T-Shirts & Wine Gums

15.10.13 — Leeds

I join you after another busy day of work and play! To clear up any confusion – this is today’s post, the one I posted earlier was yesterday’s belated post. Anyway, I’ve been busily continuing my work for Blaze using the icons I created yesterday – and I’ve just wrapped up the designs for the Blaze Festival Crew’s t-shirts!

Apart from this work, we all sat down as a flat and watched the genius that is Sacha Baron Cohen in “Brüno” – a film which continues to render me happily speechless with it’s daring stunts and total disregard for traditional preconceptions of what is socially acceptable. I’m on a bit of a film marathon at the moment, first “V For Vendetta” and now “Brüno”. I promise I’ve been doing some work amongst all this – I’ve been set the challenge of reading a Spanish novel by my fab Spanish professor, Ricardo! It’ll be a challenge but it should be fun.

So this evening I’m sitting down to redesign the look of my uni room and shift all my LED lighting around once more. Here’s a pic of my room which I took after the first week:

But now I feel as though I’ve read so much Spanish, eaten so much toast and done so much Illustrator work today that I deserve another packet of wine gums and a brew. One day I’ll get round to going to the library and chewing through some more of my reading list – but today is not that day. I’m too ill.

Also, I do apologise for being sporadic with the posts, I will resume normal practice soon – but do be sure to check out my good friend Rhea’s blog, she posts some amazing designs and a great commentary of what’s going down in Leeds!

The Monograms Are Done

13.10.13 — Leeds

It’s Sunday, I’ve managed to miss another day of writing my blog, and I’m still ill. I should be back in Leeds right now but I’m going to take the Monday off and travel back tomorrow evening to give myself another 24 hours to recover a bit more. I’m going to miss my beloved Monday morning graphics workshop but I’m sure I can catch up, at least I can now these monograms are finally done!

The ‘studio‘ subtitles all need work, but they were added in yesterday morning over the space of 15 minutes and whilst I was recoiling after less than two hours sleep, so I think the dodgy kerning and lame typeface choices can be excused for now. No doubt I’ll be dragged up on them anyway!

In other news, it’s nice to be back at home in the ‘green room’ and spending some time with my family – even if most of my time has been spent with my head in my hands suffering coughing fits. We went out for a coffee and an ice cream at Slater’s this afternoon which was nice, and I spent some time on the Microsoft Surface, which I’m considering buying.

Also, I’ve finally decided which new phone to buy myself – an iPhone 5C in white. I took a good look at the iPhone 5S but I don’t like the way the ‘space grey’ model scratches easily, and the white glass front on the other models has always, and will always, look tacky and out of place whilst detracting from the vibrance of the screen. Additionally, I feel like the design of the 5C has been given a lot more thought than that of the 5S, the latter device feels over complicated and distant from the design of the software – even Ive himself seems a lot more passionate about the 5C than the 5S.

Fresher’s Flu Strikes

11.10.13 — Blackpool

Oh dear – I missed a day! My bad, but I’ve been feeling so ill over the past few days that I’ve only had the energy to do the bare essentials like homework, eating and sleeping. I’ve had to cancel my long awaited trip to the Royal Exchange in Manchester tonight and I’m going to have to return home at about four so that I can throw myself in bed and feel sorry for myself. Not a great end to my second week!

I thought I’d put a post in now whilst my throat isn’t on fire and my head is relatively clear (I shall still have to check this post for unforgivable typos when I’m a bit less fuzzy-headed), and then I can keep you updated. I promise not to whine about feeling ill – well not too much anyway.

I’ve decided to make the work-in-progress version of my website live for all to see, warts and all, and you can find that just by visiting ~~this link~~. (Dead link removed 17/12/14) At the time of writing it’s just a menu, but I’ll be updating it regularly with the latest design tweaks and content – hell, it may even change colour.

So today I’ll just be working on finishing off my collection of 10 monograms for my first Graphic & Communication Design brief whilst sitting here listening to this catchy Spanish song that Ricardo, our Spanish tutor, put in our module handbook. Hoy puede ser un gran día…

Lastly I’m gutted to say that I didn’t get the chance to meet up with my best friend Danni last night for a night out – we’re both too sick to do anything! So for now I’ll leave you with a picture of us riding Valhalla, the wettest water ride in the world at Blackpool Pleasure Beach…

Earlier Posts Under Review

01.01.13 — Burnley

Hello there keen backtracker! Unfortunately you have reached the end of my blog posts, as I have had to manually re-upload each post from September 2013 backwards, and haven’t got round to doing the posts beyond this point.

This was due to my old website host shutting my site down without warning, leaving me without any of my posts, which I had to recover from a backup. All I could recover was the text, and so I’ve had to search through my hard drive for hours finding all the correct photos to re-upload along with the text – no mean feat.

I do have posts which date back further, but unfortunately until I have some more free time to put back all the missing images they’re hidden from view. I can only apologise for this annoyance, but with my old host giving me zero warning before deleting all my old blog posts this is the best I can do for now.

Why not check out some of the following links? They’re cool, I promise.