I'm a freelance designer and photographer. This blog is my way of sharing work-related news and links and suchlike.
I love my Moo cards and I think Moo like them too. Have a look over the right shoulder of Alicia, being interviewed here. Those “moody black and white” cards are mine! Yay!
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!
And here it is on the website and in the paper.
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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.
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.
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.