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Association of Illustrators- Images 31 Exhibition and book launch

Congratulations to Øivind for having his work selected for Images 31 which is produced by the AOI. Øivind's work was selected from over 1,000 other illlustration submissions and has been included in the Books section of the Exhibition and Images 31 book. Images 31 is the 31st annual edition and is considered British illustration's most important document.

The AOI was established in 1973 to advance and protect illustrator’s rights and encourage professional standards. The AOI is a non-profit making trade association dedicated to its members’ professional interests and the promotion of illustration.

Unfortunately Øivind is away in Norway at the moment taking part in his annual wooden longboat endurance holiday (!), so Simon and myself went along for the private view at the London College of Communication.

'The Little People introducing The Little Gardeners' Prints


Presentation and Award giving



'The Little People' book on display.
The exhibition runs from the 6th-28th of July, details are here

Checking out D&AD New Blood 2007

It's that time of year again, where the new design graduates come to London and show their work to the masses. Being two whole years since we were in the same situation, we wanted to see what the new wave of designers had to offer. Apart from D&AD getting too big and too saturated there were some really good pieces of work which stood out from the rest.

Away from all the viewing, Si and myself bumped into an old tutor and got chatting about what we have been doing with LO-TEC for the past two years and how much we have achieved. This led to an invitation back to our old Uni in Plymouth to give a talk to the current students on setting up your very own design studio. Which is very nice. So keep watching this space for a LO-TEC seminar near you.

Just a little screen shot from the Funkdup article about myself and Lo-tec............check it out for yourself at www.funkduplondon.com

And in the flesh....

To follow with the rebranding of our main website, we've got some new promotional material.

This is how it looks. Since last September we've been busy working with a variety of clients who stemmed from 100% East but now comes our 1st marketing push so we can expand our creative horizons! Exciting times are ahead

The Lo-tec pitch for the olympic logo - i like the real one though to be fair!!

Check this out...........

To add an air of mystery to my post i'll say simply that you may see this Lo-tec image around if you're a lucky person, and it will be appearing under slightly different guises in several other places . VA (visually aware, as Tom would say)

Pixel Rings for Sale from Lik + Neon

A long time since I posted on the blog but im pleased to say that PXL rings are now available from Lik + Neon, 106, Sclater street, London, E1 6HR ( just off Brick Lane). There are 3 styles available, visible above and each comes in a variety of sizes to fit most fingers! The rings are also neatly packaged in a custom cut mini cardboard box. If your in or around Brick Lane, check them out in Lik + Neon. If London's out of the question drop me a line oli@lo-tec.co.uk

Sleeping (Less) Rough on BBC Midlands Today

On Friday the 24th I made a trip up to Birmingham to film for a feature on the Sleeping (Less) Rough bed. The report was shown to the Midlands region of the UK on the BBC evening news. Hopefully you can view the video here

Many thanks to BBC Midlands Today and the Noise Festival team

Snippet in Icon magazine

This should have been posted up ages ago (sorry).... but we were mega busy preparing for 100%East at the time it was published (issue 40). How we smiled to have made it into a design publication! It's the first of many featurings hopefully.

Noise Festival

My Sleeping (Less) Rough and Wax Light projects were selected for exhibition at the Noise Festival at the Urbis in Manchester last month.

About Noise- "NOISE is not your typical arts festival. It has no physical location rather the central hub of activity takes place on the NOISE website making it the first 'virtual' festival of its kind in Europe! You can live anywhere in the UK and it is free to take part.

The best work will be selected for media showcase by some of the finest creative professionals in the UK including Peter Saville (Image-making), Mark Eley of Eley Kishimoto (Fashion), Danny Brown (New Media), Stella Vine (Fine Art), Wayne Hemingway (3D design) and Anthony Wilson (Word)."


So at the opening of the exhibition I got to meet Wayne Hemingway and also found out that I had won the opportunity to do a Noise Dream Job- two weeks work experience at Hemingway Design!

Noise had also arranged for two of the Sleeping (Less) Rough beds to be trialled by two Big Issue In The North sellers. The feedback has been good and I will be passing the results to a possible sponsor so that these beds can get closer to becoming made on a larger scale.

As a result of Noise my work has received press coverage on TV- 'Raw Creatives' (shown on the Community Channel) and in the Big Issue In The North.

Many thanks to all at Noise, Emily from Big Issue In The North, and Liam and Joseph for testing out the beds.

http://www.noisefestival.com/
http://www.bigissueinthenorth.com/

Lo-tec at 100%East

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Hello, first I would like to apologise about the lack of internet communication over the past month.... (BT took their time in getting us online, grrr)

Above is a montage of several hundred small photos taken at 100%East before the masses of crowds came.

Since 100%East we have all been working on a variety of projects. One project that came from 100%East should reach fruition in March at locations including Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery and BAFTA.....

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.

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.

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!

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!

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

photo test

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