The project at hand

I found myself a new little project of doing up this old school Raleigh. I found it in Rah's parents hay shed, and they were quite happy with me having it to work on. I had Rah's brother in law to look over it and help me work out what is needed to be done to get this beauty back to its full glory. I have since bought and replaced the back tyre and inner tube which I was stoked only cost me $35. And for the last week I have been derusting and polishing up all the chrome on it. Next job will be to spray paint the mud guards white again, and I'm hoping that will make a huge difference. Also looking at buying some brand new raleigh pedal blocks which are one trademe at the moment, and keeping my eye out for either a black or white seat for it.
So I am pleased to have this to keep me busy while I wait for course to start back up, because I have lost all motivation to do any design either for course or for fun.

Holga-riffic

Finally managed to get some photos up that we have taken with our holga lens. Its quite tricky to use but we still getting some good results and its fun playing around with it and finding what its capable of doing. 

Letter press printing is freakin awesome

As I was trawling Christchurch's opp shops for something cool to display my portfolio in, I was severly distracted by the tray loads of these Letter press printing letters. They had so many different fonts and point sizes. One day when I have earned my big dollars I will buy a letter press.

Sagmeister

Look what I got for my birthday, just the coolest book about the coolest designer. Ever since I heard of Stefan Sagmeister and saw some of his work I was dying to get my hands on his book. Ive only just started reading it but I know already that this book will be what I turn to when I'm in need of some inspiration…love it!

Thank you to my brother Mike for the awesome gift.  

Photo of the week Part:9

This is a shot I took last weekend out at Maungati Rahs family home. These flowers were almost a flouro red and really stuck out. I was stoked cause the picture captured the colour quite well. 

Lazy Tom

Sorry I haven't updated lately, just been flat out with end of year portfolio this week. But I will blog my arse off this weekend with some cool stuff...so yeah.

Life after course

I applied for another job last monday for a place called Waterford press who are looking a Junoir Graphic Artist. I got a reply today saying that they have recieved my application and that they will consider it next week and should hear back from them then. I've got my fingers crossed extremely tight  for this job, it would be an awesome one to get. Still haven't heard back from Speedy Signs, I can only guess no news is no news I would like to hear anyway.