The annual online feature featuring a special creative project for the New Year is now online.
Special online Feature
Now in its 5th year my special online feature for the New Year features photography and creativity. Presented in a brand new look and for the first time this online feature is responsive and it is compatible to mobile & tablet devices as well as desktop & laptop computers. It includes a collection of Winter themed photography, web links to a full collection over on Google+ and Google Photos, the highlights on 2016 in developments & achievements and features my creative project for the New Year
Christmas Creative project
This special project showcase my creativity for the New Year. This years theme is double spheres theme, a design which features an inner & outer transparent sphere with new year related celebration visual elements. This project is featured on the Special online feature and online
Click here to view the Special New Year Feature
To see more of the special creative project in detail
Click here to the Visual Showcase page
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Saturday, 31 December 2016
2016 Highlights
Creative
A new style creative project which combines, leisure & lifestyle. The Fever project combines photography and visual art.
A major design development year with my awareness initiate “Plus Value Awareness’ after a year long research, feedback and design development before completing anew family of awareness projects.
A series of Showcase projects including the patented sphere theme and spin off special projects for Easter, Summer and the Autumn season.
Awareness
My initiative Plus Value Awareness has been completely transformed 2 years after it was created. This was after a year long developments including research, feedback and design development before creative a new style family of awareness projects. This includes brand new projects such as “value is” and “is this the right value?"
As part of completing the new style projects to my style awareness projects shared to selected people for additional feedback.
To spread the word of “Plus Value Awareness” I attended several events includes Social Enterprise networking sessions and autism awareness events. This includes attending the Autism Show event organised by National Autistic Society. As part of the event i attended a special seminar hosted by celebrity music couple Carrie & David Grant. I was one of many people on asking questions after their talk presentation on the issues on their efforts to maintain the best education with their teenage children who has Autism. Later had an opportunity to talk to they was both interested with the types of project I'm developing for “Plus Value Awareness" and gave me some advice.
Participation
I assisted in filming a line up of legendary Hip-Hop performances at London’s Forum at Kentish Town. The artists includes from the America’s East Coast KRS One and DJ Premier and London’s very own legendary DJ Cutmaster Swift and 279.
An part of attending of the U.K’s biggest Salsa Music convention festival I assisting I setting up the flooring, sound system and the furniture for the event “Motion City” at Hilton Metropole Hotel at the NEC near Birmingham.
Active
Attended number of festivals related to music, visual & reforming arts.
The second City of Colours event happened in Central Birmingham combining street art with live breakdancing showcase & competitions. The first evert "B-sides" Hip-Hop festival a weekend long event combing graffiti art, breakdancing and live Hip-Hop performances.
After a 4 years break the "Flyover show" returns featuring "Sweto Kinch" and a line-up of performances covering different music genres
Attended selected concerts including Hip-Hop artists Smiff “n” Wesson, DJ Supreme with Curoc and The Mouse Outfit
with a variety of live DJ’s include Nightmares on Wax, A Guy called Gerald, Grahame Park, Giles Peterson, Harvey Sutherland, Sean Mcabe, Feel my Bicep, Grant Nelson, Birmingham’s very own DJ Spaara (The two times DMC UK mixing Champion) and many more. In addition attended cladding events covering different music genre including Hip-Hop, Soul, funk through to house music organised by Funkademia (Manchester), Leftfoot, Subway City, Soul Fusion, Wobble, Sweat, Bruk up and Enter the Dragon. I also attended the Rainbow Warehouse’s special New Years Day party.
Attended more Salsa related events & festivals and social events in 2016 than any pervious year. Festivals including “Motion City” (one of the U.K’s largest Salsa music convention & festival), “Salsa all day festival & Valentines Ball”, "The Latin American Festival. I also attended salsa social events from Latinmotion, Smooth Salsa, Picante and the V.I.P salsa ball events. This is together with a regular session from the live salsa band "Del Camino"
I have made photographic & mobile captures on some of the events mention in addition locations such as the NEC pavilion at night and the Peace Padgoda gardens in Milton Keynes
It mark the end of 2016 I will attend for the very first time to Latinmotion's annual New Year event. Now in its 22nd year the event has become bigger expanding over two days on both New Years Eve & New Years Day. The event has a combination of special workshops, live dance performances and social parties. Located at the NEC near Birmingham.
Involvement
Months before Birmingham City Council redesigned it website I attended their consultation on feedback and the effective way to make their initial idea better before the website became live for the general public. I made several points based on clarity, legibility and the importance user friendly countering variating abilities from all types of society.
General
My website has being transformed for the first time in 4 years. The completed the website to be 100% compatible onto Mobile & tablet devices as well as desktop & laptop computers.
In preparation of developing social enterprise a social umbrella parent name & identity was developed currently presented under “Plus Value Fusion”. As special website was developed and information materials. The Plus Value fusion is design to cover all types of service and projects. This includes my focus skills such as creative and participation also there “Plus Value Awareness initiative” and “Differences & Autism Challenge"
New style publications was developed to share my developments & achievement in total new ways such as a family of digital portfolios.
Friday, 23 December 2016
New style Awareness invitation
An online invitation has started for everyone to the new family awareness project.
A special page was created on the Plus Value Awareness website to introduce at total of 6 new style awareness projects. This is promoted from the Plus awareness social media pages on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ Some are brand new and others of new updates version of projects.
The new style projects was made after 6 months of research, feedback and design developments followed be creating new content online. The new changes also includes and new updated brand identity for Plus Value Awareness.
The new changes was aimed to more be more clearer and more appealing on the issues & topics.
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Notice to editors:
The Plus Value Awareness initiative is developed & designed by Keith Mckenzie with a unique approach to awareness project for independent young people and adults with Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Social Anxiety.
To approach project is to address the issues based on ground levels experiences and to move ficus on the human aspects rather than the medical aspects. The project is aim towards a better sense of value with Invisible difficulties.
Tuesday, 20 December 2016
An important name change notice for enterprise
The umbrella brand identity on developments & services for social enterprise its changing its name. So from now on the brand name is changed to Plus Value Fusion.
The reason of the change is because the previous name using the name "Plus Value Enterprise" is already used as a business therefore could risk facing legal problems.
The website and blog update will display the new name however the content & information will remain exactly the same.
The new “Plus Value Fusion” name changes will also apply to all associated focused website including Plus Value Awareness, Differences & Autism Challenge and the focused services My main website
The website address for enterprise will remain the same for the time being. But will update you on developments on any website address changes.
The name changes will gradually appear as a footer on my main website and blog update and the associated websites
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Monday, 19 December 2016
Special creative design & online feature for Christmas
The annual online feature featuring a special creative project for Christmas is now online.
Special online Feature
Now in its 5th year my special online feature for the christmas hilly features photography and creativity. Presented in a brand new look and for the first time this online feature is responsive and it is compatible to mobile & tablet devices as well as desktop & laptop computers. It includes a collection of Winter themed photography, images of street Christmas decoration both have web links to a full collection over on Google+ and Google Photos and features my creative project for the Christmas season
Christmas Creative project
This special project showcase my creativity for christmas holiday. This years theme is radiated elements, a integrated design which features an abstract glass tree along with 4 visual elements associated with christmas with floating colour shapes with a winter snow background. This project is not only feature on the Special online feature but also is shown on social media and presented onto a greeting cards
Click here to view the Special Christmas Feature
To see more of the special creative project in detail
Click here to the Visual Showcase page
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Sunday, 18 December 2016
Major changes affecting the main website
My main website is going through major changes. The website is currently converting all pages to 100℅ responsive. When completed all pages will be fully compatible to all devices onto mobile & tablet devices as well as desktop & laptop computers.
Most of the pages on the website will remain unchanged as it is now. However certain pages will gradually be moved to directions sections or replaced as part of a total new page. This is part of a on-going development process of restructuring the main website as part of transformation project.
You may start to notice a new enhance look with new style banners and template pages and link also background images & additional colours as a background. Thus will enhance the appearance and will gradually start to appear especially with index pages & specialised pages and blog pages.
During the process of converting every page to responsive format you may notice some images & page templates may appear oversized when viewing from mobile devices for a temporary time until every page images & templates are modified to be fully responsive.
Keep updated via the transformation elements of this blog update & via social media
Friday, 2 December 2016
More examples added to the newly launched awareness project
A total of 7 more elements added to the Plus Value Awareness project called “Value is”.
The project emphasising the important aspect of the word “Value” and they importance of people with invisible difficulties to have the right of a good sense of value.
Dignity respected
The important aspect to defence their sense of value
Inclusion
The essential point that a person with invisible difficulty must be an inclusive ember of society
Not-tight boxed
Discouraging making categorising and typecasting attitudes and assumptions
Adjustment respected
To respect any adjustment a person with invisible difficulty has to do for sustainability.
Expressions and experiences heard & respected
To not use a person with invisible difficulties to undermine their expression or experiences
Sharing good practice
To encourage achievers and role models with invisible difficulties to share their expertise to encourage more achievers
Well represented
To enough smarter understanding and knowledge to prevent misperceptions
All the additional elements will contain background information along with main points and online tips.
With the additional content this project now has a total of 13 elements.
To see the designs in detail
To view the entire project
Click here here to view the project
Notice to editors
The Plus Value awareness initiative is a family of projects, services & campaigns about challenges understanding and awareness for people with invisible difficulties, to see see a more human rather then medical aspects and to promote and to educate a better sense of value.
The words invisible difficulties are describing independent people with invisible difficulties which his hidden and not visually obvious. This is associated with moderate or mild psychological and learning related conditions. (including high functioning autism through to ADHD & society).
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