About my Blog Design

November 16th, 2009

When I started designing the blog my initial idea was to have a 50s horror movie style design. I had recently worked with Illustrator Stephen Baskerville who had worked on a character for a website client for their website and logo, so got him to illustrate the design.

Inital Concept Sketch

My Inital Concept Sketch

Stephen has been working as an Artist and Inker since the late 80s on comics such as Transformers, Web of Spiderman, 2000AD and a host of other publications. You can view the related gallery below to see some examples of Stephen’s work.

Once the drawings had been done I got Martin to stitch them together into the design that stands here now.


Google Wave

November 15th, 2009

Splash!

Google Wave invite arrived this morning.

Have logged in and taken a brief look round and dispatched Invites to some of my friends. Still got about 5 left so if you ask nicely I can send you one.

Will be updating with my impressions when I get round to using it, but its weekend, the weather is crap and if I don’t get the kids out the house and burn off some energy then I will go stir crazy.


UGVX

November 9th, 2009
My Xbox Live Avatar

My Xbox Live Avatar

Martin asked me to set up a new site to replace the old www.ugvx.com website.

The idea was to have a website that would be a directory that ties up your Twitter Name and your XBox Live Gamertag. The site follows all Tweets on Twitter that are tagged with #ugvx and displays them using the appropriate images from Xbox Live.

It was my first time working with the twitter API and it was remarkably easy. After Martin did a design for me the site was up and running in its current Beta form within 2 days.

Check it out at www.ugvx.com.

Oh and you can find me on Xbox Live with the Gamertag of Chowny. My profile page is here.


Blog officially open!

November 9th, 2009

Hello and welcome to my blog.

I’ve unleashed this upon the world as a way to showcase some of my design work done through my Web Design company. It will be a semi-work / semi-personal blog where I will write about notable stuff that I am busy with or other things non-work related that take my fancy.

If I’m not keeping it up to date at any point, its probably cause I’m working.

Cheerio