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about character design + illustration + animation

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Stumble and I love Your T-shirt

This weekend I discovered Stumbleupon.com and week before last I found iloveyourtshirt.com

Stumbleupon is a really inspired idea: you can review sites and tag them, so you add to the collection. There's a Stumble button you press and it brings up any website that's been reviewed by someone else in one of your preferred categories eg 'bizarre' or 'arts'. I posted some of my pages and friends pages and also played for a while and almost every site that I Stumbled on was worth visiting. It's certainly bringing a small but steady stream of people to visit my site too.

iloveyourtshirt.com - you can simply upload a photo of a t-shirt you want to promote and it goes straight onto the front page. Doesn't necessarily stay there long as someone else soon bumps you off. It's good though! I've noticed countries that don't normally show up appearing in my stats. Even when your picture has got bumped right down to the 10th page, it still gets click throughs : )

Labels: iloveyourtshirt, promote, stumbleupon, t-shirt

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Talking of T-shirts

Talking of T-shirts, thanks to Walid at Trusted Places for sending me a free one. Slogan "love all trust a few" nice. Logo reminds me of Ghost Busters (I think it works, association with a friendly bunch in a city).

I've written 4 reviews on there now! It's fun and addictive and you can save up reward points for a special card that can let you take your mates out for a half price meal! I think this website's going to be a big hit. I wonder if I can buy shares? Maybe if I save up enough reward points?

Labels: logo, reward points, slogan, t-shirt, trusted places

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The Washing Machine of Life

I just created a birthday e-card.

I started it last year, playing around with the Twirl Tool in Illustrator. I thought I could make the rainbow letters just swirl into shape. So I exported various stages of 'twirls' as swf files from Illustrator and then into Flash. It turned out ok but not that exciting... I liked the abstract shape created when all the letters were totally lost. After a long time I went back through the files and I found an unfinished one that went quite fast. It had this mesmerising washing machine spinning effect. So I played about a bit with it a little bit more and it turned out like this! The Washing Machine of Life.

I've decided to show characters and designs that I do, as I go along on here and put the t-shirt link on too. So here you go:

Labels: animation, birthday, e-card, Flash, Illustrator, swirl, t-shirt, tee, tool, tshirt, twirl, washing machine

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