When in Madrid make sure you visit cafés Ginez for their Churros (a type of slightly savoury donut) with a cup of thick chocolate. Nom nom nom. 
Apr 262012
http://rdd.me/peeatniu
Always worth reading up.
Source: io9.com This post-apocalyptic short animation deserves its own movie.
Mar 182012
An aside
Mar 182012
Here’s some exciting footage from Longway North, a proposed animated feature in development from director Rémi Chayé (storyboards, The Secret of Kells, assistant director, Le Tableau), writers Claire Paoletti and Patricia Valeix, and Paris-based Sacrebleu Productions. Something new to keep our eye on…
Feb 272012
FIRST!
Nah, just testing the WordPress app on my Galaxy S. Pretty neat and amazing control over the workings in your blog without actually using a browser session.
Something I need to use a lot more.
Poster designed for the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway based round the corner from myself between Grimsby and Louth. My main aim was to reduce their yearly calendar into an easily digested piece of information, without a massive amount of whitespace – I liked the design and the thinking behind the layout, but overall it was never continued past two years of usage as they reverted to a more standard calendar approach.
Dec 192011
A few of the posters that I created for the Caxton Theatre while I was a member there – always annoyed me that they never kept a copy of the header that I redesigned, as mine (yup ego rant coming…) had a better layout which got the name of the theatre across clearly, made the website address easier to read and noted their charitable status. (end rant!)
But apart from that, I had a lot of fun designing the posters and was a good experience in layout methodology to prioritise the key elements, the posters theme and when looked closely the important information. There’ll be a load of technical terms I didn’t use there, but hey ho. 
