Just back from a few days in Siria, Arad and Timisoara in Romania, Eastern Europe. It was a brilliant time catching up with some friends and meeting some new people.

I have worked on a documentary about a charity working out there with street children and the poor. It will relesased in November and I will be posting more photos on the blog and Flickr account when I get some time.

Well I’ve been in hiding for the past 3 weeks or more…

I have been working really hard on my first full feature StopMotion animation. It is for a music video for Doug Walker.

The animation tells the timeless story of a girl and a boy in love. The song is brilliant, you’ll have to wait to hear it…

It has been amazing fun doing it and working with Doug. What a talented guy.

The animation was produced from hundreds of drawings, hundreds of shapes cut from paper and lots and lots of time. It was a great project to work on and the full video will be released in the near future. I’ll keep you informed.

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David Airey has asked me to contribute some designs and content for his new book ‘Logo Design Love- a guide to creating iconic brand identites’. I can’t wait for it to come out, I have a huge amount of respect for this designer and love how he uses the internet as a tool to showcase his work, but also to be a voice in the design community. I would say he is an expert in identity design. It is brilliant to be included in such a great list of contributors. You can read some great articles in David’s blog, Logo Design Love and can preorder the book on Amazon.

I have been featured in the ‘100 Brands of Interest‘ for this year. Check out the list. Some brilliant designers logos there.

So the most clicked stuff on my blog and my website are the tattoo illustrations, particularly this one: First Tattoo Designs

I get heaps of emails asking can I do a letter ‘G’, or ‘S’ or whatever you initial is. So in January 2010 (only 3 months away) I will be launching

a complete A-Z of this custom tattoo script. You will be able to request the letter you want and pay a small price through Paypal.

Please drop a few comments if you think you would be interested and I’ll email you the details in due course.

Respect.

Sigh of relief. I’m back to the blog! I’ve been away from the blog for a month to the day, so here’s my excuse. I have had the most crazy month of my working life! In between setting up a company, setting up a studio and tidying my new pencilcase… I have been busy designing- flat out.

In the past 3 weeks I have finished the full branding for frut smoothies, done the graphics for an awareness film for hope for justice, done some custom screenprints and album artwork for ‘Starling’ and am now working on a music video for Doug Walker.

So, all that to say… the blog is lacking a bit of attention. For a start, it all turned blue for a while! Not good! So I will be working to get the content and look spot on.

Stay tuned.. and to find out what I had for breakfast,  Follow me on Twitter too.

So today I thought I would reveal my favourite logo… for anyone who is interested in that kind of thing!

Here it is: The brand of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The brand is ‘recognised internationally as a world authority in art and design.’ It is also my favourite Museum in the world!! So far…

I have been doing a lot of branding work recently for clients. Today is my last day of the 9-5 workday… in my life, ever. I am moving on from my current role as a graphic designer/motion graphics designer

in a company to setting up my own! I will be setting up freelance for a while with a lot of different exciting projects on the line! Including setting up a design collective, working on some music videos,

motion graphics for a few events and having some of my logo designs featured in a book.

Good Times ahead.

Now then! I’ve been real busy recently, working on some branding projects for print as well as some digital stuff. Really getting kicks from design for print.  What a joy. I have been researching and gathering some great print examples for inspiration. So here are a few examples of some fantastic packaging solutions. If design is about solving problems and coming up with clever solutions… these are all over it- with some vibrant colours and classy typography thrown in! Packaging with a punch.

So John Berger in ‘Ways of Seeing’ says “We are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves…” I think he was opening up the debate on our responses to images, what we feel and think when we see an image.

But this guy, Gregoire Alexandre, a 27-year-old French photographer seems to also understand the interaction with things and people inside the images he creates. He shoots some beautiful images, full of life. His subjects interacting with objects around them, all in a space that has been crafted to make a stunning image. He creates some truly amazing props and sets.

Check out his work here: http://www.gregoirealexandre.com

For now, here are a few examples: