A couple of years ago I used to spend a fair bit of time on DeviantArt.com uploading my work and discussing others' work. I was suprised to receive a cheque from them this week! I had sold 6 prints of my Lion artwork (above), plus received lots of comments and favourites. This cheered me up greatly knowing that people know have prints of my work! Admittedly I don't think this is my best work ever, but the folks over at DeviantArt seem to like it!

The view from my apartment; the main piazza of Pesaro.

I have now moved out my temporary room that was in the studio, and am living in an apartment in the centre of Pesaro. It's kind of a studio flat, because I have my own kitchenette in my bedroom, but I share a bathroom and living room with three others. It's in the second oldest building in Pesaro, and I have an amazing view out of my window!



Now I'm settled it's finally sunk in where I am and what I am doing! But in a good way, it's great so far! The studio have given me a bicycle and I am cycling everyday to work which will be good for my fitness! Although today it has heavily snowing all day, so cycling may not be so pleasurable anymore. I honestly can't believe the weather, it is warmer in the UK! Hopefully it'll get a little warmer in the coming months. Oh and today my designs for 5 t-shirts went to the printers, and some designs for a new bag went off to the client. I will post more about my experiences at the studio later this week, when I have sorted out my internet!
Ciao tutti!

The closed entrance to 'Rotti', a designer shop in Pesaro.

Hello all! I have been at Marco Morosini's Studio for a week now, and I'm just enjoying my first weekend here. It has been pretty tiring because the days are long because Italians like to have looong lunches so I don't finish until quite late in the evening. But other than that it has been really good so far.

Other than Marco himself, there are only 3 others in the studio: a graphic designer, a web designer, and another lady. They all work very hard as there is a lot to do, so I've been helping on all sorts of things. We've been finishing off an ice-cream recipe book, which involved some tweaking of indesign layouts, a bit of Italian to English translation and cleaning up some photographs. Also I worked on some developmental ideas for a Makeup stand. They are a regular client and wanted some new graphics for a new range of makeup. Also I am starting to work on developing a new design for a t-shirt range for Marco's own brand, Brandina The Orginial.

As I said before I am living in the annex of the studio which is great, but it's a little odd only walking three paces to work! So I am looking for a room somewhere, with not much luck so far, but hopefully something good will come up next week. See you all for now! Ciao!

My desk at Marco Morosini Studio after week one.

It's been a while since I posted something here, but I've been busy sorting myself out for Italy. I am here now temporarily living in the annex of Marco Morosini's Studio. It's really nice and am excited to start working tomorrow. My Italian is coming along slowly, but still having to say "Pu ò ripetere per favore" every now and then. I just cycled over to the supermarket and bought some amazing stuff! Italian food is so delicious! I will post again next week when I've started working and properly settled in. Ciao!

A very Merry Christmas to everyone!

My year out in industry may have started off slow but things are good at the moment. I have several placements lined up for next year in Italy, which I am very excited about! More to come on that as it happens; I will be in Pesaro, Italy from beginning of January, working at Marco Morosini's Studio.

Currently I have just finished my fourth week at the How To Spend It Magazine, at The Financial Times in London. I am staying on for a couple more weeks up until Christmas, as I'm really enjoying myself. It is a small-ish team of people: Editor, two designers, two picture researchers, a subs team, and some admin people, but everyone is very friendly and they all work suprisingly hard! Everyones on the go all the time, it's a busy time of year I guess! I've been helping out around the office with various issues, as at the moment they are working on one every couple of weeks, rather than monthly. I have been doing some page layouts for the January and February issues; it'll be very exciting to see my work in print! I've also been to a few photo shoots, a couple of product shoots at studios and a portrait of a couple of art dealers.

My sketchbook (above) is looking a bit worse for wear, nothing a bit of tape and sprucing up can sort out, and hopefully it'll last me until the end of year and develop as I go on. It's been really good to see the magazine industry and they way the world works outside of university. I look forward to my last couple of weeks at the FT and going to Italy (if not slightly nervous about that!)

These are a couple of little prints I forgot to upload a while back, they've just been sitting on my radiator... They were from the Pop-Up Letterpress Shop on Carnaby Street in Design Week. It was a really nice place to see some old letterpress equipment and have a go yourself. These are a couple of the image letterpress blocks they had.

After the new tube map caused a stir recently this is quite a nice solution: read his blog post if you like.

Sorry I have not been particularly active on my blog! I have been extremely busy with all sorts of things. I will try to update this more to let you know of everything that is going on in my life. In the mean time, this is book I own which was inspired by the current season.

This book which I've had on my shelf for a while but never really paid much attention to is Ken Garland's 'A Close Look At Fallen Leaves'. It's a simple book which a simple story. All the leaves shown in the book Ken collected on a street in Northwest London in a hour one Autumn morning. The leaves are photographed and displayed actual size. He found the leaves fascinating, and wanted to show them as a collection of beautiful objects. There's not much more to it than that, but this simple idea acknowledges what is usually a depressing time of year as something more than just that.

My current sketchbook. 1/8 through, hoping it will last my whole year out. It's already taken a battering however...

I just had to jazz up this boring birthday card. Only slightly though.

I thought for a change, I would post something different from all the design-related stuff I have on here.
I love music and one of my hobbies is to DJ. These are a couple of mixes I have done recently. Have a listen!


Error *001 (Approx 40 mins. House/Techno) Download



Error *002 (Approx 1h 10 mins. Minimal/Techno) Download


Back to more design posts tomorrow!

Had this for a long time, but this is my bible at the moment. Great book, great advice from Adrian Shaughnessy; well worth a read! Plus what a beautifully designed book!

I am now slowly moving back home. I've brought about half my stuff back now, and more in the coming weeks. Until I'm officially out of London by the end of August. It's a sad time, I'll miss London and everything it has to offer, but I am very excited about my year to come, and all the potential opportunities. Being back at home now (without a job - poor) means I have a lot of spare time on my hands. I have updated my site as you've seen. I'm also in the process of updating my 'marketing pack', as I've heard it been referred to (ie. my cv/pdf/portfolio .. general promotional stuff).
As well as this, I am keen to continue to develop some more of my projects. I Love London is interesting and any comments would be greatly appreciated, as I plan to develop the my ideas into something more polished and professional. I also plan to continue with the Time Machine project and make a book format of the sculpture, so watch this space.
I am also keen to do some freelance work, so get in contact with me if you need anything done. Bye for now!