I can’t imagine how this could interest anyone apart for myself and maybe my Mum but I thought I’d share anyhow.

Here in the UK it’s the school summer holidays so I quite often have a little company when I’m working.

My five year old son Reef who tells me he wants to design stuff like his Dad likes to sit and draw on the desk beside my own. He loves to use my old elipse and circle guides that I got when I first went to collage at the age of eighteen.

Back then it was pre Mac so we used these things quite a lot and before we started college we had to label all of our kit with our names.

Being into the graff scene at the time I chose to make my labels like the sticker tags that I used to grace the center of Sheffield with. On taking a closer look I saw that on my Linex elipse guide one of the fellas had survived to this day.

This sticker must be about twenty one years old now and considering the amount of use the guide had it’s survived the rigors of time pretty well.

I so remember labeling all of my kit at the time as Linex elipse guides when new had a really strong smell of baby sick.

I’m glad to say that this has now faded, although my memory of it hasn’t.

Just a reminder that today is Blog Action Day.

Something worth chirping about.

I’ve added a new section to my portfolio called “Identities” where I’ve started to show some of the logos I’ve made for different projects.

Above are some that I did for a social networking application for the lovely people at Renkoo who are based in sunny California.

I’ve recently installed Google Analytics on my site which is a revolution for people with sites made in Flash as for the first time it allows me to get detailed stat’s about visits to my site.

Enjoying the novelty of checking the referrals I spotted a couple that I had to take a look at.

The first one was a list of “101 Inspirational Artist/Designers Links” and on reading down the list There I was at number 77 amongst some very good company. How very nice of them.

The other was from a fantastic urban/designer toy site called Archetoy who gave a link to the interview I did over on DesignFeedr and had some very nice things to say about me here.

This is a real gem of a site if you’re into designer vinyl and on thanking these guys I got to find out that there may be some interviews on the horizon with some of the real big name toy designers.

Whilst you wait for those you could always spend the chunk of a day reading through all the articles like I did.

Thanks Chaps:)

If by any chance you’d like a desktop wallpaper version of the “Bird in Hand” image to grace your monitor, you now can by simply heading over to SmashingMagazine.

Along with some very good company it’s been picked as a desktop calendar for the month of August.

You can download the calendar version but if your not in time you can also get the original version (sans calendar) plus all come in a number of sizes to suit your screen.

How jolly convenient is that?

As proof of my own pudding I have it on my own screen at the moment and I’ve found the heart makes a rather good place to to keep my current project.

Just a thought:)

I just got an email from super talented illustrator Charlene Chua  who is also an author on illustration portal Illustrophile to let me know that I’ve been featured on the site.

I’m really pleased to be featured on there as Illustrophile is one of my favorite web sites and is one of the first sites I visit after checking my emails.

Thanks Charlene:)

I recently chatted to all round nice guy Youri from the design/illustration portal Designfeedr about character design, freelancing and moving to a far off land.

You can read the interview here but be sure to check out the rest of this fantastic site that is now planted firmly in my bookmark bar.

My old pal Sugarnuts was good enough to tell me that my blog has been doing some strange things and on checking it out found that there were a few bugs in the version WordPress I was using which conflicted with my server and made for Blog Voodoo.

To fix it I’ve upgraded my blog which seem to have worked but I’ve still a few creases to iron out.

So if you spot anything amiss, please give me a shout.

Over on Mojizu.com another of my characters has just been voted “Moji Champ”.

This time it’s Gassy Lassie, a little girl who likes to share who incidentally resides on my blog header at the moment.

If you’re into character design in any way head on over to Mojizu.com and check out some of the awesome characters by some great designers. If you sign up you can set up your own profile, vote and submit your own “Mojis”.

Here’s a link to my profile.