Special Creative project for the New Year

A new creative project has been developed for the new year called the Curved Corridor theme. The design consists of led style lighting effects, party bullbs and the midnight clock face.

 
This design is being featured as part of my special online feature for the New Year.
It features a summary of my creative project and links to my Winter Photography and my blog article on my highlights in 2014 as well for examples on whats being planned for 2015 

Click here to the Special New Year Feature
Availible online until Sunday 11th January 2015

Go to the Visual Showcase page to see more of the project in detail

2014 Highlights

From creative & active through to participation & awareness, a look back on the key developments & achievements in 2014

Participation

My biggest achievement in 2014 is being featured on a major music album cover around the world. I modelled on an album for the Legendary artist Diamond D. This was a photographed & designed a close friend and the director of the music challenge King of the Beats Pritt Kalsi. This became a winner of an international competition by Diamond D and beaten competition from loads of entries from round the world. The album its elf was completely sold out within the first few weeks of release on LP vinyl, CD and on downloads.  The alum cover was featured on music websites & video sharing sites worldwide.

I was a photographer & modelling for a family of branded street clothing launched within 2014. This was for King of the Beats & Diggers clothing created by the director of king of the beats Pritt Kalsi.

Creative

I have developed webpage presentation design for the company Michael Miller Photography.

Two key key creative awareness projects including transferring one of my existing creative awareness project became a designer mug. A new creative awareness campaign called Sense of Value. (for details look under awareness)

As number of abstract visual art projects adjacent specific seasons, this was a spin of the presentation design under the in 2014 featured on promotional material and online. Including the Summer fever project and the Christmas transparent elements

A series of design & architecture photography including images at Bristol, the expansion of Media City UK in Salford and Eastside City Park at Millennium Point Birmingham


Community

Attended a number of community meetings in 2014 including Crime & Community tasking meeting (arranged by West Midlands Police), local ward meetings in South Birmingham (arranged of Birmingham City Council) and a National Disability hate crime meeting & seminar (arranged by Disability Rights UK) also the Redditch Community Forum in Worcestershire.

Awareness

One of my awareness projects linked with my Autism Challenge initiative as transferred onto a designer mug. This was created in connection with Bridge Mentoring as shown to staff, students and lecture for University of Birmingham on World Autism Awareness Day.

I expanded my Moving forwards awareness projects with a new series for creative campaign into poster format. Called Sense of value, highlight the issues of attitude and treatment with the positive and negative side effects.

Active

A number of outdoor festivals I have attended including Birmingham’s Chinese new year celebrations celebrating the year of the horse. Also attended the street art festival “City of Colours” and the Tramlines Festival in Sheffield.  Places of interest photography was taken round (Birmingham & Bristol), also images was taken of outdoor scenery during the winter spring, summer & autumn. An outdoor event celebrating 100 years of the bus in Birmingham with a display of local buses past & present and future fleet planned for the city from 2015 onwards.

2014 was the biggest year of attending entertainment events then any previous year.
I started in Manchester with the Hacienda New Years Eve party featuring Todd Terry, the late Franke Knuckles, Grahame Park and 808 State. With attending this event I may be one of the last people to see Franke Knuckes live before he sadly died on April. Other Dj events including Jazzie B (Soul II Soul), Norman Jay, Mr Thing, Daddy G (Massive Attack) vs Don Letts, Maxxi Soundsystem, Greg Wilson, Soul Buggin, Giles Peterson, Marshal Peterson, Maurice Fulton, Les Croasdale (Funkademia in Manchester). Also attended 8th Anniversary celebrations of Cream Birmingham with David Morales, Danny Rampling, Tall Paul, Brandon Block, Rue Jay and George Kafetzis and attended a number of event featuring the crews Leftfoot and Futureboogie in both Birmingham & Bristol also Horse Meat Disco crew in Birmingham. Another celebration event attended is the club night Sweat celeberting over a quater of a Century of event. The night feature the 2 times DMC mixing champion Sparra.

I also attended a number of local Dj events featuring local crews featuring Rudell, Ohme, Steffan Taylor, Rudell, Miguel Verde, James Spinx, Dwnload and a night of combining hip-hop music & videos featuring DJ E double D, DJ Maurice Croc & Miss C Brown.

I also attended live music events including Public Enemy with Support from DJ Chuck Chillout live in Sheffield as part of the Tramlines Festival. Also saw the legendary hip-hop crew the Jungle Brothers live in Birmingham. To celebrate the end of 2014 to ring in the new year into 2015 I will return to Manchester for the 9th consecutive year running & will attend the Hed Kandi 15th Anniversary event, featuring DJ’s Stu Ojelay, Sarah Louise, Martyn Russo,  Adam Guy, Pete Mobey and many more.

Online
Expanded to more social media pages on Bechance, Instagram, Flickr and Talenthouse

Special creative & online features for Christmas

 

The special creative projects and the special online page for the festive season is now avialiible to view online.


Special Christmas Feature online
For the third year running a special online feature I have developed for Christmas is now available online on my main website. This feature showcase weblink to Christmas & Winter related photography including Christmas Street decorations and winter related outdoor images as my special creative project for Christmas.

Click here to my special Christmas feature page on my main website
Online till Monday 29th December when the feature will be replaced by a special online feature for the New Year.

Special creative project for Christmas
Now in its 14th Year a special creative design has been developed for the festive season which is featured on the special Christmas Feature.

This seasons theme is “Transparent Elements” which features seven visual elements converted into a 3-dimensional transparent objects filled with glowing bulbs together with reflective and glitter effects.

The project not only used as part of the special online feature but also featured on social media to more places online than ever. Featured as a portfolio presentation for the first time on Bechance, Pinterest together with examples of the project on Flickr and Talenthouse. Additional the design is featured heavily as profile and cover images & as a greeting design on my social media on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+ and my personal Facebook page.

Click here to the Visual Showcase page to view more of my creative project for Christmas
The page will also contains direct weblinks to my portfilio presentation images on this creative project over on Pinterest & Behance

Festive creative teasers

A series of creative teasers start to appear online, this is related to special creative design project for the Christmas season. This project is titled transparent elements which consists of 7 large visual elements into 3D as a transparent glass filled with glowing bulbs the white concept is reflected sideways or below giving a glass effect below or sideways. The concept also includes sparkle effects & floating spaces.

The creative teasers is appearing on my social media pages on Instagram, Twitter, 

Tumblr, Linked-in. 

The teasers also appearing on my personal Facebook page (limited to personal contacts)

When the series of teasers has complete the festive design will be unveiled online.

Where will the unveiled design appear online?

My social media pages on Twitter, Instagram, Pininterest, Behance, Talenthouse, Linked-in, Tumblr and my Personal achievement Facebook pages.

This creative project forms part of a special online feature I have created for the Christmas period. The special feature is now availible to view ahead of the offical launch on Monday 15th December and continues to appears online till Sunday 28th December, when a special New Year feature will appear from Monday 29th December onwards, when a special cretive project has been developed for the online feature. (More details will appear towards Monday 29th December)
Click here to view the Special Christmas feature page on my main website.

Also on my main website you can now view this project in detail online.
Click here to the Visual Showcase page to see the project in detail

In addition the design becomes a printed greeting card and electronically via email.

More updates will appear here.

Autism awareness mug

I have recently received my own personal copy of the a special designer mug design based on an autism awareness (developed by myself), 7 months after creating the design for World Autism Awareness Day.

This was developed in conjunction with Caroline Lear at Bridge Mentoring. These special designed mugs are shared to students, staff & Lecturers at the University of Birmingham.

To see the designs in detail click here to the Visual Showcase page

Late autumn abstract presentation design unveiled

To mark the end of daylight saving times in the UK, Europe & North America an additional version of the autumn presentation designs has been created.

These family of design highlights the darker nights related to longer hours of dark skies at night. As part of the collection a special version developed for the Bonfire night (on 5th November) & the fireworks events throughout November in the UK. This is part of the family of distorted tower abstract designs used as an promotional toll to promote my achievements & developments within 2014 on printed materials, on social media & online

Click here to view the Visual Showcase page to view the designs in detail

Part of major album cover for a Hip-Hop legend

Images are Copyright Dymond MINE Records / Pritt Kalsi

A photoshoot featuring me  has become an album cover for one of a major names in hip-hop music. This for Diamond D's record selling album "The Diapeace". The album cover featuring me was photographed & designed by the director of king of the Beats Pritt Kalsi was a winner of a album cover worldwide competition set by Diamond D's & D.I.T.C records. The design is featured worldwide on various music formats vinyl, downloads, MP3 & onto CD.

This record selling album was completely sold out within the first few weeks of release.

To celebrate the album launch a limited edition T-shirt which. Displays the featured album cover for Diamond D

The album itself has collaborations with some if biggest & respected names in hip-hop. This includes: Pharoache Minch, Pete Rock, A.G, Nottz, Guilty Simpson, DJ Hi-tek, chino XL, Masta Ace, Raposody, Black Thought. Fat Joe and many more.

The album cover is featured online on webpages & video promos several music reviews around the world including: all hip hop, amazon, Kevin Nottingham, underground Hip-hop, XXL Magazine, iTunes, Hip-Hop Wired, Yahoo, Fat beats records, Juno Records, Vevo, Xclusive Jams, MTV and many more.

Click here to my main website to see more of this Album Cover in detail

Notice to editors:
Diamond D
The legendary Hip-Hop producer & artists from the Bronx, New York and member if the affiliated team Diggin in the Creates (D.I.T.C) which features some of the big names in underground hip hop scene including: O.C, Show & AG, Big L, Fat Joe, Buckwild and Lord Finesse. Diamond D produces the music for all of the D.I.T.C members along with other artists including Brand Nubian, Cypress Hill, KRS One, Torae,  Dialated Peoples & Big Rec

Diamond D own material has created his own an unique style and flavour. He has made 6 albums over the past twenty and this album will be his 7th.

Pritt Kalsi
A film make maker, designer, creative artist, DJ, Producer and an event organiser. His prime achievement is centred round the unique beat making challenge King of the Beats. This project ranges from a film documentary, record label, music videos and live events.

Keith Mckenzie
A designer and a participant of the project King Of the Beats including filming and behind the scene preparations. In addition developed a family of awareness projects affecting individuals with invisible difficulties.

Participation round up

A summary of a number of developments which related to participation has occurred

Conference Photographer

I participated at a international conferences on autism awareness as an event photographer. This took place near the Edgbaston cricket ground in south Birmingham. The event featured key speakers from round the world including Wendy Lawson from Australia and Maureen Bennie from Canada. This was developed by the midlands based support organisation Studio 3 in conjunction with Autism Inclusion which provides support, training & signposting services. 

Clothing Photographer & Modelling

I was a photographer & modelling for a family of branded street clothing launched within 2014. This was for King of the Beats & Diggers clothing created by the director of king of the beats Pritt Kalsi.

Modelling for a music album cover

I become part of a major hip-hop album in 2014. I was featured on a photoshoot which became an album cover for Diamond D's record selling album "The Dia Peace" Photographed & designed by Director of King of the Beats Pritt Kalsi. The design was a winner of an international competition organised by Diamond D & his record label D.I.T.C. The album became record selling when it was sold out within the first few weeks of release.
Click here for more information

Images will available at a later date.

Activity/Active round up

A summary of a number of events which has I have attended so far:

Myself and my friend the director of King of the Beats Pritt Kalsi had an special opportunity to have behind the scenes & backstage access with three of the most legendary artists in the hip-hop music scene in the past 40 years. The artists includes Public Enemy and DJ Chuck Chill out when they was performing live at the Tramlines festival in Sheffield and the Jungle Brothers when they performed in Birmingham at the famous music venue, The "Hare & Hounds" in South Birmingham's King's Heath district.

I have attended a number if events & festivals in 2014.

This includes Chinese New Year's "Year of the Horse" celebrations at Arcadian leisure complex and international street art festival "City of Colours" both events in central Birmingham. During my experience at the Tramlines Festival with Public Enemy, I experienced other music live performance from the group juice.

Places of interest images taken in Central Birmingham and in Bristol.

Images was taken from an special outdoor event. In September Birmingham celebrated 100 years of buses with a displaying buses from the past, present to future bus designs to appear around the city.

Outdoor scenery images taken round all the seasons of Winter, spring, summer & autumn at various locations including parks and street side.

Images associated with the information mentioned will be appear online at a later date

Creative presentation for Autumn season

A series of creative design presentation for 2014 continues with a new collection for the autumn season.

Three designs created including two using the abstract distorted tower along with a standalone spin-off version. 
The distorted tower theme is presentation is this year design style used online and onto promotional materials.

Click here to the main website to see more these designs in detail

To view the entire collection of designs linked to the Distorted tower theme click here for details

Additional special creative designs for Summer

A family of additional designs has been created as part of the fever project. 

The new collection related to the main summer season. 

One version is linked to the main curved tower presentation theme, the remaining collection are a series of spin off designs focusing on visual elements of summer.

To view the full collection go to the Visual Showcase page over on my main website

Fever presentation designs for Summer

A family of abstract presentation deigns for 2014 has expanded further with a collection for the summer.

Its called the fever project a number of creative designs to be created centred round a visual concept featured a spiral summer shape.

It was unveiled on selected social media to mark the weekend around mid-summers day on 21st June (known as the longest day of the year), when designs are display as the profile & cover images

Further versions will developed during the summer period. Updates will appear on my 

Social media pages and on the Main website

Click here to view examples of my creative presentation designs for the Summer season

Further community involvement

My involvement with the community continues by attending a number of meetings which related to several issues for the local communities.

The main meeting attended is with the Redditch Community Forum during June at Redditch Town Hall. This is arranged by Redditch Borough Council and several community groups & organisation in Redditch & elsewhere in Worcestershire.

On this meeting I addressed my concerns on the lack of progress on a local groups for local bus passengers. Despite there are no action to be taken within the community, I have decide t develop a special directions document with suggestions on what need to change to improve bus users conference and the bus network itself. This including suggestion to improve the local bus routes and enhanced marketing. This is due to negative disputes between local passengers the local community and the selected local bus operators. Especially when the instability on the local bus service levels has not improved.

Other community meeting attended in 2014 including Crime & Community tasking meeting (arranged by West Midlands Police), local ward meetings in South Birmingham (arranged of Birmingham City Council) and a National Disability hate crime meeting & seminar (arranged by Disability Rights UK)

Expanding and Reorganising online

New changes with expanding new social media profiles and updates changes to the main website

Expanding Social media
New social media profile with new online portfolio pages (Pinterest, Behance, Talenthouse & Flickr) and general image profile from mobile devices

View the new social media profiles
New social media pages now available on Pinterest, Behance, Talenthouse, Instragram and Flickr. Click on the links below to view the new pages

Pinterest

http://www.pinterest.com/keith1559/

Behance

https://www.behance.net/keith1 

Instragram

http://instagram.com/keithuk1

Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/15324227@N08/

Talenthouse
https://www.talenthouse.com/keithmckenzieuk

Additional icons with links to the new social media pages will gradually appear on the main website.

More creative content added
The visual showcase pages of the main website is being reorganised with more pages added. Plus more images from my creative work are added.

Click the links to Visual Showcase Category pages 
to view the expanded creative projects

Click here to the Marketing & Promotions index

Click here to the Photography index

Click here to the Information Graphics index

Click here to the Visual Art index

Click here to the Web & Multimedia index

Main website home page

The visual look on the main website is now been modified. Because of some technical issues when certain banners and links not appearing on certain web browsers including Internet Explorer. So the home pages has been slightly simplified so all web browsers can have full access.
Click here to the main website index

Sense of Value awareness project created

 

An expansion to the creative campaign project is developed  Titled called Sense of value focusing on the advantages and consequences against how society values a person in the autism spectrum regardless of how hold they are or background.

The project features a with scale and two colours linking with value and no value. Three versions was created with a combined value & no value, plus two separate value and no value version along with keywords on the advantages and the consequences which affect the rest of society as a whole. 

To view the project click here to the Differences website

Examples from this project will appear on the main website at a later date.

Moving Forwards is a campaign create project to challenge the conventions of autism awareness issues. This is part of the Autism Challenge the initiatives which challenges understanding and attitude on issues which affects people with autism. For over a decade many projects has been created including a survey which enables people with asperger syndrome to have they say on the issues affects them and a series of focused creative project along with written issues online, on social media and at events & conferences.

Creative & Presentation projects on Autism Awareness

 

A number of awareness projects in 2014 for World Awareness Day & Autism awareness month during April. "Sense of Value" has been developed to educate the advantages and consequences depends on how they challenge a person with autism. 

Three designer presentations has been created. Tis includes an extract from a United Nations statement for World Autism awareness Day. Also a presentation of statistics regarding people with autism in the UK & worldwide.

One design from the Moving forwards project has been transformed and featured as a designer mug presented to students, staff and lecturers at the University of Birmingham  for World Autism Awareness Day. 

Special Thanks to Caroline Lear for making this possible and for providing the photography of the Moving Forwards designer Mug

Click here to the Autism awareness month page on the Difference website

Moving Forwards is a campaign create project to challenge the conventions of autism awareness issues. This is part of the Autism Challenge the initiatives which challenges understanding and attitude on issues which affects people with autism. For over a decade many projects has been created including a survey which enables people with asperger syndrome to have they say on the issues affects them and a series of focused creative project along with written issues online, on social media and at events & conferences.

Presentation design for the spring season unveiled

A new spring seasons variation of the special presentation graphics for 2014 is created. This design features a large abstract sunflower in a sunshine style over the tall curved skyscraper style shapes with covered with textured shadow & highlight effects.

This designs started to appear on my social media pages from early March including Google+, Twitter and my Personal Facebook pages.

To find out more of the creative presentation please click here to the Special Feature page for 2014

Website Presentation for Michael Miller Photography

I was asked to develop the presentation look to a website for the company Michael Miller Photography. 

The new updated look for the website was created to promote the key areas of portrait photography on studio and on location. Also on the website, it incorporates and update blog and a page with information on the workshops in the London area. More content to be added

Click here to the Visual Showcase page to view more on this project

Creative presentation designs for 2014

 

A family of abstract visual designs was created at the beginning of the year. This is a crated element linked with the special online feature for 2014. It is created as a additional extension to my design presentation on print and online.

Throughout the year this will evolve and will relate to key seasons of a year and specific events & festivals which occurs either at one-off or annually. 

Main version

The main theme is a distorted interpretation of a sky scrapper style blocks with a family of filled colours and filled visual images.

Seasons variations 

Based on the visual designs used for the promotional presentation, addition versions was created for seasons of the year. So far this three designs variation was created related to seasons. 

The New Year design was shown displayed online during late December 2013 and through the New year public holidays and through to the first week of 2014. Not only it was shown onto my social networking websites, a special New year feature was developed on the main website through the New Year period.  The theme is related to celebration which involved visual light effects and part balloons and the midnight clock-face. 

The Winter variation focusing on the stylised large ice stars and cold colour palettes. This was shown online as a profile or cover image on my twitter and personal facebook pages. This will continues to appear until early March when the spring variation will start to appear.

Special spin-off projects

This is under development including a design for the Easter period.

A family of special creative designs was developed related to specific events or festivals which happens every year. Some are using the visual graphics used for promotional presentation and others will have a separate design look. 

The presentation designs appears onto printed promotional materials, social media and on the 2014 Special Feature pages on the main website

For more on the creative presentation featured on this page are available to on the 2014 Special Feature page

The special online feature for 2014 has arrived

The second edition of the annual special online feature is now online. It will focus on the key developments and achievements during 2014. The highlights includes: Key Progress is a news update feature, highlighting the most significant developments of this year. A series of special creative projects to be developed used as an extension to the promotional presentation graphics for 2014. Details to be confirmed. This feature will eventually become a reminder what's has been achieved this year and what's to be planned. Also a special strategy section focused on the evolution on promoting achievements & developments. A series of special presentation graphics for was created for this Special Feature, this will extended with many variations to developed throughout the year.

Click here to the 2014 Special Feature