Take A Break

Came across this old LP recently. ‘Take A Break’ is an album of advertising jingles re-worked by  Robert James Orchestra and it was issued in 1972 by EMI. [...]

Published on Aug 28, 2010 at 10:17 pm.
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ooh- just there, more more.

Became a bit distracted while exploring routes for a new branding project. It must have been the dry corporate nature of the client which led me here. [...]

Published on Jul 21, 2010 at 9:10 pm.
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Angles


More interesting Parisian angles. This time from the drawing board of Architect Christian de Portzamparc. Situated in The Parc de la Villette, [...]

Published on Jul 14, 2010 at 4:28 pm.
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The Devil is in the detail


A short distance from Gare de Marseille Saint-Charles. It was hot damp n dirty. Massive embouteillages right through Marseile, desparately trying [...]

Published on Jul 09, 2010 at 12:48 am.
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Form

From the Parc de la Villette a Paris. Today it exists by itself with no need for an explanation. Tomorrow I may add my pennies worth.


Published on Jun 26, 2010 at 9:49 am.
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Hrvatskua Preporoda

The little Croatian village of Bol on the western coast of the island of Brac is a wonderous place. The beach of Zlatni rat and a monastry that snuggles against [...]

Published on Jun 15, 2010 at 7:00 pm.
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Electric Kool Aid

Absolutely stunned by this adshell in Pigalle Metro. It was meant to be delivering some sales pitch for some useful, but ultimately pointless item [...]

Published on Jun 11, 2010 at 2:32 pm.
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The contents

The cards that appeared in the envelope because I know you were wondering. No post production but just shot in macro with spot focus hence the small area [...]

Published on Jun 06, 2010 at 1:37 pm.
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Johnstone Sans

The typeface will be recognisable to anybody who has ever entered the London Underground system as being Johnston Sans [...]

Published on Jun 03, 2010 at 1:44 pm.
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Comté

Here’s some wrapping that niftily manages to combine three of my favourite things: Lovely colour palette, repeating geometric shapes and cheese. ……………. lots and lots of cheese.

Published on May 19, 2010 at 11:25 am.
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Relax without Max

Really starting to have fun in a 3D world now….and no, that’s not the ‘Avatar’ kind. This is a cropped frame of an animated sequence that i’m working on [...]

Published on May 05, 2010 at 11:20 pm.
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Nice

That’s all I have to say on the matter.

Published on May 05, 2010 at 6:32 pm.
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Banana to go

The Banana has its own package, there is absolutely no reason to put it into a polystyrene tray and cover it with plastic wrap. There seems to be a [...]

Published on May 03, 2010 at 8:28 am.
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Spamalot

Having previously had to suffer the questionable delights of  a weekly shopping trip to my rather pokey local Tesco Metro on Portobello Rd, I was [...]

Published on May 02, 2010 at 2:27 pm.
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Booooom

Staying on the Icelandic theme- some nice igneous inspired packaging for Opal licqorice sweets. Like skyr and dried fish, this one of Iceland´s traditional [...]

Published on Apr 23, 2010 at 5:18 pm.
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First find a Volcano

Picked up this amazing pop-up book when visiting Iceland in Nov 2008. It comes with a purchase of Ryka Vodka which is made in Reykjavík and it [...]

Published on Apr 19, 2010 at 7:51 pm.
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3D lighting

Some exploratory 3d stuff for a client. This is test render #30. Not quite there yet due to some strange shadow action but starting to look quite nice i think….

Published on Apr 16, 2010 at 12:28 pm.
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Side effects

These are litigious times that we live in and everyone seems to be covering their derriers by issuing disclaimers. It has become so ridiculous that [...]

Published on Apr 07, 2010 at 12:47 pm.
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Logo development

Construction of logo for Mobile Music Stuff who specialise in ’scaleable music media solutions for web and mobile’ (it says here) [...]

Published on Mar 30, 2010 at 2:33 pm.
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Design to make your heart race

The French are a funny lot. Curmudgeonly and apathetic are two phrases that come to mind quite often, but when it comes to designing beautiful [...]

Published on Mar 26, 2010 at 11:18 am.
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