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.