In October I blogged in excitement about some t-shirt designs I created for highly successful Dallas fashion brand Katydid Collection, and even got in a right tizz about the thought of Jennifer Aniston wearing one (well, they did mail her one, the very least she could do is show some semblence of blinkin’ gratitude and wear it … oh yes and then get photographed in it also.)

Well, I have exciting news ….
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Big thanks to the guys over at Pimp My Art who very kindly sent me a beautiful piece in the post from their plastic wall art collection.
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The Northern Design Competition is offering over £12,000 in prizes to higher education students!

No it’s not just a glorified spec work competition because I don’t post those (boo to spec work), it’s a genuine opportunity for not just for cold hard cash, but the chance to impress your peers, gain industry exposure, and go to a fancy dinner.

The Northern Design Competition aims to reward talented students across the north of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for their work in the creative arts.

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It’s not that cool, I found out today that your Macbook can be way cooler… check it out;

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I’m a HUGE horror fan, and also a big fan of many types of music, and also ‘musicals’.

So I was really interested when fabulous hyperactive blogger Swiss Miss alerted me to the fact that there is an exhibition of the creative works of Tim Burton about to launch on the 22nd November, and running until April 2010 at the Museum of Modern Arts in New York.

I’m seriously thinking that maybe I’d like to visit that between now and April. Maybe a girls weekend in New York

Tim Burton has produced some amazing creative works, in particular my favourite being The Nightmare Before Christmas, which to me is an animated musical masterpiece.
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Murrrhh ha ha ha, it’s All Hallow’s Eve tomorrow. As witnessed by my pumpkins above Not lit … it’s not dark enough yet.

Want to see some cool spooky/Halloween designs? See below:
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Very shortly after my new office was erected I had a final year design student in for the day for some work experience - not a graphic design student, but a ‘fashion design’ student called Kelly.

I work with fashion/retail clients fairly regularly and thus luckily on the day Kelly came into the office I just so happened to have a highly suitable project for her to work on that was very fashion related and also for a client who has achieved long term success in the wholesale fashion business.

The end result of our collaboration on this project proved very useful for both of us, so it was a fantastic ‘work experience’ all round.
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Respected blogger Tara Roskell seems to have disappeared from Cyberspace for 7 months now.

Born from 15 years of graphic design experience, her once extremely high profile Graphic Design Blog featured it’s last blog in October 2008, not a word since as far as I can tell, and Tara’s last personal blog was dated May 2008.

Any graphic designer will remember well the hay days of Graphic Design Blog and yet there seems no mention at all in the design community as to why the blogging has stopped and what Tara is doing now? I for one am very curious.
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A few years ago I saw the portrait work of Julian Opie, and it was the first time I’d heard of this artist … I think that this type of work is probably what he is most famous for … portraits and people.

Recently I reminded of his art when I saw the design work of a local design agency Zulu Creative for Birmingham Midshires. The Birmingham Midshires project in their portfolio displays simple and colourful characters in lifestyle setting, which seem very Julien Opie-like to me. Which is why he popped to mind.
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I’ve created a brand identity design recently that I think is a well designed piece … memorable and appealing as well as being original for it’s industry. Its modern and yet should stand the test of time in it’s simplicity.

What is very strange though, is considering myself and the client are so happy with the design, as to why the concept was preceded by about 3 days of hellish creative block - in fact the worst creative block I’ve experienced in 7yrs.
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