October 2008
37 posts
Gavin Strange and the JamFactory - Josh Spear,... →
The lovely Mr Matt Gierhart ran a news story on me for the joshspear.com site, thanks Matt!
Big-up Gav @ ghdesign.studios! →
The very very kind Gav (nice name) over at ghdesign studio posted a super nice blog entry about my forthcoming talk at the Apple store Birmingham next week, thank you dude!!
WatchThe very talented Sundeep Toor created this sweet lil’ 2D Halloween Animation of Droplets!!
It’s great to see them come to life, cheers Sundeep!
“HTML… which is, of course, short for Hotmail… you may not have known...”
– Yesterday Rich was just a hyper-talented artist, today he’s that PLUS a web master, as his quote proves. You should definitely be following him on Tumblr too!
Made on a Mac with Gavin Strange
“Roll up, roll up, come see the graphical treats that Gavin has to offer. From Websites to Skateboards, Toys to Illustrations, Gavin Strange aka JamFactory and now Senior Designer at Aardman Animations has used his Mac throughout his career to produce his varied body of work. Hear him talk about his creations aswell as seeing the real end product in-store.”
I’m very very...
Droplet in Rotofugi →
Louis Harboe kindly snapped some shots of Droplet livin’ it up in Rotofugi, the rad toy store in Chicago!
“Urban Outfitters ordered Droplets a week ago, they got 50 cases!”
– Andy Woo from Crazy Label just gave me that news! I can’t believe it, Urban Outfitters have ordered 50 cases (800 Droplets) for their store, I’m over the moon!!! I wonder if any of them will make it over to the Bristol store!?
“fella do you sleep? you have got like a thousand different things going on at...”
– The awesomely talented Chris Malbon from super-agency McFaul
“I LOVE IT. I actually saw it on the internet today and was madly impressed....”
– Dessa from Doomtree saw the print I did the other day and told Abjekt, a mutual friend of both of us, how much she liked it! How stoked am I!? DOOMTREE!
DROPLET - designertoyz →
I can’t read French very well but it’s sweet to see Droplets living it up euro-style!
100 Web Designers to follow on Twitter →
Woop woop, I made #98 on the list!
The story behind the new Apple MacBook's →
Jonathan Ive really is a god of design. Check out this video about the brand new beautiful MacBooks. This is why I love Apple products.
“Stephen Fry (stephenfry) is now following your updates on Twitter”
– Well, it’s not everyday Stephen Fry reciprocates your Twitter follow request!!!
Suicide Kittens on The Guardian blog →
Awesome - ‘Suicide Kittens’, the 4mations game that uses the characters I designed (‘General Tiddles’) makes an appearance on The Guardian blog!
Computer Arts - Ten tips for logo design →
A couple of months back I wrote an article for Computer Arts magazine on Logo design, and I’ve just seen they’ve put the article online, so have a peep!
“Top tips from the world’s best designers, with Tokidoki, Pixar and Gav...”
– I can’t believe that my name is next to Pixars, on the front cover of the new issue of Computer Arts Projects mag, talk about dream come true!
A new,shiney, fuzzy factory of jam
It’s been quite a while since the last JamFactory website overhaul but this one is long overdue!
I just don’t have the time anymore to maintain a blog, flickr, website and everything that goes with it, so I’ve decided to use the power of the tumblr system to handle all my news updates and a nice flash engine that pulls in all my latest work directly from Flickr!
Coupled with a...
Mega Roundup of 60 Cool Custom Designer Toys →
Well stoked, My custom BUD ‘Loco’ made the list, as did Pone’s Droplet custom!