Glastonbury Festival 2011, Worthy Farm, Somerset

It’s a crazy mixed-up world within the 9 mile walls of Worthy Farm, and I wouldn’t have it any other way!

So I survived my maiden voyage to Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts 2011 and I must say that I’m still completely blown away by the experience. Yes, there was rain, and yes, that did mean rivers of mud and mountains of poo flowing from the Portaloos, but if anything, these things only made the experience richer. It brings a certain camaraderie to the crowd. A unity that sweeps across all areas of the festival and raises spirits even further.

I’ll post more later about the cool, amazing and downright twisted parts of Glastonbury, such as the fire-breathing, lightning-spewing Spider in Arcadia, and the pre-apocalyptic dystopian wonderland of Shangri-La. For now though please enjoy this picture that I took of a cool looking bloke on Pennard Hill enjoying the sunset over Pulp’s gig on the Park Stage. I don’t know who the guy is but I did like his hat!

A day in the life of an Audi driver – Amazing Video

Put your pedal to the metal!

So I don’t know about you, but this here robot is actually a bit of a petrol head. While I’ll quite happily watch a game of football, cricket, or at a push, rugby, I’m not massively into ball sports. This is mainly because I’m not very good at them. What I am good at, however, is motorsport. Read more »

The Pitch – The Game of Graphic Design

Quickly!! Only 60 hours to go!

Everybody loves a good board game don’t they. I’ve got fond memories of playing games as a kid and the fun was seemingly endless. From The Game of Life, Coppit and Cluedo, to those frustrating family sessions of Operation, the times were all good.

Unfortunately for my family, playing Operation was the closest I ever got to being a Doctor (sorry Mum). I might have been a bit more inspired to work hard at school and aim to take the Hippocratic Oath, but my medical career ended when I threw a strop for not being able to successfully remove that flipping slice of bread from the stomach in Operation! Now, I’m not in any way suggesting that the demise of NHS should be blamed on MB Games, but just imagine what life could be like if they’d made the ‘Bread Basket’ procedure a little easier. Fair play if you ever succeeded. Bask in the glory of your well deserved 1000 points. Read more »

NUTS & CO Packaging Design

NUTS & CO. is a premium purveyor of Middle Eastern delicatessen with a sumptuousy simple and elegant packaging design style.

I spotted this selection of packaging quite a while ago on one of the many design blogs that I read, so it is a little old and you may have already seen it before. If that’s the case, then I’m sorry. I will endeavour to find you all some more up-to-date stuff in future. Or at the very least, I’ll try to post things as soon as I spot them rather than saving a draft and leaving it to fester in the back-end of my blog, gathering virtual pixel dust for all eternity. Read more »

It Came From The North

So, I’ve finally found a little time to post some more! To be perfectly honest, I’ve never been great at ‘Time Management’ and a quick flick through my ‘Record Of Achievement’ from big school shows that every year, without fail, I quite sincerely wrote “Next year I will aim to manage my time better and to apply myself more”. Well, the thought was there anyway! The aim was spot on, but I somehow never hit the target. Many years later and I’m still to achieve that GTD ‘mind like water’ state of organisational bliss. One day though, I promise…

Anyway, enough babbling. Here we have the portfolio of Brett Kellett, a thoroughly decent bloke that I met at Hot Bed Press, the excellent open-access printmakers’ workshop in Salford, Manchester. Now I won’t lie. Brett is a good lad, but the fact that like me, he’s also from Yorkshire, drinks Yorkshire Tea and likes a decent pint of real ale means that my opinions may be biased. You should probably read below and then pop over to his website to make your own minds up.
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