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Monday, 16 November 2009
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
"i think that cars today are almost the exact equivalant of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists"
ISSUE 25 CARL*S CARS
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ISSUE 25 CARL*S CARS
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Monday, 9 November 2009
we will not lose, because we or not losers ... we are L.A.S.E.R.S
"we want a end to the glamorization of negativity in the media, we want a end to the status symbols that dictate our worth as individuals... we want to think our own thoughts"
Forever I have had people question why I do this, people wondering why I travel the amount of hours daily to go to college or places like xenophya [which is around 6 hours travelling too and forth] without pay to make a name. I just want to do something and be something like everyone else does and right now Detroit maybe a long shot, a dream, a fantasy that may come true but may not come true and I know the facts, the percentages, the overall possability of that outcome of an email that says ... Dear Stephen, Congratulations. More than anyone else.
I've never conformed to the norm, I’ve been chasing a dream from my childhood, I’m chasing that dream harder than i possibly could, probably too hard but if there’s that tiny chance I make it in I couldn’t care about the pay, the benefits as long as I live nicely I just want to be behind that desk at Ford in Detroit or Honda in Los Angeles nothing would give me more satisfaction than to pen the design of a object that’s mass produced and seen tenfold in day to day life. So for all the doubters, the people I grew up around that saw/see me as an outsider that just can’t understand - this is me.
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Artist inspired series [Daniel Simon]
Been meaning to do this for a while, a artist inspired series/trying to imitate a artists style, first in the series being Daniel Simon a great car designer that everyone in the industry knows about but in case not or you’re not from the design background Daniel Simon graduated from Pforzheim in Germany, worked in the VW advanced concept studio and left after a lot of his work never left the underground... released his Cosmic Motors book last summer that I discovered in the CCS Bookstore and helped me gain inspiration whilst I was out of it for the first few days... the book is full of futuristic concepts and has given him a kick-start into the concept design industry creating the bike in the latest TRON Movie.
For the last five years learning myself to draw cars i can probably count on one hand the amount of times of drawn cars rather than designed them. I guess that’s kind of a big problem with my work, I need to get out there to some garages and just do some real life observations, take up close photographs of certain details observe the headlight jewellery and generally just see how shadows lay over the surface of the body. I have a lot of weaknesses that could just be ironed out by spending a few days kicking it around car garages – something i will defiantly have to get round to doing next summer.
I just thought I would throw in this little sketch i found on my hardrive, seems pretty cool have a load of random things like this lying about maybe I will do a mini series.
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Travelling with technology & never sleep
Lately I’ve started to carry my laptop, I’ve mentioned briefly about putting a ‘digital work database’ together basically digitalizing all the work I have ever done onto a hard drive that I can carry around with me where ever I go. I love that aspect that I can carry everything all my old random sketches when I was younger, notes of concepts I want to follow up sometime I feel that carrying my older work will enable me to go back and look at what went wrong and then be able to act upon it with my next similar project and as we get increasingly more mobile filtering my work onto a drive that i essentially call my own ‘visual design story’ at such a early stage of my career will help come in handy through every single stage of my career, providing i keep it up to date everyday!
However what really gets on my nerves how carrying equipment to capture what I’m getting up to is very un-fashionable it a camcorder, camera, hard drive and my laptop takes up so much space and makes me looking like I’m going on a camping adventure, its mainly my laptop with its huge 17” inch screen that takes up the space. Not only the fashionable aspect but the fact is my laptop 17 inch makes impossible to use on my 4 hour daily travel between home and college. As a designer i really need the bigger screen, but also I carry a small wacom too so I was thinking why can’t I just carry around a 17 inch screen rather than a 34 inch fold out machine. Laptops need to be updated to the new age that’s being demand by the ‘iphone generation’ which in its unit simply has a single button but is a platform device that has millions of uses other than being a mobile phone.
I’m just thinking out loud but how about a wrist video cam? Can you imagine the flexibility of such thing... how much more video capture we could produce! you could argue this idea is pretty much obsolete because of the revolution of phones donning the video capture even apple brought it in with their recent update of the ipod However i find the problem with these devices is that you have to go to the trouble of getting them out of your pocket, stopping in the middle of the street or where ever you are at the time, with the wrist-cam concept you could just put your arm up, stretch and capture I know I hardly ever video capture on my mobile because I have this sense of insecurity that everyone thinks I’m a techno freak or just generally a freak by what I’m trying to capture. A typical example for me was last week in London when I stopped to take a photo of a Lamborghini Gallardo... wow right? Like no one has seen one of them before however its very urban style with extra body kit and insane rims could of been used for future reference. Anyway with the fast paced streets of the capital I felt dumbed down and also vulnerable because it was about 10pm and pitch black, all these social insecurities could vanish with this concept, I wouldn’t have had to stop, I could have just kept on walking pressed one button to record one to stop, done. Let’s say this wrist-cam was linked up to my 17”inch screen in my backpack and that had constant mobile broadband such as the service three has launched [MiFi] and on the display of the wristwatch was a sharing application.. In seconds I could show something that I thought was inspiring, interesting through to my design followers without great hassle.
Especially as a designer reducing the excess in my backpack and having wearable technology would create that extra diversity whilst travelling, being able to capture inspirations a lot more easily but most importantly being able to do it quickly a lot quicker than having to get a camera out of a backpack, I know there’s a lot more stuff I would record if it was ‘easier’ to control not in the sense that I’m lazy just the majority of the time i come across inspiring objects/sights is when I’m rushing to get to a certain location normally when I’m running late to college. Im sure this is probably something maufacturers are allready working on i hope so i wasnt sure if it was worth pumping out some sketch work, maybe its something i'l work on soon.
I’ve been going into waterstones for a while endlessly looking at the design shelf, nothing really strikes me as special, i havent been able to find something that i thought would help me personally and all the stores I have visited in the north seem to have a general mixture of art/fashion/design into one not any specific innovative books. One grabbed my attention at the when I was in London last week, In front of me was this book with never sleep written on its side so i was like hmmm sounds all too familiar... I pulled it out and was even more intrigued by the back cover representing the words “THERE IS A MAJOR DISCONNECT BETWEEN THE LIFE OF A DESIGN STUDENT AND THE TRANSITION TO BEING A DESIGN PROFESIONAL” and to be honist its one of the best books that i have ever read, written by the guys Andre and Dan [dress code].
I'm only half way through but they talk a lot about expectations, internships, money problems the list goes on and i suggest anyone in any field of design buys it because it will most definatly give you more of a clarified insight into how to make it into the creative industry.
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However what really gets on my nerves how carrying equipment to capture what I’m getting up to is very un-fashionable it a camcorder, camera, hard drive and my laptop takes up so much space and makes me looking like I’m going on a camping adventure, its mainly my laptop with its huge 17” inch screen that takes up the space. Not only the fashionable aspect but the fact is my laptop 17 inch makes impossible to use on my 4 hour daily travel between home and college. As a designer i really need the bigger screen, but also I carry a small wacom too so I was thinking why can’t I just carry around a 17 inch screen rather than a 34 inch fold out machine. Laptops need to be updated to the new age that’s being demand by the ‘iphone generation’ which in its unit simply has a single button but is a platform device that has millions of uses other than being a mobile phone.
I’m just thinking out loud but how about a wrist video cam? Can you imagine the flexibility of such thing... how much more video capture we could produce! you could argue this idea is pretty much obsolete because of the revolution of phones donning the video capture even apple brought it in with their recent update of the ipod However i find the problem with these devices is that you have to go to the trouble of getting them out of your pocket, stopping in the middle of the street or where ever you are at the time, with the wrist-cam concept you could just put your arm up, stretch and capture I know I hardly ever video capture on my mobile because I have this sense of insecurity that everyone thinks I’m a techno freak or just generally a freak by what I’m trying to capture. A typical example for me was last week in London when I stopped to take a photo of a Lamborghini Gallardo... wow right? Like no one has seen one of them before however its very urban style with extra body kit and insane rims could of been used for future reference. Anyway with the fast paced streets of the capital I felt dumbed down and also vulnerable because it was about 10pm and pitch black, all these social insecurities could vanish with this concept, I wouldn’t have had to stop, I could have just kept on walking pressed one button to record one to stop, done. Let’s say this wrist-cam was linked up to my 17”inch screen in my backpack and that had constant mobile broadband such as the service three has launched [MiFi] and on the display of the wristwatch was a sharing application.. In seconds I could show something that I thought was inspiring, interesting through to my design followers without great hassle.
Especially as a designer reducing the excess in my backpack and having wearable technology would create that extra diversity whilst travelling, being able to capture inspirations a lot more easily but most importantly being able to do it quickly a lot quicker than having to get a camera out of a backpack, I know there’s a lot more stuff I would record if it was ‘easier’ to control not in the sense that I’m lazy just the majority of the time i come across inspiring objects/sights is when I’m rushing to get to a certain location normally when I’m running late to college. Im sure this is probably something maufacturers are allready working on i hope so i wasnt sure if it was worth pumping out some sketch work, maybe its something i'l work on soon.
NEVER SLEEP
I’ve been going into waterstones for a while endlessly looking at the design shelf, nothing really strikes me as special, i havent been able to find something that i thought would help me personally and all the stores I have visited in the north seem to have a general mixture of art/fashion/design into one not any specific innovative books. One grabbed my attention at the when I was in London last week, In front of me was this book with never sleep written on its side so i was like hmmm sounds all too familiar... I pulled it out and was even more intrigued by the back cover representing the words “THERE IS A MAJOR DISCONNECT BETWEEN THE LIFE OF A DESIGN STUDENT AND THE TRANSITION TO BEING A DESIGN PROFESIONAL” and to be honist its one of the best books that i have ever read, written by the guys Andre and Dan [dress code].
I'm only half way through but they talk a lot about expectations, internships, money problems the list goes on and i suggest anyone in any field of design buys it because it will most definatly give you more of a clarified insight into how to make it into the creative industry.
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Tuesday, 3 November 2009
CCAD = NO NETWORKING?!
I entered Cleveland College of Art and Design in Middlesbrough, England last September a student with passion i was excited about what they do and wanted to get away from school and realise my dream a little more in terms of becoming a designer.... i had my interview, got accepted and a few months later to that I won a scholarship to America something everyone seems to know about there but doesn’t know the full details... that’s not because I have a ego it’s because every moment I have spare I’m trying to push my dream of being a car designer.
Ever since my first stint at Xenophya design last October my blog has been at the tip of their tongue when I’m on the internet, when actually since I got my laptop in January I have never updated my blog at college but it keeps cropping up as though they have something against networking and showing the world what I’m getting up to. One scenario was a few weeks ago when one of the lecturers was talking about a sudden movement in the class where a lot of us have started bringing in our own laptops into the studio, the first word emphasised was blog and hinted at me, how we should not be on our blogs all the time! I’m sorry but when that was mentioned then, the actual last time I updated my blog was something like the 25th August when I went to London.... so c’mon how can you create a argument against me being on my blog when there’s no argument to be had. I updated it two months ago when I wasn’t even at college it was the summer holidays!
I’ve started to come to the thought recently that actually I work a lot differently to most tudents, I use social networking in a big way to keep up to date with trends, twitter keeps me active with up to date industry news... even more up to date news than the dormus magazine that gets pushed under our nose... twitter is live, it’s as and when it happens! twitpics that are shared through twitter are inspiring and sometimes when you open them up and you’re in the middle of a project it can help ignite a idea... within seconds I can get advice from professionals on my ideas and concepts. So if I can get in touch with industry professionals directly and get a response in a matter of minutes how is this not a useful tool that I shouldn’t be using as a design student?
I have Skype also and I admit I never use it at college but what the hell if I did I could call people up for advice in a matter of minutes again with a response that in some circumstances could allow me to get on with a project quicker than waiting 20-30 minutes or on SDS a whole afternoon for a lecturer to come and see me. I don’t understand why seeing me on my blog is the crime of the century at college, the education system really needs to get with the times. With me having a central online hub it’s given me the confidence to work harder and be proud of my work whilst also getting noticed by some great people, through networking I’ve meet up with the likes of Joe Simpson and Mark Charmer of the Design Movement Bureau, Eric Galina Editor of Car Design News, designers at Nissan Europe, been able to visit Benedict Radcliffe at his Studio last week, Skype chat with Brook Banham a designer in San Francisco which is kind of ironic because I remember some of his artwork shown to the class in my first year at college... [Podcast download here] and the list goes on. I’m not going to stop networking and reducing the conversations and opportunities I’m having by switching services off and going back into the stone age of career building.
Ever since my first stint at Xenophya design last October my blog has been at the tip of their tongue when I’m on the internet, when actually since I got my laptop in January I have never updated my blog at college but it keeps cropping up as though they have something against networking and showing the world what I’m getting up to. One scenario was a few weeks ago when one of the lecturers was talking about a sudden movement in the class where a lot of us have started bringing in our own laptops into the studio, the first word emphasised was blog and hinted at me, how we should not be on our blogs all the time! I’m sorry but when that was mentioned then, the actual last time I updated my blog was something like the 25th August when I went to London.... so c’mon how can you create a argument against me being on my blog when there’s no argument to be had. I updated it two months ago when I wasn’t even at college it was the summer holidays!
I’ve started to come to the thought recently that actually I work a lot differently to most tudents, I use social networking in a big way to keep up to date with trends, twitter keeps me active with up to date industry news... even more up to date news than the dormus magazine that gets pushed under our nose... twitter is live, it’s as and when it happens! twitpics that are shared through twitter are inspiring and sometimes when you open them up and you’re in the middle of a project it can help ignite a idea... within seconds I can get advice from professionals on my ideas and concepts. So if I can get in touch with industry professionals directly and get a response in a matter of minutes how is this not a useful tool that I shouldn’t be using as a design student?
I have Skype also and I admit I never use it at college but what the hell if I did I could call people up for advice in a matter of minutes again with a response that in some circumstances could allow me to get on with a project quicker than waiting 20-30 minutes or on SDS a whole afternoon for a lecturer to come and see me. I don’t understand why seeing me on my blog is the crime of the century at college, the education system really needs to get with the times. With me having a central online hub it’s given me the confidence to work harder and be proud of my work whilst also getting noticed by some great people, through networking I’ve meet up with the likes of Joe Simpson and Mark Charmer of the Design Movement Bureau, Eric Galina Editor of Car Design News, designers at Nissan Europe, been able to visit Benedict Radcliffe at his Studio last week, Skype chat with Brook Banham a designer in San Francisco which is kind of ironic because I remember some of his artwork shown to the class in my first year at college... [Podcast download here] and the list goes on. I’m not going to stop networking and reducing the conversations and opportunities I’m having by switching services off and going back into the stone age of career building.
Monday, 2 November 2009
Thoughts, planning and adventure
Today, I decided to plan my whole life for the next 9 months, i've got books here on fashion, fine art as well as loads of design so I might as well put them into practise. I'm making space to do more stuff other than 'cars' and making space for me to use my more of my creativity. Also, i've slotted some time in there to try my hand at music production just messing around with my laptop but who knows where it goes... all these things inspire me and will hopefully transfer through to my work. Could be fun to see the way things turn out, stay tuned.
Tick has been delayed to Friday 13th and going to be purely retailed via myspace, so please head over there spread the love to me, the contributors, the whole tick team and keep posted on the whole tick movement as it happens.
I'm writing this as i head into college today, i've abandoned my huge backpack today and boombox headphones to have room to breath. No doubt without my laptop and tools i'll be accused of being 'on my blog' at college today.
What it feels like to just be able to walk into a shop buy a big cardigan and massive scarf, pay, walk out and chuck them on to keep warm i felt almost like a v.i.p that could do that today, it gave me so much self esteem and actually it was a creative process in itself many ideas about future retailing [that was sparked by a chat with Mark Charmer of Design Movement Bureau last week] i have barely any money left now though and just hope tick takes off so im going to pump all my time into that project to get it off the ground.
So no new sketchwork today unfortunately just a little rant and insight to what im thinking, me and my friend Chelsea are trying to keep our blogs up to date every day a little challenge we both got going on... i think she's winning at the moment though hahaha
Tick has been delayed to Friday 13th and going to be purely retailed via myspace, so please head over there spread the love to me, the contributors, the whole tick team and keep posted on the whole tick movement as it happens.
I'm writing this as i head into college today, i've abandoned my huge backpack today and boombox headphones to have room to breath. No doubt without my laptop and tools i'll be accused of being 'on my blog' at college today.
What it feels like to just be able to walk into a shop buy a big cardigan and massive scarf, pay, walk out and chuck them on to keep warm i felt almost like a v.i.p that could do that today, it gave me so much self esteem and actually it was a creative process in itself many ideas about future retailing [that was sparked by a chat with Mark Charmer of Design Movement Bureau last week] i have barely any money left now though and just hope tick takes off so im going to pump all my time into that project to get it off the ground.
So no new sketchwork today unfortunately just a little rant and insight to what im thinking, me and my friend Chelsea are trying to keep our blogs up to date every day a little challenge we both got going on... i think she's winning at the moment though hahaha
Saturday, 31 October 2009
London Round-up & Thoughts
Just a few sketches from my moleskine whilst around London this week, it was weird because in the fast paced paced city i felt more chillied out than what i normal am here kickin it back on the buses 4 hours a day. Allready planning my next trip down hopefully between christmas and new year lets see :)
So after i visited Benedict Radcliffe and the Nike 1948 Store i somehow eneded up in a starbucks in canary wharf, Benedict gave me a few cultural/lifestyle car magazines i had never come across before Ramp and carl*s cars and throughout all the cars ive drawn its always been me designing my own, i've donw very few obeservations so here i was just playing around with a really quick ballpoint of a intresting concept i found in ramp.
It seemed really diffrent in that location, i was probably the only standard class guy in the whole coffee shop, felt weird at first but was a pretty cool experience netherless suppose be get in them class divide situations a lot in the future.
I visited Seymour Powell, a Iconic british design studio for a quick chat with a designer there and it opened up a few things to me although i'm ahead in the game i need to continue and get even further. He didnt seem too enthusiastic in what i was doing and i got the impression as though i was waisting his time however more down the transport line, guys within the car design industry i have met on my travels get me, what i'm doing can relate to me on terms of where im going and the frustation of how i want to be out there right now.
Nothing comes straight off as someone quoted me this week "Rome wasnt built in a day" and i totaly understand that, ive been teaching myself since '03 to get to this point and all the way through just wanting to be recognised a little and profesionals to give me tips. I have that now, i'm metting some amazing people that are allready influencing my directions, my work and my next steps but what i have to sit down and reflect on is the design world for me after all?
The answer will FOREVER be yes!
no doubt though i'm going to think a whole ton about it all, i've had some great sucess so far and experiences but to build on that and be on top of my game i need the energy to channel through the fierce competition . So i bought myself this new book called 'NEVER SLEEP'
It seems pretty good, Two graphic designers from ohio describe the ups and downs and that massive transition grap they shout about on the back cover ^ and straight away with the title of the book being 'never sleep' it gives you a massive clue into how your lifestyle is going to be.
Its quite simple if i want to be a huge designer i need to move away, i have to be prepaired to live out of a suitcase the majority of the year and be in cities where the only people i know are the others in the studio with me, i have massive language barriers to get over... unless i start learning launguages now i've never been totaly great on the topic so allready i'm weakend down to England, America, Australia... etc i find it really hard to finalise ideas, i can sketch,sketch,sketch and sketch forever but when it comes to saying thats the one lets refine and make it i struggle something else i have to channel out very soon i need to expand on photoshop and artwork presentation techniques.
So i have a lot to do before im 'industry worthy' but allready at 17 my name is getting out there to some big names, i've travelled to motorcity, ive had around 2 months studio experience at Xenophya and im starting up my own digital publication tick i couldnt ask for much more at this stage really because i'm going places i never thought was possible until after university. you get out of life what you put in and i think im at a happy medium with that right now :]
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So after i visited Benedict Radcliffe and the Nike 1948 Store i somehow eneded up in a starbucks in canary wharf, Benedict gave me a few cultural/lifestyle car magazines i had never come across before Ramp and carl*s cars and throughout all the cars ive drawn its always been me designing my own, i've donw very few obeservations so here i was just playing around with a really quick ballpoint of a intresting concept i found in ramp.
It seemed really diffrent in that location, i was probably the only standard class guy in the whole coffee shop, felt weird at first but was a pretty cool experience netherless suppose be get in them class divide situations a lot in the future.
I visited Seymour Powell, a Iconic british design studio for a quick chat with a designer there and it opened up a few things to me although i'm ahead in the game i need to continue and get even further. He didnt seem too enthusiastic in what i was doing and i got the impression as though i was waisting his time however more down the transport line, guys within the car design industry i have met on my travels get me, what i'm doing can relate to me on terms of where im going and the frustation of how i want to be out there right now.
Nothing comes straight off as someone quoted me this week "Rome wasnt built in a day" and i totaly understand that, ive been teaching myself since '03 to get to this point and all the way through just wanting to be recognised a little and profesionals to give me tips. I have that now, i'm metting some amazing people that are allready influencing my directions, my work and my next steps but what i have to sit down and reflect on is the design world for me after all?
The answer will FOREVER be yes!
no doubt though i'm going to think a whole ton about it all, i've had some great sucess so far and experiences but to build on that and be on top of my game i need the energy to channel through the fierce competition . So i bought myself this new book called 'NEVER SLEEP'
It seems pretty good, Two graphic designers from ohio describe the ups and downs and that massive transition grap they shout about on the back cover ^ and straight away with the title of the book being 'never sleep' it gives you a massive clue into how your lifestyle is going to be.
Its quite simple if i want to be a huge designer i need to move away, i have to be prepaired to live out of a suitcase the majority of the year and be in cities where the only people i know are the others in the studio with me, i have massive language barriers to get over... unless i start learning launguages now i've never been totaly great on the topic so allready i'm weakend down to England, America, Australia... etc i find it really hard to finalise ideas, i can sketch,sketch,sketch and sketch forever but when it comes to saying thats the one lets refine and make it i struggle something else i have to channel out very soon i need to expand on photoshop and artwork presentation techniques.
So i have a lot to do before im 'industry worthy' but allready at 17 my name is getting out there to some big names, i've travelled to motorcity, ive had around 2 months studio experience at Xenophya and im starting up my own digital publication tick i couldnt ask for much more at this stage really because i'm going places i never thought was possible until after university. you get out of life what you put in and i think im at a happy medium with that right now :]
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Thursday, 29 October 2009
Great day in London Town
I was lucky enough to get the chance of visiting Benedict Radcliffe's studio today for tick however it turned more into a casual talk about each other’s careers rather than me interviewing him... haha maybe I’m just no good at this journalism business. Defiantly a cool guy has some great work, usually tends to create wireframe objects such as his Nike Air Max commissioned by Nike for their 1948 store.
It was totally crazy trying to find the Nike store, tucked down a side street I must of walked past it at least 5 times before i realised it was there, well realised I mean... I went into a clothes store around the corner to ask for directions haha what a embarrassment oh well.
There will be a article on Benedict in one of the tick issues maybe the launch one if I can slip it in, in time. Hold on tight for that but in the mean time if you’re not familiar hit up his website!
After this i took off to grab some dinner with Eric Gallina, Editor of Car Design News it really blows me away the respect I’m getting and the opportunities I have to meet these guys and just being in London this week has made me defiantly want to come here for University now, well meeting with a designer at Seymour Powell tomorrow and then off home :) I need to come down here a lot more often!
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
I'M BACK!
Hey guys haven’t been around for a few months [even though my lectures have it in their mind I’m on my blog 24-7 ughh] so I’ve been spending a whole lot of time creating my digital magazine called tick. What is it? Tick is a resource, a inspiration magazine for people in the creative industry... a new definition, the proper definition of a art magazine anyway enough about that and more about what I’ve been up to :)
Well I’ve almost digitalized all my work EVER! that sounds so geeky but everyone needs to do it and keep it up to date, now wherever I go I carry a hard drive the size of a book and it has all the work I’ve ever done imagine how handy and useful that is?
Here is my first drawing back in 2003 well I think it’s my first I don’t remember but it’s the earliest I can find, load of rubbish haha, around then I was 11 and had the obsession of buying every car magazine out there AutoCar & Auto express weekly then like Top Gear, Car, Evo monthly where the hell I got the money from I don’t even know ahh whatever it was a investment anyway I wouldn’t be where I am now without the inspiration and I repay them.... by not buying that type of magazines anymore haha! Well why go buy them when you've got websites like Jalopnik and a whole load of online media sites that you get the info for free, it’s fresh and gets the news to you quicker than magazines.
You all should go check out my friend Chelsea Kirchoff, really great person i miss her so much i love her work especially the robot piece ^ I need to get a big AO print of this to put up on wall one day, she just graduated from CCS for Illustration head over to her blog she's working hard at the whole internet thing and updating her blog every day. BLOG // TWITTER
I went down to London and met the guys at Movement Design Bureau Joe Simpson & Mark Charmer in August. Wow I met Mark yesterday again and every time we go for lunch and have a chat my mind explodes personally I don’t connect with no one my age I’m a social outcast but it’s like everything clicks it’s so inspiring discussing how the future is going to go, in terms of the urban landscape turning into this digital world how people are going to get around and the challenge of the high street vs. online stores... just think for a second how is the high street going to look like in 10 - 20 years as the internet develops even more?
Also go grab the November issue of Wired, Joe as a article in there sharing his vision of how the city will change :)
I set up a out&about mini blog to track my adventures at thoughts whilst I travel so head over and read through, subscribe and come talk to me on twitter I’m going to update a lot more, college teachers can stick it about my blog networking and recording my journey is getting me industry respect and places i would only of dreamed of less than a year ago, even after Detroit, twitter is a essential tool for anyone with determination and ambition.
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
The end of the supercars? the end of the petrol head, the end of lusting over supercar exotica, Lamborghini, Ferrari, koenigsegg, Pagani to name the least... every go fast yestersecond cars look ever imminent to vanish, like Jeremy says 'an ending'
Do we really want to lust over cars like the Aston Martin Cygnet in the future?
Small films like this remind me of my childhood mistake of not attempting to skateboard or take up any extreme sports.. i love watching the guys do ther thing!
i did have a toy story skateboard or something when i was about six haha but i wasnt determined enough.
Been invisible for a few weeks but i'l be back soon, developing a new series of sites because what started of as a portfolio blog has gone into my inspirations so i want to try and break them apart again with a launch of a online media site. more info on that as i unveil it :]
all systems go when september turns round i hope
Friday, 24 July 2009
Saturday, 18 July 2009
LDN
Visiting london eventually, been anxious to get down to the capital for neally a year and half now! meeting up with some influential people, guys from the movement design bureau, a internship interview and studio tour of the Nissan Design Europe!
Droping into Seymourpowell and hemingwaydesign also.
Hopefully i will have a camcorder on hand to track my journey in the capital any questions you want me to hit these guys with drop a message and i'l hopefully be able to fit it in. :]
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Droping into Seymourpowell and hemingwaydesign also.
Hopefully i will have a camcorder on hand to track my journey in the capital any questions you want me to hit these guys with drop a message and i'l hopefully be able to fit it in. :]
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Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Check out the Podcast hosted by the guys at cardesignfetish, based in Detroit.
Podcast - Across the Pond
Myself and Joe Simpson of The Movement Design Bureau as guests to discuss car design, design education, and the perception of American automobiles within England and Europe.
Have Twitter? Connect with us.
Dali Dimovski, Dustin Shedlarski, Joe Simpson, Me
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Cardesignfetish Podcast
Podcast in the pipeline this next week hosted by the guys at Cardesignfetish looking forward to talking to some fellow petrolheads but also hearing that American Accent!
Going to be intresting to talk to some detroiter's and find out what its like living out there right now.
I love Detroit from my time there, it wasnt all Glitz&Glamour like most cities and i guess thats why i fell in love with it.. its raw passion for anything with wheels and well its history all i need to do is mutter the word Detroit and any auto guys out there know what i mean!
Hit you up with the podcast once its published
Head over to CarDesignFetish!
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Going to be intresting to talk to some detroiter's and find out what its like living out there right now.
I love Detroit from my time there, it wasnt all Glitz&Glamour like most cities and i guess thats why i fell in love with it.. its raw passion for anything with wheels and well its history all i need to do is mutter the word Detroit and any auto guys out there know what i mean!
Hit you up with the podcast once its published
Head over to CarDesignFetish!
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Friday, 19 June 2009
Ryan Leslie ideation
Just some quick sketchwork put together exploring ideas for a luxury vehicle based on Ryan Leslie, more info soon.
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Riversimple ideation sketch
Found a form that i'm going to start and run with, using the current oval butterfly door feature on the vehicle. Setting myself the challenge of creating a fashinable riversimple vehicle that will hopefully appeal to youth and the majority of city business people who would eat up the whole platform concept.
Thursday, 18 June 2009
update
At xenophya studios at the moment doing some summer experience, been out of designing over the few days kind of stepped away a little scared that i've lost my skill. Happens every so often, need to work past it and get on, it feels almost as though your runing low on creative energy but you dont know where to run with it to recharge them batteries.
So looking the problem in the face tonight is going to be a big sketchnight, Ryan Leslie theme work, riversimple project and the odd here&there rough sketchwork to get me back in the game.
Expect a sketchwall update tomorrow morning.
At xenophya studios at the moment doing some summer experience, been out of designing over the few days kind of stepped away a little scared that i've lost my skill. Happens every so often, need to work past it and get on, it feels almost as though your runing low on creative energy but you dont know where to run with it to recharge them batteries.
So looking the problem in the face tonight is going to be a big sketchnight, Ryan Leslie theme work, riversimple project and the odd here&there rough sketchwork to get me back in the game.
Expect a sketchwall update tomorrow morning.
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
riversimple styling exercise
Tweeting through my phone yesterday morning to the founder of The Movement Design Bureau (@charmermark)about him attending the launch of the riversimple urban car. A revolutionary open source Hydrogen car, with the blueprints available to anyone to build one of these vehicles its going to be thrilling to see how much impact this has on the industry over the next few years.
I felt some excitement and hope that this may be a vehicle which resolves the styling issues associated with such a car, with all these planet saving cars i'm drawn in to what could be done if the world was willing to change, looking to the future. Car manufacturers are slowly taking this outlook due to goverment holding them up from disaster, Just the oil companies are standing in the way being fearful of losing business to a competing technology, try there best to not allow it to happen.
Specifically the documentary film 'Who Killed the Electric Car?' springs to mind about the GM EV1 which is kind of ironic because if they didn't kill that program maybe they wouldn't be bankrupt today.
However where was i... so i find interest in how the future is going to turn out but like many of these plant saving vehicles i want to give them a huge brown paper bag to wear with shame and unfortunately the riversimple car again missed the huge styling aspect.
I decided to have a shot at it myself, below are a few rough ideation sketches which im going to clean up later. I found it really hard to have creativity with such small space and hopefully i will get some good work up tonight or tomorrow on this.
These are just really rough, i want to put a body of work together re-designing the aesthetics based around the riversimple concept. Here i just jumped straight in with a ball point but I'm thinking of making a real project out of it and researching it professionally before taking it further.
I love the motoring concept of riversimple and there determination to make this work, i hope people reading this don't get the wrong idea im just not totally convinced on styling of such a car and my opinion is that they wont sell on a great scale until they appeal to everyone in a fashionable manor.
Head over to Re*move the blog site of The Movement Design Bureau, A interesting resource for anyone in the automotive industry, check out there coverage of the launch below.
Sunday, 14 June 2009
Ryan Leslie
Verging a little way from the norm here i normally just post up my work few details about what im up to right now etc.. However, RYAN LESLIE IS COMING TO ENGLAND!
I love his music, his fashion the whole style and brand image he has around him most of all the fact that he keeps his supporters up to date in real time, through www.ryanleslie.com he is a truly inspirational person, he is definatly one of my hero's now & someone i look up to! Would love to do a concept design around this guy it would be the ultimate project for me!
Love the work Mr.Leslie, hope you check out my little blog i got going on here and hopefully get to see you in Notting hill!
I love his music, his fashion the whole style and brand image he has around him most of all the fact that he keeps his supporters up to date in real time, through www.ryanleslie.com he is a truly inspirational person, he is definatly one of my hero's now & someone i look up to! Would love to do a concept design around this guy it would be the ultimate project for me!
Love the work Mr.Leslie, hope you check out my little blog i got going on here and hopefully get to see you in Notting hill!
Ryan Leslie/Fabolous Vid Teaser from Ryan Leslie on Vimeo.
Thursday, 11 June 2009
Grand Bentley
Over the easter holidays i spent two weeks experience at Xenophya Studios during the final day i spent some time putting a sketch board to be shown to a designer at bentley, i almost went for the typical choice of doing something with the GT model but thats a pure, modern car allready.
The Arnage has been around for a while and i thought i would have a shot at it, Bentley just launched a promo site for the replacement model of the Arnage.. The Grand Bentley "the epitone of bentley" although nothing is really given away im excited about finding out how the car will turn out. Will it become a rival to the Rolls-Royce Phantom?
Even though were in deep recession/recovery it seems Britain is gaining its place as a luxury vehicle manufacturer with the Aston Martin 0ne-77 super car being launched lately, are there any other british brands.. well any other brands out there in the world going to rise to the ultimate luxury trend?
Today i left college on summer break - Three Months! Most of it will be spent at xenophya studios as my base for my new position at Mac-Motorcyles, a few weeks a go i was talking about taking inspiration from the new Prodigy album ... Unfortunatly i havent done much work on that, been tied up with college comitments and my laptop breaking the other week hasnt helped in anyway.However im planning to get everything up to date over the next few weeks, a lot of sketch development maybe some video production over the summer, so a lot of great things going on and content to check out very soon :]
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Over the easter holidays i spent two weeks experience at Xenophya Studios during the final day i spent some time putting a sketch board to be shown to a designer at bentley, i almost went for the typical choice of doing something with the GT model but thats a pure, modern car allready.
The Arnage has been around for a while and i thought i would have a shot at it, Bentley just launched a promo site for the replacement model of the Arnage.. The Grand Bentley "the epitone of bentley" although nothing is really given away im excited about finding out how the car will turn out. Will it become a rival to the Rolls-Royce Phantom?
Even though were in deep recession/recovery it seems Britain is gaining its place as a luxury vehicle manufacturer with the Aston Martin 0ne-77 super car being launched lately, are there any other british brands.. well any other brands out there in the world going to rise to the ultimate luxury trend?
Today i left college on summer break - Three Months! Most of it will be spent at xenophya studios as my base for my new position at Mac-Motorcyles, a few weeks a go i was talking about taking inspiration from the new Prodigy album ... Unfortunatly i havent done much work on that, been tied up with college comitments and my laptop breaking the other week hasnt helped in anyway.However im planning to get everything up to date over the next few weeks, a lot of sketch development maybe some video production over the summer, so a lot of great things going on and content to check out very soon :]
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Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Great new motorcycle company & i'm part of the team!
Mac Motorcycles was a project that was running during my first time at xenophya studios, Autumn 2008 I had the privilege of meeting Ellis Pitt... The client for the project, a friendly design professional and design council associate.
Ellis gave me a big privilege by inviting me to take part in the design meeting, as the team where choosing four designs from a sketch wall of amazing proposals put together by Mark and Ian from Xenophya.
When meeting Ellis we traded business cards and I remember his words clear as day, 'we should keep in touch you never know what may come of it'... Sunday being a normal day, except the exceptional weather we've been having! i got a call and was shocked at the opportunity I was being offered!
I'm now part of the team as a Research designer! :D
I truly can’t believe how things have changed so much, without going to CCS I would never have got the opportunity with Xenophya for a few years and then wouldn’t be employed in a new exciting motorcycle brand that everyone is talking about!
