New attainment!

I got myself a new pair of 6.0 Nike Zoom Mogans after looking for some decent Air Mogans for months now - without any success.

They're pretty cool tho I like them.

Have a look,...

I'm liking Matts invisible lacing. Cheers for doing that mate.

Quiksilver Tony Hawk & Friends Tour - Maxïmo Park

Heading down to London to pick up two mates just to spend another couple of hours on the motorway down to Brighton to see some skater freaks and some weirdos playing music doesn't sound like fun?

Ahhh...it does! Haha.

As a birthday present for one of my mates, we were going down to Brighton to see the

Quiksilver Tony Hawk and Friends World Tour, incl. a Maxïmo Park gig down there.

After spending a ridiculous amount of time in the car and Central London, it just wouldn't stop getting less busy on the roads.

Due to the shithole some people call London and its busy rush-hour roads we actually ended up missing Tony Hawk doing amazing tricks on the biggest transportable half-pipe in europe.

But luckily we arrived just in time to get to see Maxïmo Park!

And they were amazing!

Gutted about half a birthday present,... but it was still good.

Actually managed to get an autograpgh by Sandro Dias in the end. (see last pic).

New hobby?

I actually started skateboarding a few weeks ago,

lol I know this might not even belong in this blog and definitely hasn't deserved an entry yet. But I'll do it anyway.

Just find it funny enough as it's pretty ridiculous to start skateboarding with 22?! Hah!

It's going allright, managed to keep some sort of balance on the board - I guess that's good xD

The reason that made me wanna start skating really is that I snowboard and recently started surfing too. So the only thing out of the 'package' I've left out so far is skating.

Well, not anymore.

Couple more Ollies and some Kick-turns and I'll be confident doing it I hope xD

PS: A great, big thanks to Matt there, credit where it's due. Thanks mate for being patient enough to teach me some basics and any advice you gave me.

3D Stuff, now how cool is that?

I've been interested in 3D stuff for quite a while now, I just find the method and the effect just stunning.

So I tried to create my own 3D images, it's fairly simple...

Hope you like them, it's nothing major so far, just a dry-run really...

You will need Red/Green-Glasses.

My new passion: Surfin'

I got myself a surfboard the other day, wicked times.

After I hired one with a few mates I had my first go on one and just loved it.

I've been snowboarding for several years now and definitely want to start surfing properly now. As I 'recently' moved near the sea anyway, I guess that's an amazing opportunity to start.

Here it is, check it...

My new passion: Surfin'

I got myself a surfboard the other day, wicked times.

After I hired one with a few mates I had my first go on one and just loved it.

I've been snowboarding for several years now and definitely want to start surfing properly now. As I 'recently' moved near the sea anyway, I guess that's an amazing opportunity to start.

Here it is, check it...

IPEX - Birmingham

A couple of my fellow student colleagues and friends and my humble self went to Birmingham to visit the famous IPEX Exhibition at the National Exhibition Centre Birmingham in May 2010.

IPEX © is an international recognised Design, Print, Paper, Pre-Press, Post Production and Print Finishing exhibition. Hundreds of exhibitors and stands, amazing freebies and give-aways. Especially for students.

Stunning displays and demonstrations in all sectors.

And the best thing about it, if you pre register it's FREE! Which saves you about £30 Entry Fee.

IPEX 2011 - South Asia, will be held in India

A similar exhibition is Drupa in Düsseldorf, Germany

Here's some pics,...

The road trip from cardiff to Brummy was fun too! =)

Type Sex - Durex

Here's something I stubled upon the other day, I found it quite witty and thought it's worth a blog post.

There are some things I don't like about them though, such as the wording, I think this idea did deserve something more thoughtful maybe. But anyway,... enjoy:

2nd Year Show, Graphic Communications

We've been working on our final piece of work for the last couple of weeks in uni now,

some of us used the last project 'persuasion' that dealt with a design job for a local charity of our choice.

I've chosen to put up my persuasion project anyway, which was an anti smoking campaign for the non-profit organisation 'AshWales' based in Cardiff. I've produced a series of postcards and posters for their promotion stand at the Royal Welsh Show in July 2010.

Here's my poster, I put up on the wall for the exhibition.

Underneath I had a table with the full range of bi-lingual postcards, they came in English and Welsh.

Alongside with some Jelly shots (for 18+ only :-P ) that went well with the non-edible fag-jelly I had on the shelf just underneath the poster.

In conclusion, my showcase/display worked well enough to get chosen with 4 fellow students, out of the whole year-group to have a chat and job interview with Mark Lloyd, the Creative Director of the Brand Union based in London. Who offered a 2 weeks work-placement in their Branding Agency in London to 3 out of us 5.

Unfortunately I didn't get the job in the end but I felt pretty happy for my friends Jon Sheahan, Ruth Lucas and Matt Cornelius who managed to get a feeling of the creative industry.

The 2nd Year 'SWITCH' show is coming up...

... and my mate Matt Cornelius and myself were asked to make the invitation for it.

It had to be a flash invite and we came up with some substantial design suggestions,

we did not work in a team as our tutor told us to come up with as many different ideas as possible.

After a chat with Ray, our tutor, we decided on two design ideas. One each.

We only had a couple of days to actually turn the thought into something real, using flash.

As competitions are, only one of them could go further, luckily it was mine, I was quite pleased with it.

Here it is if you fancy a look, you can also view Matt's on his website, www.mattcornelius.co.uk in his portfolio.

Link to my flash invitation.