Nairtl Screenshots

Wow, so i'm just back from Dubai almost TWO WEEKS late due to the Icelandic Volcano God.

I'm tearing busy, lots of lost time to make up for, some niggling adjustments to the Nairtl promo (screenshots above) plus I have a lot to prepare for the Sloop2 meeting in Romania next week. First time going to Romania! Am intrigued.

And to finish... best volcano joke i've heard so far... "yo momma so fat, when she was cremated flights in Europe were cancelled for a week!" Ahaha!

Amazing PIXELS!

I'm still up the walls for that Nairtl video BUT...

this just turned up in my twitter feed via elvis communications

It's fantastic!! I had to go and find out more about, it's from One More Production and was created by Patrick Jean, One More Prod's latest signing apparently. Deadly stuff!

A Working Bank Holiday...

Tearing busy at the moment, finishing off storyboards for NAIRTL need to get into production today to get it done for Friday.

Here's a sample of the storyboards. I scrapped the earlier varied colour palette in favour of something much more minimalist which I think works well and better reflects NAIRTL's visual identity.

Hence, my poor uncelebrated bank holiday... though I am going to see Kick Ass later so it's not all bad!

Paper Installations!

My new favourite things!

Came across these deadly paper installations, first by Paper Donut, the second by Lenancker Romain via weheart.co.uk and the third by Le Creative Sweatshop, via designyoutrust.com. They're so much fun and so colourful. They have a great sense of freedom and creativity, love them!

I am not an artist

Had fun doing this little gif today for I am not an artist. It popped up on design you trust during the week so I filed it away to do at the weekend! It's curated by Soon in Tokyo, I think it's a really cool idea, like a digital version of contributing a patch to a quilt, wonder how long it'll run for?

It was done in photoshop cs4, which has a very handy animation feature. Feel like I did something productive with my Saturday now, which from the outset seemed like it was doomed to a be a hangover write-off!

Self-Indulgence!

This is a very self-indulgent post, but then that's what I guess this blog is about!

I love doing colour palettes for projects, they just give me so much satisfaction and I love looking at them for some reason (I know - NERD!). So on that note, here's one I did today for a NAIRTL marketing animation.

Lovely colours, lovely squares, satisfaction!

Visualising ELVIN

I’ve been working today on visualising the ELVIN social networking platform, the different interactions and the different tools etc that will hopefully pair learners and learners as well as learners and content. We have a skype meeting tomorrow with all partners so hopefully these will go a long way in making sure everyone knows what we’re talking about!

There’s a lot to work out but visualising the process really helps!

Here’s an example of one of the diagrams.