Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Lo-tec at 100% East



So after months of planning and organising September the 21st eventually came and we launched Lo-tec Design Collective to the masses in the form of our first collective exhibition at 100% East.

Held in the Truman Brewery on London's Brick Lane during London Design Week, 100% East is a 'multi-disciplinary international showcase for young, up-and-coming designers and companies'
Armed with 200 boxes we arrived on the Monday to set-up the show, having elected to create our own space from scratch creating an installation that would both be visually exciting and complement our varied array of work. Boxes were our vehicle not only due to their aeshetic and versitile qualities but also for the fact that they would be reusable after the event- a flat pack exhibition so to speak.

Pics during the setup-


The show was a huge success and we attracted a lot of interest and we would like to thank all the people that came and that we met during the four days of the exhibition, we gave away over 1000 posters (which, if you have one, take a photo of it in situ and we'll get them posted up on the site) and had a lot positive feedback both on the stand and the concept behind Lo-tec.


100% East was a great experience for us, it provided us the oppotunity show what we can do collectively on an installation and we have already begun to organise the next one.... this time in Bristol and with a brand new selection of work so keep coming and checking the blog and site as further details will be posted as soon as we know them.

Saturday, May 06, 2006

Bastard Video Podcast


Hey everyone,

I found out some good news the other day, my Bastard animation has been included on the new Channel Frederator episode. What is frederator I hear you ask? Well it is a video podcast and it has been around for a while now but it shows some really good cartoons, old and new every month. So if you have a new swanky video ipod or even an old one check it out.



Thats all for now, enjoy.

Friday, March 31, 2006

The Pavement Feature


Here are some scans of the Sleeping (Less) Rough bed that was featured in The Pavement magazine (click to enlarge). I met with the magazine's editor Richard on Monday as The Pavement want to approach companies to get funding and the bed into production. Richard has some good ideas on raising funds so watch this space!

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Colin + Oska @ 10 by Ten Festival Exeter



Some good news! Hurrah! My film Colin and Oska is being shown at the 10 byTen festival in Exeter on the 11th of April 2006 at the Exeter Picture House. As you can guess I'm quite chuffed as this is the first festival i've got any of my films into. If you want to go and view some lovely independent work there are more details of the festivals website-

10 x Ten Film Festival

Hope to see you there.

Crayon Advertising

I spent Thursday helping on some animation work for Crayon Advertising, for a future BT promotion. 8 meg broadband is coming your way!

Friday, March 24, 2006

Feedback on Sleeping (Less) Rough


On Monday night I took a Homeless Bed down to The Strand to show it to the homeless who go to the soup kitchen near Charing Cross Police Station. I spoke with 5 homeless and shown them the bed, demonstrated how it works, and two (Dave and Roland) tried it out and loved it. Everyone was interested in it having already read about it in issue 10 of
The Pavement, which is a monthly magazine written for the homeless. The Pavement are helping with the approach to charities and organisations that will hopefully be able to take the bed forward into production. It was a bitterly cold night and just being out there for an hour was more than enough for me I'm sad to say...
I've also entered Sleeping (Less) Rough into DesignBoom's Shelter In a Cart Competition, which closed a week ago

Saturday, March 11, 2006

photo test


This is my Rasterbation. 6x8 A4 sheets.
Image is from Daft Punk's Interstella 5555.