End of the Year

30th December, 2007

The finalised and finished Ocean Addict logo:

For more information go to the Ocean Addict site http://www.oceanaddict.co.uk

Update on OA Shape

4th December, 2007

I had some positive feedback from my OA lettering, which is pleasing and here it is featuring a more wavey shaped O and bar across the A.

More Logo Work

30th November, 2007

My placement work seems to have taken a turn for logo and branding design, this time with a watersports brand called Ocean Addict. Here is one of a few initial design ideas I came up with but am most pleased with.

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Font Identification and Logos

22nd November, 2007

Here are some nice sites I found in my quest to find the font used in a business’s logo. Unfortunately none of them were able to find the font I was after but nevermind.

WTF

http://bowfinprintworks.com/

Flash Portfolio Gallery

6th November, 2007

I was given a task to create a gallery in flash that cycled through portfolio images like so many you see.

Here is an example of my initial efforts. Its set for 40 pictures at 1 second per picture and doesn’t loop but flicks everything back to the start in quite an impressive (if accidental) manner.

Personal Projects

20th October, 2007

Alongside neovirtua efforts, I have found myself swinging back towards the more artistic side of things after spending what seemed like the entire second year of my course coding. My puzzle flash code-thing has been all-but finished scriptwise for a while and is now in the process of gaining some nice vector art (at one stage Illustrator was a bad, bad word) and creating images for websites has rekindled my love of all things photoshop.

Placement Update

16th September, 2007

So I have been working for my placement with the guys behind http://www.neovirtua.com/ and realised I haven’t done much in the way of updating my website in a while.

I started a couple of days back a personal project to build a flash puzzle game, which can be found at http://www.srjm.co.uk/puzzle.swf. At this point it only swaps around a single piece to make it easy for me to complete (this still involves no less than 7 moves to get the pieces in place) as I test functions but soon that will change.

Placements

31st May, 2007

So now I’m in an odd situation now where I await the response of two companies following a morning with the people behind tellonline.com, and still no sound from Company of Designers (so I’m not feeling especially hopeful there). The latter gave me the impression that they were looking more for someone to fill a fulltime position rather than a placement student, and will probably want to hold on in the hope that they find someone more appropriate.

Tell Systems on the other hand were looking specifically for a student, and I feel that I might be better suited for the skills that they are looking for anyway. Despite the fact that I think I may have seemed a bit bewildered by it all on the morning, I really do hope that I get this position.

The final hurdle of the month is this afternoon at three, when I take my driving theory test. Interestingly, it is today that my hazard perception disk tells me its run out of clips.