Pixel Pimps Highlight Reel
Pixel Pimps Highlight Reel
Posted July 25th, 2010 by admin with No Comments
Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
The LollyPop Challenge
Posted April 19th, 2010 by admin with No Comments
The Challenge has been set, my young padwan mean Gene has decided to step to me in an all out battle to the death. Well not really to the death, for a lollypop. We are setting up a series of daily challenges to test each others illustrations skills and along the way boost our iStockphoto portfolios: Che & Gene
FIRST BLOOD
Challenge number 1 was to use just one swatch… I did plan to use a gradient swatch but decided black and white was the safest option… Gene had similar thoughts… While I took my Illustration to Mexico, Genes inspiration came from Japan.
First image to 10 downloads on istock wins
Heres what round 1 looks like…
Mexican Sugar Skull Vs Japanese Geisha Girl
Vs 
WATCH THIS SPACE MORE TO COME SHORTLY
Next challenge: The Ocean
Battle Royale 2009
Posted March 23rd, 2010 by admin with No Comments
Yoooo yooo so most of you all know I have a fair bit to do with iStockphoto.com… One of my roles with the company is to look after the steelcage which basically is a way to learn develop and challenge other keen photoshop users and designers… everyone from highend designers to first timers get in there an duke it out all in the name of fun.. well besides the winner gets a nice handfull of istock credits…
So getting to the point once a year a Battle Royale competition is held to find out who is king (or queen) of the cage not only for the recognition but the winner recieves $5000 cold hard US dollars…
Unfortunately for me I cant compete but for you theres not many design related competitions that come close so make sure you go and enter.
The good thing is I still get to flex my design skills in the competition designing the header you see above and soon to be reveled seed photoshop files.
Heres the link to more details over at iStockphoto
The Doors official site
Posted March 6th, 2010 by admin with No Comments
Every young man goes through a stage where the Doors just speaks to the soul… I know I went through it and its funny although I don’t listen to them much now the experience still lingers with me. So taking on the project of designing the bands new site was very special and it was something I knew i didn’t have to design as the doors are the doors and already have an established look so in this build I really concentrated on functionality and tying in all the latest technology to make one wicked site.
A light weight phase 1 of the site is up but there’s still a long road ahead of the doors dot com, part of the tactic by the management company was to make the site in phases which is smart for a few reasons the site has a lot of traffic so keeping the site fresh with new additions creates further traffic and allows the site to grow organically rather then pre-empting where to focus their energy.
Client: Doors Management Co.
Agency: Simple Season
Mike Tyson official site
Posted March 6th, 2010 by admin with No Comments
Im a massive fan of Iron Mike so getting to design his site was an honor I really wanted to make this site pop to pay homage to such a great fighter.
The massive problem with this site was there was pretty much no source content, I had 1 small web size picture and that pretty much was it.
Luckily we had video and from an early stage I knew the video was going to have to play a big part in the design of the site. Half way through the build John from SimpleSeason the agency I was working with on the project decided we need to create some fresh new content and commissioned up and coming artist Jeff McMillan to paint a bad ass picture of Tyson featured on the home page.
The site ended up being quite nice in the end, but some features were trimmed from the final build due to time constraints.
Client: Tyson Management Co.
Agency: Simple Season
Also had the privileged to do some design for the trailer for Tyson’s new film which should be released very soon
