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Sunday, November 09, 2008
more card designs
And speaking of alternative card designs, I’ve been enamored of modernist and East German graphic design recently, so did this set for Yellow Horse Productions, Scott’s production company.
Going all out with the Soviet thing:
And my personal favourite, after pharmaceutical packaging:
card designs
I’ve been concentrating on the day job recently, but have had a few minutes to work on other design projects, in particular business cards. I love to do cards for creative people and companies, because, although branding is important, you can go off on tangents and play around with lots of designs. Like the cards I did for my favourite writer (actually, my favourite everything), Scott Norton.
Monday, September 08, 2008
Just testing some embedding codE
| Created in Moviestorm |
Enjoy!
Saturday, July 19, 2008
designella
Just completed a book design project. For this one, I did the photography, cover design and interior layout. Definitely worth mentioning that the book is brilliant and the author’s pretty damn hot as well. 
You can buy it from Lulu now.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
stormin’
As Creebies and Yamake draw to a close, I’ve taken on another part-time contract. This one is three days a week at a company called Short Fuze. It’s a local company - just the other side of town - and they develop a product called Moviestorm, a moviemaking software tool that grew out of the Machinima movement. It’s quite interesting and rather a lot of fun. I’m doing a bit of web design, development and various other “stuff” like writing, editing, and organising competitions for their userbase.
Go have a look!
Monday, April 21, 2008
Talking head
Mine, in this case, talking about Creebies on PocketGamer. Part one.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
LATimes take 2
And here it is on the website and in the paper.
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Monday, March 24, 2008
Warner Springs in the LA Times Magazine
I’ve just had confirmation that one of my photos taken at Warner Springs ranch in California will be published in the LA Times Magazine on the 6th of April. If you’re in the area, could you pick me up a copy, please? I’m pretty sure I won’t be anywhere near there next week.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Publicity Shots
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Review, review
Both of my latest titles have been reviewed by Pocket Gamer and very nice they are, too.
Creebies is closest to completetion and whilst the single comment on the article was less than encouraging, the review itself was unique in the fact that they really got what I was trying to do with it. Creebies is very close to my heart, you see. I think it’s funny, interesting and really quite deep. Deeper than you might think on first glance, that is. I’m also pleased that the reviewer enjoyed the hurdles mini-game, since that’s also my favourite and one I had to fight to keep in its present form (testers considered it too hard). The reviewer also pointed out the tricky issue with regard to audience for Creebies. We’d aimed it at a young, primarily female target market, since that’s what was requested, but of course, that market generally don’t buy the phones that the game runs on! I’m hoping that older girls and women - like me - will also enjoy it.
Yamake is still in production and also got quite a good review, despite the reviewer not being able to make any games. The latest version has some really fun and challenging new quizzes in it. It’s a great title to bring out at the pub or when traveling with friends. I predict it will do well! I hope!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
BirdNote budgie
One of my photos of a captive budgie was published in a current issue of BirdNote to illustrate a feature from the US public radio station NPR. Do listen to the MP3 of the clip. The budgie image is there to accompany a clip from Sparky the budgerigar, a well-know English talking bird from the 50s. You’ll be amazed at its speaking ability. There’s also a little mention of the late Alex the African Grey - one of my favourite birds of all time.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Creebies video “leaked” onto YouTube
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Yamake for N-Gage announced
Nokia has announced Yamake for N-Gage, by Nokia Games Publishing, which makes it possible for players to create their own games from a range of mini games by adding content, then playing and sharing them with friends and the wider Yamake community.
See the press release here.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Creebies comes to N-Gage
Creebies is a quirky and fun 3D virtual pet title for Nokia’s N-Gage platform. Their new gaming platform runs on a wide range of Nokia multimedia devices, including the N73, N95 and N81.
You can choose from 16 different breeds of Creebies, all with their own individual personalities, appearance and even their own digital DNA that will allow you to breed Creebies together to make all new and entirely unique Creebies. You can play games with them, buy them toys and accessories from the shops or compete in crazy competitions against other Creebies - your own or your friends’ via BlueTooth or the N-Gage Arena.
Creebies live each in their own “mobile home” that you can customise inside and out with wallpaper, flooring and furniture. How you treat your Creebies and the items you buy for them will affect their personality and can colour the relationship they have with other Creebies.
Creebies are highly sociable. They play, fight and fall in love (or not!). It’s up to you to care for them, teach them and ensure they have all they need to live long, happy lives!
Creebies is due for release in early 2008 and is published by Nokia. You can read the official press release here.
