Live Brief

I recently took part in a live group project with Nokia and design company Kin. We were asked to design an exhibition space to promote a new technology Nokia were releasing called So-Lo (Social Location). These are some of my illustrations for one of our three initial ideas we presented to Kin. It depicts a wall made from small, detachable cards that act as a tracking device of each person that takes one. This would then be mapped on an online GPS map to be shared amongst the users of the space, showing their journeys since the exhibition.

This was actually not our final design idea, as that consists of a video that we have yet to put online. As soon as it's up, I'll pop it on here. Promise.

Camdens Crawling

So this is what I did yesterday, I went to the Camden Crawl.
I minced around the streets, saw an alien invasion (The Big Pink (ace) >> top pic), watched Madness perform on an open top bus (bottom pic) didn't spot Joe Cornish and just generally queued for long periods of time. I had a fun time, but the thing is, no one seems that bothered by actually seeing the bands. But then when they do and I had to queue, I got annoyed, so...

Plus I spent most of the evening wishing I had worn more black and less flower-in-my-hair.

Home made scrabble

Travel Scrabble was simply too expensive.

We-go-slavia

Last year I went to Slovenia.
This is all that was there.

Portfolio

So here it is, the finished portfolio. All in all I'm pretty happy with it, just everything's a bit BIG. But some nice little touches; fabric swatches for tactility, transparency paper for the title pages...
Binding the thing was a bit of an experience. I taught myself the art of Japanese stab binding (with A LOT of help from Charlotte), which I personalised by using ribbon instead of the traditional string.
It is certainly not a mans portfolio.

Designing for Death

Everything can be designed for.
This design stems from the shocking discovery of how many people die unnoticed in their homes each year. Some remaining undiscovered for almost a year. I didn't want to tiptoe around this. I wanted to design for these people. Not to save them from death but to save them from an unnoticed one.
My final outcome was a product that would weigh the amount of post that came through a persons door and was left unopened. When it reached a certain weight, after a certain time, the letterbox would jam and alert the outside world (or at least the postman).
This is an instruction kit I designed as a continuation of this project that illustrates how the user might make their own model. I chose to deal with this sensitive subject in an overly practical way. This created a strong contrast that might highlight this issue that shouldn't be occurring in such a communication obsessed culture.

Jeremy

In cognito.

Washing line+work=working line

This is what I mean by working line.

Rockfeedback.magazine

So recently I was asked to design a magazine for super duper music site Rockfeedback.com. It was only wee, (A5, 8 pages to be scientific) and they had a pretty clear idea in their collective head. These are some words that were bandied around;

lo-fi . zine . zerox . punk . sorry . D.I.Y . illustrate . clean . thanks

So I wrote these words on a piece of paper and hung it from my working line.

Herb Head Trolls

I made these as part of a mini workshop brief. Here are three things this process involved;
- redesigning or developing upon an existing object
- creating a troll-sized, waterproof turban
- making a mould from Alegenate. Which is minty. And green.

You want one, don't you?

Hello.

So why a blog? Why now? Well, I like talking about myself and sometimes I want people to see something I have done. Kind of like a child. Plus I got Myspace, (bypassed Bebo/Bebop/Bobep/Bopeep), then got Facebook, then got Twitter, so this must be the next step. I think this is the most exciting thing I have done since I got a squirrel to sit on my knee.