England kit by Peter Saville

As an example of the boundaries between the design disciplines evaporating Peter Saville designed the England Kit with Umbro.

Both Stella McCartney (for Adidas) and Alexander McQueen (for Puma) have in the past collaborated with sports brands. So signing up a renowned designer to design something as momental as the new England kit would seem to follow suit. But the choice of Saville is a fascinating one as he is neither a household name such as McCartney or McQueen (althoguh revered by designers) and perhaps more significantly he isn't a fashion designer.

Toy Story 3

It is a truth universally accepted that Pixar only make great films. And you can guarantee that if you wrote a list of the best films of the year Pixar's contribution would head that list each year

Toy Story 3 is no acceptation, it is Cinema at it's best and i believe that it confirms The Toy Story Trilogy as the greatest ever. A feat especially impressive as each film acts independently of the other and each film can be viewed without needing to watch any of the other movies.

A special mention must be made for Night and Day, the short that precedes the main feature, it is about 5 - 10 minutes long and is amazing though out and i think it uses 3d better than any other film I have seen so far.

A little bit of China

My visits to china over the last couple of years have really inspired me so I thought I would make a an image using photos I have collected while there.

Learning HTML

After frustration of not being able to do what I want to do with my website and rather than let someone else have the fun of building it, I have decided to start learnign HTML.

Having not done anything like this before it is all a little daunting. But I have been using a great book called Head first HTML which explains things on level that I can understand. would recommend it for any one wanting to get there hands dirty in code.

haha, you won't realise this but I just posted this image using html, worked it out by myself, and am now feeling rather proud of myself!

nice super mario video

Video by Andreas Heikaus for his Bachelor thesis at the University of Applied science and art Hannover. Really like the accessibly of the video, looks really low tech and approachable, yet has a bit more complexity to it.

in my opinnion the best films are always the most apparently simple yet have a hidden layer of complexity.

Super Mario Bros. from Andreas Heikaus on Vimeo.

My own mao.

In response to my trip to China I felt like I should produce my own tirbute to this great symbol for modern China.

Mao

Mao Tse-tung is more that just a historical figure, he is the uniting symbol of China, remaining the face of China as it grows into a world super power.

On going to China I decided to collect images of Chairman Mao in as many situations as possible, whether it be on clocks or statues. I hope to continue this collection in the years to come. If you have any to add to it feel free to let me know and I would love to add it to my collection.

The start of the blog

This is the beginning of my first blog since completing my degree. My hope is that this should provide me a place to collate interesting things that I have found from various sources, as well as publish some of my latest work, or quick ideas I have which maybe I wouldn't put on my main site.

And hopefully a few of you out in the vast expanse of the internet, full of designer's blogs may find this one a little bit interesting.