Fantasy Portrait

Fantasy Portrait

I was recently photographed by Yves de Contades photographer and Director of International Life Magazine, as one of forty Creatives from the UK’s advertising and design industry. The brief was to create our ultimate Fantasy Portraits.

The results are an intoxicating mix of the quirky, the clever and the downright bizarre, from a digital robot, a spaceman bouncing through Piccadilly Circus to a dragon slaying ninja. I genuinely feel honoured to have my ugly mug on the same walls as such inspirational designers including Simon Waterfall (ex Poke CD & D&AD president), Tom Hudson at Lowe and former Pentagram Partner David Hillman.
The portraits are now on exhibition at Lost Boys International, Atlantis Building on Brick Lane. All are welcome to view between 9am and 8.30pm.
Here’s a video from the Private viewing where you’ll get a glimpse of all the portraits

HTC re-design is live

Me and the team at Head have been busily working away on lots of exciting projects over the last year, and they’re all starting to make their way onto the world wide web. Here’s one of our latest projects for HTC. We’ve just re-designed the products section of their Global site. You can read all about the project here

Favicon gaming

Fuck! This is pretty mental – Play Defender inside a website’s favicon (that’s the icon that sits in the browser address bar). This could start off a whole genre of Micro gaming – Just think..PacMan, Pong the possiblities are endless…though you might need a magnifying glass to play.

The tale of the winking car

Instead of a metal or plastic body, BMW’s latest concept, the GINA Light Visionary Model, drapes a flexible fabric material over a moveable wire mesh frame, creating a nearly seamless surface that can alter its form at the whim of the driver.

If you’re feeling frisky, you can raise the tail like an angry dog, bulge the fenders as if you’ve injected them with steroids and reshape the sides of the car to transform it from a sleek roadster into an intimidating racer.

Check out the winking eyes at the end of the video! Amazing!

Create fonts online

Created by the designer/engineer Rob Meek, FontStruct is a free font-building tool that lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes. You arrange the shapes, called “bricks”, in a grid pattern, just like tiles in a mosaic.

I’ve been playing about with it for a few days and it really is a great tool for designing type. It’s really easy to use and is very intuitive. Another great online tool to sit along side Photoshop.com and GoogleDocs!

Transform your Wii into a digital whiteboard

Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. A multi-ovation demo from TED2008.

TED Talks always delivers some really interesting presentations, but this one really blew me away!
You can get the cool software from Jonny’s site here

Gimme officially launches!

Gimme logo

Well after a few months of blood, sweat and social networking I’m pleased to say that we’ve finally launched Gimme! Gimme is a Wishlist Application which plugs into your existing network of friends. Currently available on Facebook, Gimme is the only App that allows you to find and add the stuff you want, and show it off to your friends without having to leave Facebook.

Here are some of the main features…

Integrated Search Find what you want easily by searching thousands of Online retailers all within Facebook
Birthday Alerts Lets you know when your friends birthdays are coming up and what they want
Themes Customise your list by adding a birthday, wedding, or just a funky looking theme
Editors Picks We scout the net looking for cool products for you to add to your list
Price Comparison Buy your friends what they want but at the best price!

We’ll be adding loads more features over the coming months, but in the meantime if you like the sound of it why not try it out…

Get Gimme

Here’s a few screenshots of the app, we hope you like it!…

Profile page
Show your friends what you want

Search
Search thousands of online retailers within Facebook

Gimme list
Drag’n'drop to organise your list

Editors Picks
View the latest products and trends from around the world

Get Gimme