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February 22nd, 2009

Not much to report this week Im afraid, just been super buy with work, I’ll be popping some of the work on here shortly when it’s all live and ready for public consumption.

I’ve been to see a couple of flicks in the last week, firstly Notorious which I really enjoyed for the music and as an insight in to the east side / west side division, I think the film was a bit sugar coated though and maybe strayed away from the full story a little, but all in all I enjoyed it…

The next film was Slumdog millionaire which I thought was amazing, really liked the way the story was told, being a fan of Skins it was good to see Anwar on the big screen!

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Finally got the wedding save the dates out, you wouldnt beleive how much works involved with getting hold of everyones address!!

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I’ve been doing an online Bouquet store for one of my clients recently so I thought I’d place an order for my ladys Valentines present, they looked amazing and it’s the same people who are doing our wedding flowers, I can’t spek highly enough of Kerry at Tineke, she does some amazing work, ill post the online shop up here as soon as we launch…

Speaking of weddings the suits are sorted and the guys have done an amazing job sorting the stag week in Ibiza- you can’t get much better than that, they really have done a cracking job for which i’m very thankfull for.

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I got myself a new toy as well this week so it’s out with the old Samsung phone (possibly the worst mobile i’ve had!!) for a new Blackberry bold which so far is amazing from what i’ve seen. I’ve not really got alot more to report at present but now ive got the Blackberry hooked up hopefully I can get some more blog posts sorted..

Just Jacks new album

February 13th, 2009

I was lucky enough to see this man at The Rescue Rooms in Nottingham before his came across as a decent bloke, the best track that night was “goth in the disco” which he’d just been playing at his live gigs, he’s just released a video about the new album which you can watch below (out in April), Goth in the disco will be on the album as well- result! Loving the gags in this as well…

Embers should be the first track to be released, its made it’s way on to Pete Tongs show and I’ve heard Zane Lowe play it so it shouldn’t be too long until its out there, belows a little preview from Pete Tongs show….

And just for good measure with it being the weekend shortly I thought I’d chuck a classic track in to the mix….

I better finish my work now….

Don’t eat snow whatever the colour

February 10th, 2009

blogging live!

Evening, I’m blogging tonight from the warmth of my kitchen whilst watching the Brazil & Italy match, Robinho came up with his usual magic, if only Stag’s could afford him…

let it snow

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I’m sure everyones bored of the snow by now, I love the stuff! I’ve been hearing news reports of people moaning all week how they can’t get to work etc, I’d be over the moon if I’d got a day off to go and play on the park!! I had to settle to a few lunch time outings with the dogs who love it as much as me. I had to cancel a trip to Scotland and Durham because of it and a lack of dog sitter but hopefully we’ll get up there in the next month or so.

accounts

My accounts had needed doing so I took Thursday afternoon to get them in line, very boring and Ive still got a month or so to do to catch up, I don’t really get much time to do them with all the design work, but business is business and all that shirt and tie wearing jazz

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Ive started to get to grips with my camera, theres so many functions and settings to get used to it’s going to take a while but hopefully I’ll get there one day, you might even get a nice picture or two on here at some stage….

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It’s still a while off but me and Hayley couldn’t resist when doing the “big shop”!!

bookage

These bad boys arrived on Monday morning, I was made aware of them by a guy who I was doing some work for previously who was looking in to setting up a cafe/bar, the Rockport books just contain loads of nice logos, print design work and promotional items which will be good for inspiration and to show clients, they’ve come in handy once already. Heres the three I picked up:

1,000 Type Treatments

Letterhead and Logo design 9

1,000 Restaurant, Bar, and Cafe Graphics

I’d recommend these to any graphic designer, they’re great to show clients to get an idea of what they want.

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That wasn’t the only delivery this week, I got our wedding “save the dates” today, thanks to the guys at Ripe Digital who printed them up they look amazing.

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Thats all for now…..

Da Vinci Consultancy Logo Design

February 5th, 2009

I’ve been working on some concepts for an Italian based client this week. Below are the initial concepts I fired over. The good thing with this is that I get to do all the branding, stationery and web site, of course I’ll post those up when they arrive….

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Hope you like!

Porkshire Yudding

February 1st, 2009

“Picographical” run down of the back end of my week….

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I managed to grab a copy of I Am Legend on Blu-Ray, I’d seen the film orginally on boxing day two years ago when it came out. I watched the alternative version to see the ending, again in HD it’s impressive, the footage of New York is amazing, as for the ending I didn’t think it made the film better or worse, it was cool seeing a different ending though.

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The biggest mistake I’ve made this week is to start playing on Football Manager on the PSP, this will take over my life now for the next two weeks, I get hooked on this every year!

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The new Grand Designs was on the other night, this is one of my favourite programmes on TV, having renovated a couple of houses my self I’d love to do something on the scale of these one day, Ill need a few more penny’s before that can happen though!

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Jamie, Kaci and Rio popped around on Saturday afternoon /night for wii/guitar hero/ps3/food goodness!

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On sunday Jodie invited us for some food after our wedding flower viewing at Lakeside, Kerry from Tineke’s made a fantastic job of the flowers from what we’ve seen so far, they will look fab on the big day when it comes!

Its now around 5 hours since we had the dinner and Im still stuffed- delicious! Me and Dexter had our routine male bonding session where he ripped my hands to shreds, gotta love the big man!

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I’m about to get prepared for the next Lost and Ross Kemp in Afghanistan , going by this blog you would think all I do is look at the box!