This is what commuting has done to me…

My time at Milton Bayer has come to an end… But a new beginning starts at the brilliant Type 3 Digital agency in London, which I’m really excited to be joining as Senior Digital Designer.

One of my website designs, namely Enjoy England’s  monsterfamilyfun.com has just won a top awards at this years CIMTIG The Travel Marking Awards, taking “Best Website” for Milton Bayer.

I wasn’t able to attend due to pressing work commitments, but I did send along a video thanking everyone in attendance and giving my acceptace speech. Unfortunately it wasnt shown for some reason. In fact, it wasn;t even mentioned.

Anyway, I can now add this award to my virtual collection of awards, which looks like this:

CIMTIG The Travel Marketing Awards 2007
www.england-rocks.co.uk
Best Website
Best Interactive Campaign
 

NMA Site of the Week
http://www.miltonbayer.net/hadrians_wall/  (temp domain)

Travolution 2008
http://www.justyou.co.uk/
Nominated

Dadi 2008
http://www.justyou.co.uk/
Commendation / Nominated Best Travel / Leisure Website

The time has come to say goodbye to DozBlogThing Version 1. Its been good to me, getting a lot of recognition:

• NEW:

  WebDesignPond.co.uk: http://webdesignpond.co.uk/wdp/inspiration/25-illustrative-websites/ - Mentions both the Blog and the Website!

• CSSillustrated.com: http://cssillustrated.com/blog/dozblogthing/
• AddDesignLink.com:  http://www.addesignlink.com/?p=204
• DopeAwards.com: http://www.dopeawards.com/?winner=1563
• SpoonGrpahics.co.uk: Click Here to See it
• WebUrbanist.com: Check it out here   And there’s a bit more here

But its time for a change. My Portfolio site is about to change, and with it I’m changing this blog to a new style. Its a customisation of a cool template that allows the use of @font-face technology, to give the Blog use of non websafe fonts.

So with gistening eyes, we look up DozBlogThing version one, and salute it with honour, and send it to the murky depths; and at the same time we give a welcoming smile and a cheeky, chimney-sweep wink to Version Two, and wish it all the very best of luck – particularly as it is often cruelly starved of nourishing posts.

The lovely guys at weburbanist.com have seen fit to praise me in an article. Many thanks to them for doing that – It’s a very praising review and its doubly helpful as it finally gives me something else to post on DozBlogThing.

Check it out here

And there’s a bit more here

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This week, the subject at IllustrationFriday.com is “Tango”. Here’s my illustration, which is BY FAR the best lunar-astronaut-based choreography illustration work I’ve done.  ever.

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Thought I’d have a go at joining in the fun at illustrationfriday.com 

This week’d theme is “Hollow” and this is what Iv’e done using Photoshop.

Hope you like it – must dash.

“I’m late!”

The lovely Blog at Spoongraphics.co.uk has also seen fit to give this humble DozBlogThing a mention. Head on over to their artice on “50 Inspiring Illustrations in Web Design” to see the plasticene version of me glowering pastily at you at around number 3 in the list. Thanks to Spoon Graphics for the mention. #sob#

Click Here to See it

Papervision is great – Its exploding across then Rich Multimedia Flash design community. But my big criticism with it (in its current form) is loading time – sites just take too long.

Now – check out Alternativa’s Engine demos: http://www.alternativaplatform.com/en/alternativa3d/ 

This new company have developed an open-source engine that blows papervision away in terms of loading speed and performance – check out the Bunker demo an notice how the rest of the level’s textures stream whilst you play. I believe that this engine is the one to watch, and with their proposed Windows-based object management system, there’s a chance that designers may be able to use it (not just hard-core programmers).

Oh, and check out the “Flat” demo on the above page – you can use a spraycan to vandalise the walls!

Have a go with some of these games and wave goodbye to the next hour or so of your day:

Ragdoll Cannon Remake

Bendy Spidey

Lots of Physics Games