Kidrobot, the world’s premier designer and retailer of limited edition art toys and exclusive apparel is set to set up a Concept store at Selfridges Oxford Street from January 22 to February 21, 2009 located in the wonder room. Kidrobot merges urban street trends, fashion, and pop art to produce limited edition, collectible toys and apparel.

As mentioned in my previous post, I’ll be starting the NEW YEAR on a busy note as usual working on a few colaborations with Chelley Jones Designs, Crazy-Creation and Raw-Dezign on a few art and media projects. Will also be starting the year off with a few web design , 3d animation, branding and graphic design projects for a few big names in the clothing, automotive and entertainment industries.

Well, out the window goes my New Years resolution to work less :o)

Keep watching the blog for more updates…

Have a few interesting web design projects and colaborations with Chelley Jones Designs I’m working on that I’ll hopefully be completing and adding onto the blog in the next few weeks so keep your eye lids peeled, you wouldn’t want to miss it.

Hen

Contracted by Palm Hotels & Leisure Consultants who specialise in business consultancy and management of hotels and Lodges in Southern Africa to design and develop a website with content management, booking system and seo strategy for Echo Travel Lodge, a 3 star lodge located on the Trans Kalahari highway in Botswana.

Provided the client with SEO strategy, photography for the website on site, content management system, bespoke reservations and bookings system, website design and development.

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Interactive flash actionscript website development and design for a London based contemporary artist.

I was contracted by Bruce Chidovori, a leading contemporary artist on the London scene to develop a website for him that would help promote his work, allow him to update and display his work online through the use of a custom built bespoke content management system developed in house for Deegan Art.

The website had to be interactive, engage to the user while being easy to navigate and usable. In designing the website, I brought together different aspects linked to Bruce such his cultural heritage, interests, likes and dislikes and merged them together creating a fusion of pleasurable aesthetics.

I also produced a corporate identity for Bruce to use with the promotion of his work and website, designed banner ads which were featured at his gallery viewings in the heart of London and promotional flyers and material.

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Canon Toshiba Copiers

Full and complete website design and development, flash advertising banner creation, corporate branding for Cut Price Copiers, part of SOS Systems who are registered resellers of Canon and Toshiba full colour photocopiers.

I was contracted by a Crawley based Creative Digital Agency to design and develop a website for Crawley based company SOS Systems that would help promote and drive online sales of their premium full colour Canon and Toshiba photocopiers through the help of targeted search engine optimised website pages developed to help drive organic search traffic.

Cut Price Copiers is the e-commerce trading name for SOS Systems Limited based in Crawley West Sussex. They were founded in 1985 and have approved dealerships with Canon, Toshiba, Infotec and KIP, gaining an excellent reputation for prompt and efficient service at very competitive prices.

As a good measure in my personal time, I visualised, designed and developed a corporate brand logo to be used with the website that would compliment the site and give the website and arm (Cut Price Copiers) of SOS Systems brand recognition.

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Desperados Beer - A Taste Of Liberty

Lead flash and actionscript development to drive sales in the UK for Desperados Beer. Desperados Beer is a globally recognised tequila flavoured beer sold in over 50 countries worldwide and distributed by Tiger Beer UK Ltd.

Working with lead London based Creative Agencies Hero Digital, and Agency Space (who provided all the creatives). I was contracted as the lead developer to help drive the UK online marketing assault for the french owned beer brand Desperados Beer through the development of interactive flash micro-sites targeting 18 to 34 year old beer drinkers. The website features competition forms for exquisite getaways to lucky Desperados Beer drinkers, photo galleries of Desperados Beer venues and promotional nights and a host of other cool features available and some yet to come. To stay posted and for more information on the Desperados Beer brand, visit their UK site online hombre!.

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Useful World is an online ecommerce site based on the magento platform which specialises in electric and useful home products. I was approached by the client for help with rebranding their company image, re-designing their website to give a fresher more unique look.

My role was to visualize and create a logo for the company which would be used as their brand name on stationery, online sales and banners, design a colourful website to compliment their logo. I provided the client with psd files of the design which they intergrate onto their existing website based on the magento platform.

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It’s 5:22am and am wondering what I’m still doing up and why I can’t get a wink of sleep.

Seeing as I’ve got a new app on my iPhone which connects onto my work blog, I thought I’ld give it a whirl and submit my post while in bed.

Determined to set strides and show the competition how it’s really done, the creative digital agency I work for {Evolutions} has evolved and has gone mobile with the launch of the mobile site and the iPhone specific website with all the bells and whistles courtesy of their newly found investment (me of course!).

Embracing the iPhone with the launch of the Apple iPhone 3g, and on a secret bid to weed the office of Sony Ericsons and Blackberry’s {you know yourSalvs}, I was set a task of developing a super lite pocket friendly iPhone specific website which would deliver a few selected video portfolio pieces to be shown to prospective clients and friends browsing the site on the Apple iPhone.

Working closely with our Creative Director {www.creatific.com - who I may add is absolutely anal about pixel perfection.} I developed the Evolutions iPhone web site featuring the very best in video entertainment, google maps with directions/gps navigation(iPhone 3g), sliding menus, pixel perfect resolutions optimized for the iPhone and a hint of ooooh! lahh! lahhhhh!.

Sounds good doesn’t it? Well, it sure is. See it for yourself by visiting the evolutions {www.evolutions.co.uk} home page on your iPhone and let me know what you think.

Well, I’ll be off to bed now, night night, rather, morning morning.

Blogging from my iPhone.

;o)

It’s been 2 whole weeks since I’ve had my Media Temple grid service hosting account and so far I’m loving it. Although I did have a few problems with my Urchin stats from the start of my service (500 error page), a (mt) technical assistant was able to have the issue sorted out within 24hrs of when I sent out an email to them which is quicker than my other hosting provider (not naming names) has responded to emails.

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The one touch install is just brilliant, saves you a lot of time and effort configuring files especially for users who don’t have the knowledge to manually install the relevant sites or blogs offered but would like to use them.

Being a web developer, it also gives me a lot of control over what I can do with the websites I build. It doesn’t give you as much control as you’ld have with a dedicated server but you definately get a lot for the money you pay and for most people, it definately gives you more control than you can shake a stick at. I’m eagerley anticipating the launch of the (cs) Cluster-Server in Q4 of 2008(any day now) which will be the successor to the grid-service and hopefuly most of the issues currently on the grid-service will be ironed out.

Another plus for the grid-service is it allows you to host upto 100 domains in one account without any extra charges and every one of those domains can have a database each, allowing you to host all your sites, your friends sites and even client sites if you wanted too. I don’t know about you, but I have a number of websites which are hosted by different providers and for the same services (often less) that i get with the media temple grid service but are a lot more expensive. On average, I’m paying near enough the same amount of money if not more every month for the hosting of one domain than I am for multiple domains on the grid service.

I took a gamble when going for the media temple grid service as I had read a lot of bad reviews online about website downtime and other issues, but liked the look of the site so much and wanted to give their control panel a go. So far I haven’t experienced any downtime on my site (hoping it stays that way) and the customer service has been absolutely phenomenal, a lot better than expected.

Media Temple grid service if far from perfect, but which hosting provider or package is? For the amount of goodies you get with the (gs), although I find the account centre (control panel) slow, $20 dollars a month is a bargain and well justified.

For now, I’m loving the hosting and (mt) definately get my vote.