sunny winters day

hola
awesome sunny winters day today
also lots of work to be done which kicks arse.
and to make it even better i got to learn some flash coding yesterday, so as soon as i get the computer up and running get to start work on a new flash version of the ol websitey
that is all
adios

New live Vauxhall sitey

Hey so the new vauxhall site has officially gone live and if you look very closely you might even see a couple of gifs that i had a hand in. woop woop


hopefully more posts soon
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Repent for it is Blue day

the bluest of all days it is

employed

no fucking way i hear you cry, who d employ that scruffy arsehole, we ll it s finally happened a nice load of people called digitas in north london have given me a job. so hopefully once the wages start coming in ill be able to update everything the way i should have done it all the long
adios

Graduated, now i'm officialy unemployed

yay i m officailay a graphic designer. I got my fake degree roll thing and wore the gown. Now the prepice opens up before me and it s time to get a job
yay.
also everyone leaving is somewhat shit
more soon
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barebeque season

with not so much to do these days barebeque season has begun with earnest.
also we learnt that granny martin can cook. this does beg the question if he can cookwhy has been living off pasta pizza and chips for the last three years?. check out the photos
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hand in and beyond

A week ago today was the dreaded hand in day. That's why posts have been few and far between recently. But now that is all done. Viva yesterday with nikki and brian and now am pushing onwards with stuff that needs to be updated. so here is website v.1.1 not a full remake but some altering all over.
check it out

up on formfiftyfive

thanks to some kinchin feedback enquiries we ended upon a design blog
here it is

the invite crew on form fifty five.com

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back from seeing the RSA

so back from the big smoke and going to see lovely design people insaid of the old lady with the corgis. spoke to some immense people and got some really good feedback on the freshly redesigned portfolio. so what started with bowel renching terror ended with a more laid back approach to talking about my work. also with some beer with everyone afterwards in a nice pub. even more also was the fact the second pub we all made it to served brains SA gold (a previously undiscovered luxury but a luxury none the less. A nice mention on a design blog and a true cockney cabbey to take us home. truly a top day.. Today was a long trip home but it's good to be back. so thanks to dan for the awesome place to crash ( the pic of the river is the view from his balcony, to all the people who talked to me at the RSA, the tutors, and the friends for making it an immense trip.
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ONLINE

its finally up online,
with all music, all singing site, and no sleep for me its all there.
check out the rules of thumb major site
http://www.joncreightongriffiths.co.uk/shibang/rules%20of%20thumb/index.html

so unbelievably happy
right now to get the portfolio together
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videos done

sunday evening and the videos for my major are all done save some tweaking with compressors for one of the animations.
fianlly
watch this space for the actual videos
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the badger reviews

www.thebadgerreviews.com
so you ve got to check this out.
just check it out and laugh and find some good wine
adieu

final push

Uni starts again tomorrow (not that easter has really been a huge break one way or another).
The final push to the end begins. 7 weeks to keep it together.
biggest issue right now is finding music to go with all ten animations. Ideas on this subject greatly appreciated.
no really....any suggestions?
thats it just an update, no long winded blog today
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2 in the morning and the typefaces are all done

After a week of long hard pushing ive finally got all my typefaces onto my website with supporting material and enough blurb so they make sense. yes i ve been awake in the wee hours a lot but check out the results.

am now going to pass out
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Faltown slide comp

good weekend spent hung over and not working. However on sunday we went to the faltown slide comp out on an industrial estate to the west of falmouth. Despite the crappy weather and freezing air temp it was a good laugh and have some good pictures to show for it as well. Also on returning homewards to defrost watched the "art of going sideways" with p to show her the sliding fun. check out http://www.faltownskateboards.com/ to get your knowledge on

Most importantly we went tho in the hail to invent a new sport. SO behold the amazingness that is bonnet sledging. Take one 1970's mgb bonnet. turn it upside down. point down the hill and get a good push off your mates. We did it on wet tarmac and it went well. with wet grass or snow it would be the best sledge ever.
waiting on snow
adieu

flickr account

finally got my flickr account set up this morning.
check out mine phyotos (say it out loud you knows it makes sense)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joncreightongriffiths/
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back from the big smoke

this weekend past myself and two of the girly mates headed up nodnol wards to have some graphic type fun. Headed up on the friday and came back on sunday for a rip roaring cavalcade of museums and geekyness. Such sites as the design museum, V&A, a pub on oxford circus, and most of the classic printing district around St. Brides and fleet street were visited. The main purpose of the trip was for a typographic walking tour. Truly the geekyest of all the london tours but a good laugh none the less. Also in a epic show of self control, i managed to avoid buying any art toys, comic books of overpriced design books.
Also seen were;

a band of where's wallies on the tube.
a fiat conquecento bearing pizzas.
what lyns and holly look like at 6 in the morning.
the end of my thumb nearly being removed.
the busiest lunchtime in the V&A ever.
3 films on the new walkman.
a crazy light composer in the designer of the year show, that kept chris and i entertained for a good half an hour.
hester and her feller.
the aforementioned chris.
portobello market.
new yog fruit digestives, not as nice as they look.
lots of stickers.
pints of brains in london of all places.
tube queues.
wren towers.
3 paul smith bunnies.
lots of type.

i might stop there the list could go on a while

getting my shit together

As the third year is over two thirds through and am busy getting my stuff together to put onto my website. One of the steps is to create a blog for quick uploading of work I'm working on without huge website overhauls. Now just fingers crossed it actually works