Busy is good, I like busy. However at the moment, it’s beyond that – I have work coming out of my ears. I shouldn’t complain because I’d much rather it be this way than nothing at all, but multi-tasking is hard, so hard. The shot above is the first from a great shoot with Rotherham model Sammi Andrews. It’ll probably take me a while to unveil the other shots from this shoot because I’m currently working on a number of other projects so I suppose this is nothing more than a taster for the time being. In the mean time, you might want to check back regularly to see what other things I have been doing whilst I’ve been locked away.

As mentioned in my previous post, my intentions from now one are to integrate photos from my Flickr account directly through to the blog. Not only is this aimed at improving flexibility and efficiency, but hopefully this will improve the loading time of the pages as I have noticed the blog can sometimes suffer due to the huge amount of content it is trying to load.

If anyone experiences any problems with the new gallery features, please let me know and I’ll try and sort it out a.s.a.p

As a quick test, the mini gallery below is my most recent flickr uploads from photoshoots I have worked on so far in 2010.

At last, the edits for the Emma Nicole Cooke shoot are complete. There are photo-sets from two more shoots coming very soon, so it’s definitely worth checking back.

You may notice the way in which I set these photos out will differ from time to time over the next few weeks. I’m not 100% happy with the way the blog is set up for displaying groups of images so I’m tinkering as I go along. It’s looking most likely that I might link all image files up to my flickr account in the near future, which might not mean a lot to you but it should make things a hell of a lot quicker and more efficient for me.

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Due to all the other projects and jobs I have on, the Retro-Iron shop has been neglected for a while. However, with a brand new season underway I decided it was about time to add something fresh. The shop already featured one subbuteo inspired design and although its not the most popular product, I decided to pursue the idea a little further and incorporate more Iron kits from past generations.

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After a bit of a summer break and a few weeks of quiet time, everything seems to be picking up pace again. This is the first of many new projects over the coming weeks and months. A Modern Fairy Tale is a fashion show aimed at raising money for charity which will take place in mid September. The show is hosted by hair stylist, Kirby Blythe (of Hair by Kirby Blythe) and features a lot of contributions from local businesses as they hope to raise a lot of money for a good cause.

In typical Kirby fashion, I was given a tight deadline (of just 4 days) to come up with the design for the promotional materials with quite an open brief. Luckily we’ve managed to come up with something which she likes and seems to fit the event quite nicely.

Rubyhall Solutions seem to be doing their very best at keeping me busy these last few weeks. Having completed their logo and stationary just a matter of weeks ago, they have now been back for promotional flyers and a set of mail-out cards which will be attached to the SIM cards that are mailed out to clients.

This is still a working progress, but as it’s something completely different from anything i’ve done before I decided that I wanted to post it right away. For this years art exhibition, I was asked to create a design that was inspired by Manga.

Like most people, when I think of manga I think of the usual Anime stuff, mainly the iconic eyes… but we had absolutely no imagery to go with so this design was all about playing with the typography and layering it up to try and create something dynamic. Personally, I’m loving the 3D effect in parts of the type. It’s just seems to finish it off nicely.

Model & Stylist: Leila Ali
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MUA: Charlotte Walton
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