Instagram Week 2

This week I have been mostly staying late at the office to put together my colleague's wedding magazine, eating high sugar foods, walking home in the snow, and helping with photoshoots.

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Instagram Week 1

Here are some pictures from my week. I think i'll do this as a weekly thing as I know a lot of people don't have instagram. But it's a nice little way to capture memories of day to day things which are often taken for granted or just simply ignored.
At work this week I have been mostly working hard, wearing slipper boots, trying strange fruit, designing food labels, collecting giant stationary, and eating unhealthily.

At home I have mostly been reading under the covers (a sheltuered sanctuary from the hard weather outside), eating takeout, watching jackass3 with friends, and running round the new forest taking pictures for two ongoing projects.

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Kraken

Thanks to the chaps over at Dead Sea Mob I have recently discovered 'Kraken' Black Spiced Rum. It amazed me that with just one simple product they have managed to expand the range through exquisite illustrative branding to incorporate a whole heap of other delightful trinkets.

I would personally love to deck out a room in my future house in some of this stuff! I especially love the table lamp and the old style book which accompanies the beverage. The consistency in design and colour palette across the entire product range really works and echos quality.

Christmas Card

In the last few weeks at work for Opus Print I created a company christmas card which they sent out to their clients and also some limited edition wine boxes. 

The cards doubled as chocolate dispensers as they slotted into the stocking pockets within.

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Time and Tide

So that job I applied for, which I talked about In my last post, called back. I have an interview with them 12 days from now. I'm excited! I have also sold the Mini and will be dropping her off to her lovely new owner later today. Tomorrow I am going shopping and then going to Matchams with some friends to watch Banger Racing! Something I haven't done before and I'll no doubt take some pictures to blog.
I have also spent quite a fair amount of time this week drawing up a tattoo for my left thigh whilst watching various movies back to back. Starting with Coraline (Neil Gaiman <3).
Anyway here's the finished design. I have always liked the expression as I am a believer of making your own destiny and sometimes I need a bit of a push.

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This Week

I've finally found a job advertisement I'm pretty excited about. It's not often you find something that is so perfect that you literally cannot sit still. I want to run down to head office now and tell them why they should hire me! So fingers crossed. I hope they give me a call back.

This week I am also putting my much loved mini up for sale. There is no reason for me to have two classic cars and I just cant justify spending money on both. So after a little tlc and and a decent photo shoot she will be spammed across the internet and hopefully sold. I will be sad to see her go but I also have huge plans for my truck! 

With a little photoshop trickery this is what I want to happen:

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Stop Motion Sweetheart

It is becoming increasingly apparent that I actually have a major soft spot for stop motion animation. I'd easily watch an animated film over the latest blockbuster and Coraline is without a doubt one of my all time favourite movies.
Having spent a large proportion of my childhood making things and letting my imagination run riot I believe I have let this spill over to what now seems to feel like a very grown-up lifestyle. I remember making Aardman style rabbits in my first year at uni and also a set where an elephant had turned on a caveman. 

It has really start to hit home how much I wish I had waited until now to do a university degree in something I am 100% sure I want to do. I guess I was still far too immature when I set off for what Plymouth had to offer all those years ago. I met some amazing people and learned a lot but I so wish I could start over again at the Bournemouth Arts Institute. 

Especially after having spent the last hour on vimeo unearthing stop motion masterieces such as Andrew Robinson's 'Fall' and Kirsten Lepore's 'Bottle'. Alas I could not afford to put myself through college now whilst still paying my rent and bills each month. These are indeed, sad times. 

So I've been looking into evening classes at the Art's Institute instead. Unfortunately the spring term is sold out so if I build up the momentum to actually take the course then it will have to be in the summer. I suppose it's not a bad thing that the course is in popular demand. It would be nice to meet some like minded people down this way. People who would rank a creative night in over a drunken night out.

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The Sailor and The Fisherman

Today I have just mailed off some snaps of my recently completed submissions to #Offbeige exhibition in Brighton. Hopefully I will find out in the next couple of days whether they are picked to be part of the final collection. 

Fingers crossed.

For more pictures and information check out my portfolio on the main part of my website. Or to attend the event click this LINK.

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Sneaky Peek

As I'm not very well today, I thought I would take this time to post a very special 'sneaky peek' of a personal project which, I have been working on in the shadows. It's so near completion now that posting a little picture won't do any harm.

Plus the fact you can't really tell what it is other then a piece of fabric in a box.
Today I will also be working on my entries to the #OffBeige exhibition in Brighton next month but more on that another time.
Lastly I got an email the other day informing me that a time, date and venue has finally been confirmed for that 90 Minute Art Auction I did last year for Creative Orchestra. So here's the flyer for that event.

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Badgers Badgers Badgers

Just a quick post tonight to share some genius ale branding. Badger Ales have been around for a long time but a couple of the bottles particularly caught my eye amongst the hordes of other competing brands. 'Hopping Hare' and 'Fursty Ferret' were 2 out of the full range of Badger beverages to undergo a complete rebrand in August 2011 by BrandOpus. Although the other designs within the range were well executed, these two were my favourite by far:

They state on their blog;
"We’re really proud to see our redesign of the full range of nine Badger ales hitting the shelves over the forthcoming weeks.  Although the beer remains the ale that Badger fans know and love, the redesign has brought to life the proposition of countryside ales through the rural themes of each of the individual beers. The characters aim to hark back to Badger’s Dorset origins, differentiating the brand from the competition."
Although I'm from Somerset and I now live in Dorset (therefore a true south-wester at heart) I've never really been an Ale drinker, but I liked the labels so much that I bought the bottles regardless.
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