for you

testing embedding with specific start point

2010-04-19T10:40:00.004+01:00

more tron related fun stuff from flynn lives

2010-03-31T12:09:00.000+01:00

fun stuff from flynn lives came as part of the online search for kevin flynn, as part of the tron launch propaganda.

my encom i d badge complete with qr code that takes you to the intranet of encom complete with email and everything.

all the easter eggy fun

woooooooop

beta squnkey

2010-03-30T13:21:00.000+01:00

after years of making other people's paper art toys i finally made my own.
so here is the squnkey
you get it one of many fun flavours C M Y K or blank
or get your laughing gear round the raw files and hack it up how you want
raw ai or blank ai
so heres the beta version for people to play with
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holy code

2010-03-25T14:09:00.000Z

after some tech friends tried to explain the difference between ruby and php to me (they were good and kept their despairing looks to a minimum) they told me about a type of code language that is written in haikus. check it out here. So chuck and i were laughing about the resourcing of a project and how the only coders hired were a pair of french nuns and a dog.
this got me thinking...
Holy code, everything must be in psalm form, with plenty of eths and holy writ. also things must start with alpha and end with omega. also everything must comprise of three parts.
if only i knew how to create coding languages and it d be amazing.

sorry random brain fart there
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a playlist for an absent friend

2010-03-23T16:33:00.000Z

you know who you are
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scribbler2

2010-03-12T18:17:00.000Z

click to make it large
if youve got 3d specs that makes it even more wweirdly

check out scribblertoo

dan showed me this earlier and it s fucking incredible i love it.
its like the easiest and most bizarre drawing tool ive ever used.
it makes everything look awesome.
get involved and have a play y'all
it also has full save and over drawing fun to play with
do it now
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save 6 music

2010-03-04T08:47:00.000Z

so i n my sleep addled state this morning i had an idea. It was an idea to save 6 music. you d have to be blind, deaf and have no internet connection not to have heard about the proposed closure of 6 music.

So whilst trying to drag my corpse from bed i had an idea. If i had the money i'd by six music outright from the BBC. Granted i don't have the money but for those who do, now is the time.
Have you ever seen a radio station with so much publicity? The bbc never gave 6 music this much oush but at the moment the name of 6 music is everywhere. Famous twitter feeds (like phill jupitus), to mainstream news, social media and more. If that hasn't boosted listening figures, I don't know what could.

The second benefit for this would be the PR for which ever rich lucky bugger could afford to buy 6 music. They would be seen as the saviour of independent music, the protector of what the bbc should be saving. Whether this be for one-upmanship, taxable deductions, or simply instead of their advertising budget on other projects, they should do it.

So come on Sir Richard Branson, give it a go.

anyway
just an idea but had to chip in my two pennys worth

get your voice

live stream from multiple source experiment

2010-02-17T17:24:00.004Z

just to explain I came up with an awesome idea earlier about using multiple mobile streams, this is just a first phase test, and the reason that both boxes are dead is that neither of the phones are live streaming at this second. hopefully you ll see an output here soon
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my week of mouspaths

2010-02-16T18:15:00.002Z

i'm going to keep recording these everyday and see what i can do with them. click here for the big animated one. generated by mousepath.jar by anatoly zenkov
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Verbatim monster

2010-01-27T10:29:00.002Z

how cool is this. the most boring subject and one of the most fun sites of the year

check it out

new illustration for beebzteez

2010-01-24T11:26:00.002Z

new mailer illustration for beebzteez to go out promoting their donkies tshirt
same deal as the last two.

oh and for those like me who didn't get the reference a donkey is a crap poker player that other more experienced players take to the cleaners (can you see the reference coming) or eat for breakfast.

location alarm / iM DRUNK AND WANT TO GET HOME

2010-01-24T10:56:00.007Z

FLASH DEMO CLICK HERE CLICK HERE CLICK HERE FOR THE LOVE OF SOMEONE ELSE"S GOD CLICK HERE

so i ve debated putting this up for a long time, because before i was worried about someone making my idea and making their fortune, now i m just worried about this never being made.

This idea came to me after talking to my flat mate after he fell asleep on the bus and missed his stop for about the forth time in as many weeks. The concept is that your set this app/web page running on your smartphone (works best on non iphones as they allow background processing) you set a location on a google maps like map and when you get within a pre programmed distance of that place (be it your house, nearest pub, kebab shop, bus stop or whatever) your phone sets of an alarm. simple concept and there are other apps that do similar things, but at last check and on project commencement none designed for your London drunk taking a bus home.

the app is in alpha stage and the design was knocked up to explain the concept. cash made me the lovely flash test and the partner in crime mason thought up the actual technical workings.

if i can mobilize 2 grand it ll get made but chance is a fine thing.
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pixel masters

2010-01-24T10:49:00.007Z

Following a conversation with rakesh the other day about the concept of a pixel in the real world (hopefully new work on that theme coming soon) i remembered that i d done a couple of investigations into classic masters paintings and trying to reduce them to the fewest number of pixels possible whilst maintaining their iconic look and leaving them recognisable.

one day when i have some money i d like to frame them all at their relevant size and have set them all on one wall with an indesign links pallete with all the links brokens as an inside joke that no sane person would get or care about.

last fm output / spotify mash-up

2010-01-24T10:36:00.004Z

heres the skin i made to be used by digitas london to put on their website using andy's technology (website concept went off in a different direction) which in is andy's own words;

"Version: 0.2 (alpha)
Author: Andrew Mason
Introduction

This jQuery plug-in uses Last.fm and lastfm-api-ext.appspot.com to retrieve a user’s music history and display it on a webpage or blog.
Features

* Pull real-time data from last.fm
* Fully customisable via CSS
* Open artist, album or track in Spotify via the music note link
* Show Recent tracks, top artists/albums/tracks

Coming soon

* Build and customise your own
* Embed in your own webpage/blog
* iGoogle & netvibes widget"

check it out here

pantytone generator screens

2010-01-24T10:22:00.003Z

based on a pantone book from HGV that will my flatmate got when the studio relocated to Thailand. I wanted to archive the book on the internet as it was a beautiful piece of design history that computer technology has almost made redundant. However chatting to my partner in crime Andy he showed me how you could automate server processes to recreate the same steps automatically, meaning that people could actually create a page of separations with their own image, making a more desirable tool, that is actually useful and not just an archive.

The idea is that you when you come to the page, you:
pick your colour (which live changes the colour of the entire sites text and buttons)
upload your image
then output a page of the seperations that use the uploaded image: monotone in the colour you picked with the colour in 10% tint increments & duotone with black increasing in 10% tint increments. (see the image 2 for better explanation)
the user can then capture the entire page or choose a new colour.

well thats the idea anyway. I ve now finished the design of the two pages in snatched mornings before work and in the hours on the weekend i have spare. Andy has created a proof of concept located here. hopefully soon we'll get the time to hook the whole thing up. watch this space.

pantytone generator project progress

2010-01-05T19:44:00.003Z

a first look screenshot of the project i ve been working on for too long to digitize and improve a pantone book from the 80's designs are done and the first page is sliced with pngs in the relevant place so that the chosen colour will change bits of the page automatically. still so much to do and so much help needed from the mason to pull in the server stuff but progress at least my friends
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my desk

2009-12-16T11:24:00.003Z

this is a diagram of my desk. i did this for my mam
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another blast from the past

2009-12-13T09:49:00.003Z

found this in a pile of my old books at my parent's house. written by the amazing tony robinson and illustrated by paul cemmick it s a comic version of the tv show maid marian and her merry men that i remember being the only live action kid thing as a kid i really liked that wasn't of film quality. also had danny john jules in it who rocks. also i adore the pooh mick take frame
another gem that probably made me who i am today.
i think this will either have come from my mam or aunty sharon who worked at the beeb at that point so thank you hugely to them
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beta site tester thingee

2009-12-12T18:09:00.002Z

i ve made quite a lot of progress on this and wanted to get some progress started. i ve only populated it with a couple of projects but here at least is the start. woop woop

here it is the Bad Company comic that started it all for me

2009-12-07T21:13:00.004Z

I ve been wanting to do this for ages and here it is:
the small version (15mb)
the medium version (39.7mb)
the larger version (125mb) (this is still only 150 dpi)

"All rights are still very much reserved by 2000AD and it s publishers and by the amazing team of Brett Ewins, Jim McCarthy, Pete Milligan and Tom Frame.

I was given this comic about 15 years ago by a cousin of my mam’s. It is point dot I feel in the graphic world I have come to love. I drew pictures and things before this but this was the point that set the fuse burning in my head. I appreciate it’s not in anyone else’s view the best comic of all time but for me it is. I’ve looked at it a thousand times and always found something new I love.

Probably because of this it’s falling apart. It’s yellowed and stained, loved and abused. This is why I felt I had to archive it and put it in this for anyone to see. Not to take money from it’s intellectual owner’s but because it’s means so much to me I want to share it with anyone and everyone.

So that’s it, my little love that is a very battered copy of the best of 2000AD from March 1994.
I hope you enjoy it one thousandth as much as I do"

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coming soon to a blog near you.

2009-12-04T09:21:00.002Z

this is the first of many things that i ve been meaning to do forever and my life has got in the way. but coming soon the whole bad company ii that inspired me so much and i ve been carrying around loving since i was given it by a cousin of my mam in about 95

evil brain sucking octopus/squid hat concept

2009-12-03T18:36:00.002Z

i drew this and after dodling squid head boy for years i know find that some people are already making amazing squid hats like this lady
so i ve carried on with mine just because that ladies whilst awesome are not evil brain sucking octopus/squid.
now i just have to work out how to make the fucking thing.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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dhrubo using my drawings to shock children

2009-12-03T16:36:00.003Z

when others use perfectly innocent drawings for evil. Dhrubo thought it would be a good idea to post this on a page seen by all age ranges.
all the fun
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playing in prezi

2009-12-02T11:58:00.005Z

just been playing in prezi for work and made a little test. The site is well easy to use so get your heiny down there and check it out. basic use is free

flavors.me

2009-12-02T09:06:00.002Z

check this sheet out. saw this on hrrthrr's blog and it looks fancy and lovely and a way to build a site that does involve me returning to a prehensile state and sobbing in a corner whilst my computer gloats. sign up and get an invite and get to play with the beta version it looks good check out their user gallery for the best bits. here's mine

girly glasses for beebz

2009-11-19T13:43:00.002Z

really proud of this. stupid i know just haven't drawn anything properly in a while
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phyotos

2009-11-19T13:38:00.005Z

found these hidden away on the roof of the building when looking for website bgs really like them. also i still think the final one of lucas would make an awesome website background
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apperaing on other peoples sites and a sneeky peek at stuff for beebzteez

2009-11-18T08:17:00.004Z

so i got a drawing on someone else's site which is super cool even if it is someone i know personally. check mike a. out as he's rather good
also heres a sneeky peak at some drawing i ve been doing for beebzteez which will be coming soon from the lovely land of amsterdam. Brian still has most things under construction but when it comes it will be amazing. so here are two drawings i ve done for him which are still works in progress.

updated cv and website coming soon

2009-11-11T17:37:00.001Z

having a weeks holiday and using some time to update my stuff, so soon coming are new bits to my website, cv and portfolio as well as this and my end of the world blog.
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stuff coming soon

2009-10-29T08:51:00.000Z

got contacted by an old friend, some fun collab coming soon
woop woop mr bibi
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end of the world

2009-10-27T08:20:00.003Z

started a new blog so i could force myself to draw and vent a bit more

it is here

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anti student feeling in falmouth

2009-10-14T08:08:00.003+01:00

so we all knew these feelings were there when we were in falmouth despite the students keeping the town alive when the tourists aren t around, with our loans. but now small mindedness takes falmouth to the forefront of the national attention, as

"Cornish 'terrorists' declare war on students"

the only thing i would say is that at least the graffiti done by the art students is attractive to look at. so all in all a big day for probably one small minded cornish guy. awesome
Photo: David Brenchley

robert llewelyn sighting

2009-10-06T14:21:00.003+01:00

just got an autograph from robert llewelyn as he was standing having a break in the saatchi building courtyard. immense. he was really nice and signed paper for me. literally felt like a 12 yr old kid.
what an awesome day
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trippy cartoon network fun times

2009-10-06T09:09:00.003+01:00

i love cartoon netowrk
i love this

all copyrights to [Pete Browngardt] and Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute

Confessions of a tshirt

2009-10-04T14:59:00.002+01:00

confessions of a tshirt

the product of 30 hours, four muppets, 8 or 9 jugs of coffee, the whole explanation of the new wave of metal on xfm last night.

we wanted to see how much we could hack together and design in a weekend, and so in thirty hours we created a site where you can buy one of 6 tshirt sonline and have it delivered to you. plus all the boring stuff like concept code and api data and shit.
so here it is. it s not done but it s released early and hopefully released often.
check us out on flickr, facebook, twitter.

now i really need to sleep
adios
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autumn and winter are here yayayayayayayayay

2009-09-30T16:09:00.002+01:00

and to celebrate heres a gem from the london snow day earlier this year (not cos i m only just getting round to posting it at all)
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halloween photoshop

2009-09-30T10:45:00.008+01:00

cash and high tower (or Rakesh Chadee and Ahmed Abokor esqs) did some lovely versions of us for our Halloween party completely unbeknown to us. here are their results
i think my favourite is still ian as a smurf, totally unhalloweeny but so apt.
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p.s. check out rakesh and ahmed

Ford 021C by Marc Newson

2009-09-29T09:07:00.002+01:00

I saw this at the design museum a few years ago and love it, i think its the most awesome and actually liveable concept car i ve ever seen, truly a car i would actually buy, so many awesome features like the drawer style boot and the suicide doors in the rear.
via designyearbook

le cochon danseur

2009-09-29T08:58:00.000+01:00

i love the french, check out the last 20 seconds awesomely disturbing anamatronics
via boing boing

just when i hope my lust for crap couldnt get any stronger i see these

2009-09-29T08:17:00.001+01:00

via time

getting all the credit

2009-09-28T14:36:00.002+01:00

so what started as a one off typo has now become a fairly regular occurrence. the famous Swiss assisted suicide clinic Dignitas and the online advertising company Digitas. Here is an offering from indymedia who also need to check their spelling.
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custom graphic tablet pen

2009-09-23T08:52:00.004+01:00

so for ages i've had a broken and unhappy looking graphic tablet pen in my posession. using a fairly fancy one all day every day at work i felt i wanted something a bit more interesting and comfortable than the standard. so here fresh from the shaven yeti R&D labs is the graphic marker. ok so its only the first working prototype but it proves the idea is sound and its really comfortable and everything.

just in postscript all rights still belong to pentel yadda yadda
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tubbypaws wonderous papertoy of the marvelous keyboard cat

2009-09-14T17:51:00.001+01:00

check out here to get the video and the plans for this marvelous toy
so much fun fun
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