Photos of the snow

It's been a couple of weeks since it happened, but thought I'd share my photos of the snow. In my opinion it was exactly what this city needed. For one day everyone seemed to forget their worries and enjoy themselves. The park near me was filled with people playing in the snow, the roads were quiet and I've never seen London look so beautiful.

Photos from the camera project

And the final model - cast silicone rubber.

Some stuff from my course

My degree takes up most of my time at the moment - I'm loving it, although have to admit that it does seem to be the only thing I do and to a certain extent, a lot of my 'projects' are on hold purely because I don't have the time. Overall though, it's great and there's a definite improvement in my work and the way I work. Here's some images from a project from last term where we were briefed to design a camera for the beauty company Aveda.

Facebook is more addictive than crack vest

Someone has added photos to the Facebook group It's great to see people enjoying my designs and having fun with it.



More at One Man Band

Powerthirst

Here's something that made me laugh

Laser etching wood

Working at Zone Creations there's often some interesting stuff being run on the lasers - we've just finished a window display for Harrods and are about to make some panels for Buckingham Palace. Today, whilst in the workshop, one of the machines was engraving the top of a wooden barrel - burning off the top 2mm or so of material:




A 2009 aim has got to be to make more of the lasers here!

The Apple Wheel

Made me smile


Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Song for Someone

Song for Someone a business venture by a good friend of mine has just relaunched and now offers an even wider range of songs that are personalised and can be downloaded instantly. The site is now really easy to use, with previews of songs available for just about every name imaginable (I believe there's 400 versions of each song) Makes for a really nice last minute gift.

Augmented reality software

Interesting new technology, the user has a cube in the real world and the
camera maps the character onto it on the screen. An iphone ap came out last
week with it, and it's getting some buzz on a few blogs:
Design Boom

Etre

Has pretty limited appeal because the user has to have a webcam, but is a
nice new technology that could be incorporated into campaigns in 2009.

Freebies freebies freebies

So searches for online vouchers are going through the roof. It seems to be that the best way of promoting a product/service in 2009 will be to run a comp and place it on other websites. This week I've been doing just that for Mororola and Ben & Jerry's.

Ben & Jerry's is an interesting one - to boost interaction with their charity single music video I had the idea of offering free icecream to 20 of the people that commented. With a bit of seeding on competition sites I've seen the views go up by 250 in the last couple of hours and it now has 26 comments - some very creative entries. A few more and it'll enter the charts for the most discussed video of the day.

Both the Motorola comp and Ben & Jerry's have shown me that offer people the chance to be creative and win a nice prize and they'll interact with the content.

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