card board

About 6 months ago i bought some Senheizer CX 300 earphones from Amazon, they cost around £20 and they are good earphones. I ordered them as they were the right price with the right reviews, what i did not expect was the amazing packiging they came with.

here is a good flicker photo set from spjwebster showing why 6 months later i have not thrown the box away and it is still on my shelf.

its perfect, they fit perfectly like the earphones have been cast in card bored and when you unpack them you are excavating them.

then when you do unpack the earphones each layer has a slightly different shape, they are like stencils. I like making stencils and there is something emensley satisfying designing and cuting a good set of stensils, this appeals to that art nerd with a craft knife in me.

It evoked a memory in me; did you ever use lined paper that have holes pre punched into the margin, ready to be sliped into a ring binder? did you ever absent mindedley use that hole to draw circles all over the page underneath? just me then. Thats what these cardbord cutouts make me think of. they are less “eco friendly” and more just plane fun craftiness in my eyes.

any other fun packaging you have seen? leave a comment.

ps this is what the old packaging looked like (boring)

Dear Album: Jack Penate, Everything is New

Dear Everything is New,

Remember when we went out and drank indie clubs dry of Red Stripe dancing like fools in check lumber jack shirts and skinny jeans? good times! i haven’t seen you in a while and now you are hanging out with a different crowd, i was ready to hate you for deserting me who else will drink Jamaican beer with me?
What did I have to worry about you done good man, still made me happy and sad, dance and shout just like old mates do. listen just ease up on the cave echo, i know it makes you sound like an omnipotent god but grates after a while! so doesn’t matter you have gon back to your roots were still cool aren’t we? you are still as catchy just in a different, more echoie, way.

Vic

 

Web Designer mag

I see that i have been featured in Web Designer Magazene along with a whole load of my course mates, if you have found your self here because of that hello! OIC is currently in production, the testing site is www.oicgame.co.uk and will be finished with in the next couple of days.

in the meantime can I make sure people from Web Designer go to ScreenGrab our grad show which is being held in London in only 3 weeks! You are all invited

I better get back to work!

OIC game

little update of OIC, my major project. its up online and full of bugs if you want a look go  here

www.tinyurl.com/oicgame

im in the process of getting oicgame.co.uk which would be nice

i will keep you posted

BeatPlex.co.uk

its cool. believe me. i have spent hours “beating” around the bush.
its the best drum loop/sequencer flash play toy thing. it allows you to upload your own .mp3 as well so  you can make unique drum loops!

http://beatplex.co.uk/

corrugated television

WILL I LOST MARKS?

taken from this tweet that was posted as the deadline loomed for our dissertation

danatello: @joeflintham ive concluded that hardly anyone knows the difference definitively i‘m placing all my chips on red (effect). WILL I LOST MARKS?

New ipod shuffle advert!

new ipod shuffle advert

the new ipod advert going for a different angle. i think it will work for them.

hand made business cards

they have more than meet the eye as they react to uv light. “more than meets the eye” card has written in UV ink EMPLOY ME whilst the “employ me” card had written in UV ink “more than meets the eye”

think these may be to high concept for business cards but ok for a last minute thing.

iBrew

leaked photoes of the new iBrew and iBoil