Cycling project completed

After one of the busiest weeks of my life and an all nighter I have submitted my final self directed project at college. Very pleased with it all and think I have a product that has potential to be sold in shops. Needs more work to bring it to market though.

Next up is the client project which is very exciting. I will be designing furniture.

Create the perfect woman (or man) for yourself

I am currently seeding this campaign for Surrogates release on DVD and blu-ray, I'm working with Firebelly Creative who have made an online game where you can make your perfect woman or man at Surrodate
Enter your preferences for eye and hair colour along with your interests and it will generate your Surrodate. This is what it came up with for me. Not bad...

Siftables

Developed by MIT these little blocks could revolutionise education - I particularly like the way they can be used to create sums and words.

It does appear to be that successful products today create the hardware that supports open source software that allows for infinite possibilities - the iphone being the best example of this. If the software for these blocks became open source then there are so many possibilities.



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T shirt sale now on

One Man Band is still going, but I think this year I shall be working on it slightly less so that I can focus on the design and marketing side of things. I have therefore started a sale on the site to sell the remaining stock that I have - some great T shirts from ten pounds at Facebook T shirts

New viral seeding launch

Happy new year! I'm starting the new year by getting through all the jobs I've been meaning to do, building the foundations so that the rest of the year goes nice and smoothly. First off I've and created better branding and redesigned my Viral Seeding website which now includes most of the campaigns I have worked on and the results for each of them - the nice bits of coverage that I achieved. At the end of the day it's about results so I wanted to include this. It is also has a bit more about what viral seeding is about.

The good news is that it's already providing results. Traffic is increasing and I'm getting a few inquiries.


Next up is another redesign, along similar lines for Lee Washington Design which also features a CMS which will make it easier to add new projects.

Perspective on the same

Checking the news this morning, it was interesting to see two different view points of exactly the same data. Why it's important to use the internet to get news from as many different perspectives as possible.

Tension

An excellent short film beautifully shot with a superb track. The tension builds and builds until...

Metal on Metal "BASTARD" from The Glue Society on Vimeo.

via the superb 22GL

Got a dog? There's an app for that

The applications for iphone are staggering and I am currently seeding my first iphone application - Dogbook. While at first you wouldn't believe there could be an iphone app for your dog, it is actually incredibly useful. You can locate the nearest park anywhere in the world via your location on GPS, you can see what other dogs are nearby should you lose your dog you can send an 'arf' alert to other users within 15km with a photo of the dog so it can be found again. Iphone makes life that little bit easier once more. Download it for free from itunes

Record breaking cocktail genius!

Currently seeding this viral for TGI Fridays featuring some pretty awesome bar tricks - particularly like the flaming sambucca's. It's from Viral Factory who are always very good at making virals that make people have huge debates in the comments section as to which bits are real and which bits are fake. Creates a lot of buzz and 210k views in the first week is not bad at all.

Design and cycling update

The project is going well. I wanted to share the entire process with you, but as soon as I moved to generating concepts I realised that in order to protect my ideas it wouldn't be a good idea to post them on the web. While initially I'm all for sharing ideas, the tangle proof headphones experience gave me a quick introduction to intellectual property and the number one thing I learnt was do not post ideas on the web too early. I am designing a coat for women and I will share the finished product and info on the degree show.

Which means this blog shall now return to talking about design and marketing, with the occasional update on the design and cycling project.