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This is some of the crazy stuff video I’ve been upto, more to follow

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Its been 3 weeks I’ve had of and ample opportunity for exploring this fine land of New Zealand on a road trip with a tent, my family a card and a CD player. On continuous cycle has been Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part and more accurately the song Oh My Lord.

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A few folks have asked how I pull the blog feeds through to this home page, so here is the code I use, as a little gift for being awesome people, I have pulled it through exactly as I use it so that you can see and toy with a working example in all it nasty detail.

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I have taken up commuting again and to make the trip more palatable and playful I have decided that I will sculpt a micropoem on each inbound trip at least and tweet them daily on my arrival at work.

All poems are for now available at Micropoems.com in the future I intend to combine them with some photos / paintings I’m working in and make them into a little Ltd edition book.

The ever decreasing few who know me in the physical world as well as he digital will be aware that my background is in the fine arts and if you’ve ever had the dubious pleasure of being my house guest will be aware of the large painting that’s always adorned my walls entitled ‘Soul mate’ and dealt with the idea of sailing through life’s troublesome waters alone and searching for and hopefully finding a soul mate. Read the rest of this entry »

Just a quick post to get this off my mind, its a simple little idea but I would argue that it makes a heap of difference to how users feel when they contact you and the quality of the information they provide when they do. Read the rest of this entry »

I have just uploaded a selection of the panels I designed that are now part of the London Zoo’s big cat enclosure that details the dangers to these beauties.  I finished them back in February but am only now managing to get an opportunity to update this site, amongst moving, working with Cucumber and designing the new Liberty Human Rights web site life is a little on the manic side so once again apologies for the lag in replying to emails, I do love you and I love hearing form all you folks both socially and project related.

I’ve taken up a new post leading the design side of Cucumber a cracking digital agency based in Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. I’ll still be taking on new projects through this site, and with the added support of Cucumber’s accomplished development team I’ll be able to deliver much more complex digital solutions. I’ll still be taking on smaller design & Illustration projects myself though as and when something arrives that peaks my interest.

Just a quick update to apologies to all those folks I’ve not replied to emails and requests to (I don’t like being one of THOSE people). Secondly the reason that I’ve become one of those folks is because I’ve landed some big yet quick turn around jobs that I need to sort out asap. The jobs are for 7UP through Spook Media, the Liberty Human Rights redesign and a separate campaign and some design work for the signage at London Zoo for the BIG CATS exhibit, plus numerous other projects waiting in the wings shouting at me for there attention. So if your one of those shouting for my attention I promise you’ll have it soon and I don’t mean to be an arse.