A few days ago I was harping on about receiving really really boring postal and emailed CVs from students wanting either job or work experience placements.

Expressing wonderment as to why on earth I was receiving sheets of white paper with black writing all over them; no attempt at ‘design flair’ in their application/CV and a complete absence of portfolio to show me either.

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First of all the music on this website is cool, but wait until you start playing with the interactive stuff. GENIUS!

Honestly, just keep clicking to go to the next scene, make sure you drag fully in both directions with your mouse when you are in a scene and have fun, it’s awesome! This has got to be the most innovative website I’ve ever seen.

A few months ago I described the research and the design process for the Olympian Mindset brand identity project.

I also recently uploaded some photos of their stationery designs (the blog directly before this one).
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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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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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I was just doing some research for a client for their fishery directory business logo design and came across this fab logo… don’t you think it’s really clever?

I don’t often comment on logos I come across, I really think this a great design though.

Not ‘totally’ loving their website, but their landing page is fairly well designed and at least good use has been made of the logo there. Disliking the splash of red writing at the top however, they should think of another way of calling attention to these words because it’s really clashing against everything else on the page and making it all feel less professional.

I went North a bit a couple of weekends ago, for a visit to the Peak District. Amazingly I’ve never been there although it’s not that far away from the Midlands.

Whilst I was there I popped into a lovely shop and saw these amazing illustrations as part of a range of high end products for Nougat London. I’ve never seen these before and was rather taken by them.

Outside of ‘products aimed at the teen market’ it’s rare to see such extensive use of illustrations in beauty product branding, so I was really pleased to find them.

These are my photos from the shop:
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I recently worked on the ‘front end web design’ for a web developers community called GAWDs (Guild of Accessible Web Developers), you can view the full design below;
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I’m feeling very pleased with myself today, having designed something that I really really like. It’s a second logo design concept for start-up business Boutique Venues.

It’s one of those situations where I ‘really’ want them to choose this concept simply because I want to work with it on all the literature design and website design.
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