I have a new phone. Its pretty spangly.

This is me testing out on the go blogging. Just in case there ever comes a time when I think of something so awe inspiring and important that I simply must publish it on the world wide web there and then.

I can live in hope.
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stumped.

this time round i've got two weeks to answer a brief [well, 1 week and 3 days left now] but it seems the more time ive got to get work done, the harder it is. the idea is to catalogue everything. well not exactly everything, but everything within certain confines that i can set. once ive collected all of these things they have to be catalogued or organised in some way which i imagine should be relevant to the confines.

i have no idea what to do.

i listed all of the books dvds cds games and videos that i have on a few shelves in my room, and im photoshopping a sort of mindmap of them and finding ways to link them all together, but it doesnt look very good and i dont really know where it's going.

i guess what i want to do is something related to consumerism and waste, maybe about the throwaway nature of clothes nowadays, somehow linked to the poor conditions in which sweatshop workers make them.

meh.

tragedy in the fog.

this is the first part of a zine that im putting together to inform train passengers and commuters of the legacy of the forgotten lewisham rail crash of 1957. ive got a couple of really beautiful old newsreel report films which have influenced my visual language in a big way for this work. i love the film noir aspect that comes out of a lot of the footage of the crash. this is the back page of the zine, designed as a sort of poster which you only see once you have unfolded all the inside parts of the zine. i hope that by starting with this, the least important part of the zine [in that its purely aesthetic, not much going on literacy-wise] then my style will develop and improve when designing the more crucial parts of the zine.

interrupt.

this is the rest of the intervention project i did. [the first bit was the benefits poster] for the first of my other two interventions i bought some fortune cookies from LIDL, unpackaged them, removed the notes from inside the cookies, replaced them with my own notes, and returned them to the shop. the reason i did this is because i don't like the boring ambiguity of all those messages [in a similar way to horoscopes] and so all of my messages are a play on taking the ambiguity a big step further. they read as follows:

[Insert Fortune Here]

You will have 1/2/3 children with
your beautiful husband/wife

You will find great success in the
design/construction/media/retail industry

Your husband/wife/partner can be found
where you least/most expect it

Look for the positives in your recent loss of
job/a relative/money/possession

A house/flat/cottage in the city/suburbs/countryside
could be the perfect place to settle down.

Look after your friends/family for
they are most dear to you

It is time to stop the smoking/drinking/junk
food and take up golf/tennis/jogging

Your efforts/laziness at work/home will be
noticed and you will be praised/punished

Your friends appreciate you for being the
funny/clever/reliable/outgoing one


For the second one i wanted to take a look at the value of money in the current economic climate [it may sound clever, but i actually know shit all about the economy]. so i figured the best piece of graphic communication to interrupt is the banknote itself. with a simple stamp on every note i come across, my message has a fast and wide circulation. the message was spend it all at once which for me, worked on two levels, one encouraging the holder to go out and spend money in order to stimulate the economy and save our local businesses, but also as a general life lesson to be more reckless and spontaneous with your money, and enjoy spending it.


i've been stamping notes for a few days and intend to continue for a long while as i rather like the idea. as unlikely as it may be, if you ever do come in contact with a note stamped with spend it all at once please please please please please please please please please please please contact me, id love to hear from you!

yeah mate a bit of mixing on the side.

when i forget that i have more important things to do, i like to pretend i'm a dj. here's one of my mixes. download it, listen to it, share it, spit on it. do whatever you like with it basically.

megaupload link

this is the tracklisting.

* 1. 26 Bsslines / Benga
* 2. Cocaine / Youngsta
* 3. Dubstep Dreams / Benga
* 4. Midnight Request Line (Digital Mystikz Remix) / Skream
* 5. Way of the Dub (Caspa Remix) / N-Type
* 6. 9 Samurai / Kode9 & Spaceape
* 7. Cockney Flute / Rusko
* 8. Night Bus / Burial
* 9. Ritual Murder / Tes La Rok
* 10. Misunderstood / N-Type
* 11. Cockney Violin / Caspa
* 12. Jahova / Rusko
* 13. Bona Vida / Cauto
* 14. Eastern Jam / Chase & Status
* 15. Some Way Through This (Skream & Plastician Remix) / The Black Ghosts
* 16. Cockney Thug / Rusko

derek conway mp

here's a play on a benefit fraud poster ive been working on for an intervention brief. derek conway is the disgraced tory mp for bexley and sidcup who claimed a ridiculous amount of expenses as pay for his two sons who were supposedly his researchers but actually just blew thousands of taxpayers £££s on uni life and running their own westend clubs. for some bizarre reason conway's still the mp, he's just been ordered to pay back fines from his wages for the next year or so.

you know the advert with the fat chav coming out of her council house to do her daily bit of benefit fraud? yeah its that advert but with conways face in the target and a few tweaked words. i first saw this poster on a phone box in peckham, but the plan is to search across conways old bexley and sidcup constituency to find a phone box there which is plastered with the same ad, and cover it over with my pseudo-activist propaganda thus making the location of the poster relevant.

some finished fonts.

here is the finished zip font which i actually kinda like



If you like my zip font you might like this jockstrap font [hah!] by moreismore


it's available to download here