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Wellington Spring

So you would think that because it's spring and the weather has improved with sunny warm days, the all familiar sight of broken umbrellas around town would have disappeared... well guess again! I must confess I was quite shocked to come across the latest image while walking up to work the other day. Even though we had two rainy days over the weekend, I didn't think the wind would be misbehaving. Will this be the last image of the season?

Pineapple cupcake

iPhone screen

Master and Margarita

Spring 2010

Cuddle

Prime Minister's Emerging Scientist of the Year Award

UPDATE: I had previously posted this entry but I was asked to remove it during the voting process. Unfortunately, Mark wasn't selected to go on to the final round but we're both really happy with the poster anyway.

For the past couple of weeks, I've been helping out my friend Mark Hunter on the design of this scientific poster. He's competing for the Prime Minister's Emerging Scientist of the Year Award... wow! what a mouthful. We didn't have much time in reality since we both were busy with our jobs and what-not and we found ourselves meeting up at lunch time a couple of times to talk about the progress of the poster. We're both quite pleased with the result and hopefully Mark can go on to win the prize.

Working for the MacDiarmid Institute has given me the opportunity to be part of some really cool projects. Even though I'm not really contributing with scientific knowledge, it's quite satisfactory to know that I am contributing in a way through my designs. This poster is aimed at high school students and if at least one of them understands the principle that is being explained, I can say that we did a good job!

By the way, not only is Mark waiting on the result of this competition but he's also waiting to be a dad for a second time any day now. Whilst working on the poster, we were expecting at any moment to get a call from Jillian (his wife), fortunately we were able to finish without any major events getting in the way.

Kudos Mark!

Sketch dump

Vector Illustration

Just a quick vector based illustration for a new iPhone 4 wallpaper.

Sketch

Creattica - Snowboard entry

The snowboard designs I created a few weeks ago have earned an entry at Creattica, a website that showcases some of the best works of designers and photographers. I'm quite pleased to know that my design has been selected. If you haven't seen the previous post where I show the snowboard designs, you can view my entry here.

Wellington Winter 3

Yet another casualty on the ongoing battle between the Wellingtonian winter and the inhabitants of the city. When will this massacre ever end? The umbrellas have no way of surviving this war, this one didn't even make it to a rubbish bin. At least we've been having good days too and this type of incident isn't an everyday thing.

Bent Eyewear

Talk about kiwi ingenuity! New Zealanders are always proud about the fact that they can come up with any solution to a problem by just using number 8 wire. Well, this case is not far from this same statement. When a pal of mine became bored with the fact that he could only find the same old boring sunglasses, he decided to make his own. He won't be sporting the same pair as other thousands of people are wearing, his will be unique.

Correy Wyatt actually makes each pair of sunglasses by hand, painstakingly bending the wire precisely into the shape that he has previously envisioned. The results are amazing! Not only are they a piece of art, but they are functional art and they are unique. No pair is exactly the same to any other. I'm quite happy to say that Correy asked for my help to come up with a logo for his new brand of eyewear. He'll be sending some designs to the United States in an attempt to position them in the US market.

I believe that the name of the brand really says everything, Bent eyewear, just simple and to the point!

Nanocamp 2011

This is the latest illustration I have been working on, it will be used as a postcard in order to get high school students to attend the Nanocamp event. Events like these are really great since they give kids the opportunity to have an up-front hands-on experience with science. It goes on for a week and it's completely free! There's a selection process of course but being able to see what science can offer you as a career or simply having the chance to actually go into a lab and learn about nanotechnology is just awesome!

The MacDiarmid Institute is really making an effort to reach young people and to promote science in New Zealand. This is just another of their programs that has been very successful.

Jennifer Eccles

This is a picture from a shoot we did quite a while ago. I thought I'd play around with it a bit and noticed that I have forgotten a lot of tricks regarding retouching techniques. Luckily there are a whole bunch of tutorials on youtube that anybody can watch and learn these techniques in no time.

Thanks again to Jennifer Eccles for helping out in this shoot ;)

Snowboards

The ski fields are open and what better way to go down the slopes with one of these cool designs on your snowboard. I owed Rachel a birthday present and it occurred to me that there was no better present than making her a skin for her old snowboard. She wasn't intending to buy a new one soon so dressing up her snowboard with a cool design was the way to go. She was so stoked that she doesn't want to use it! I'm really glad she liked the design, after all, it's an illustration of her.

Lein saw what I had made and was so impressed that he asked for one. He went for the second design although being a dutch man, I thought he would go for the orange one. My favorite one is definitely the orange one. The design just flows completely with no boundaries what so ever which in my opinion gives if a better sense of freedom.

I wish I could hang snowboards all around the house now! hahahaha

Yummm...

Almost 5 pm and all I can think of is a tall glass of milk and a couple of these muffins. That's what occurs when you're sorting out pictures and you come across events in which food has been served. As a photographer for the event, you don't get to enjoy much of these pleasantries unfortunately. On the other hand, doing a photo shoot is always fun and it doesn't feel like work.

Wellington Winter 2

This is the second bin which somebody has kindly adorned with an umbrella. I suspect it might have been a girl but that's just me jumping to conclusions. I'll keep a sharp eye for other possible cosmetically enhanced rubbish bins in the city.

These incidents haven't gone unnoticed and have made the local news. Well... to be honest, they were talking about a new umbrella design which makes it a bit sturdier. Here's the intro to the story. Special appearance by Jennifer Eccles! If you want the full story head on over here.

Wellington Winter

Once again we start seeing the familiar broken umbrellas in the public rubbish bins (trash cans). I think this winter has been wetter than previous so I have honestly been trying to stay inside. That well may be the reason why I have only seen only one of these iconic images so far. On a good winter day (bad weather day really), it's not unusual to walk down the street and come across two or three prime examples of what the wind will do in Welly.

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