July 25th, 2008
I thought I would try and make some category images for the main shop categories for the Ocean Addict site, and here are some of the first ones:

I felt vector images better suited the general style of the site, since previous graphics like the SAS Beach Cleanup image looked so good the moment it was planted in the sidebar.
June 14th, 2008
Here is a pencil sketch of Calm Down (from the 80’s cartoon Stoppit and Tidyup) drawn while waiting between support messages for a server yesterday. Very theraputic.

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June 7th, 2008
I completed this design a while back, but the original design concept image I posted up still seems to get a fair amount of interest so here is a finished (but not the final agreed) version of the logo for the site as well.

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May 23rd, 2008
Here are some new buttons to replace the horrific GIF images that came with the clean install of oscommerce on Ocean Addict. In order, they are Accounts, Shopping Cart and Checkout.

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May 18th, 2008
I have experimentally planted some of my African Cape Sundew’s offspring (drosera capensis) down by our garden pond where they seem to have settled in quite nicely with the thousands of flies that hover about around there. I found a broken pot in which to plant them, that I partially buried on its side so that a bit of water would be pooled in it, but also begin draining off if the level gets too high.

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April 16th, 2008
Yesterday I was given the interesting task of creating a looping pattern of smarties to be printed off in giant scale and wrapped around the outside of a van. After buying several smarties and taking a few photographs later, I produced this pattern:

April 7th, 2008
So here is the latest logo design project, to create a graphic for the new Snugglebums Website we shall be working on in the near future.

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March 29th, 2008
Some grass had taken seed in with my glass bowl of Cape Sundew (drosera capensis) and rather than unearthing it and killing it, I decided to re-home it in a decorative blue glass bottle, where it has been growing happily ever since.

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