First Paying Client!

I have just received a brief to produce a website for a woman who has an acupuncture business!. this will be my first paying client, and hopefully this will lead to more work in the future. This will also be a fantastic way to increase my portfolio of work!

SaltRock Productions

I have finally settled on what i am doing next year. I am going to be part of saltrock productions. I will be the web department for the company. I will be creating and maintaining the saltrock website as well as producing high quality websites for clients.

I can also work closely with the video production department, as many clients will want their videos online. We are hoping we can provide clients with a complete package, and hopefully branch into creating whole company indents and branding solutions.

more rigging!

Once again. i have been around wav to help set up for our final year exhibition!. All is going well, and as you can see we are all having a great time!

exhibition

i have created some posters to advertise the exhibition, these will hopefully be going in bonnington, wav, varsity and the orange tree. The design is made up of all the students mug shots with the mmo8 logo and the fingerprint underneath, ill hopefully get a small file size version so i can stick it up on my blog!

rigging

its the first day of helping rig up our final year exhibition today. iv been helping clear out wav 206 all morning and we seem to be making alot of head way, this afternoon we are painting all the boards which will edge the whole room, hopefully we will be ready on time!!

light box - cool!!!

I have recently discovered a visually stunning and very usable way to display images on the web. Im thinking that this would look very sexy on my online portfolio which i am currently building!

It is called lightbox. It is created using javascript and basically makes ur images really stand out and makes any website using it look very slick!

if you click on a thumb nail image, it usually brings up a larger version of the picture in a new browser window. But with the genius that is lightbox, when a thumb nail is clicked on, the main web page fades into the background and a box animates onto the screen in which a larger version of the picture will appear!

As well as this being a much more aesthetically pleasing way of adding images to a website, it also makes it much more usable, as the user is not directed away from the main page they are on, as it can still be seen in the background, and at a simple click of one button, the image disappears and the back moves back into the foreground!

so far my attempts have been pretty sucessful at using this technique, and i will be sure to post my progress!

art inspiration

As i have said in previous posts i am very interested in art, and am a keen artist myself.

Since i have been creating contemporary art i have taken lots of inspiration, techniques and ideas from exhibitions and artists work i have viewed.

One artist i have admired for many years is John Lowrie Morrison, a scotch artist who's work is very vivid and vibrant. His work is very expressionist, due to the semi abstract feel to all of his work. Below are some of my favorite pieces.

david merson/ artist

as well as my enthusiasm and passion for digital media and design, i am also very pasionate about contemporary art and have produced and sold many canvases. I feel the two are very closely linked and i try and incorporate my skills and talents as an artist into the digital media i produce.

The skills i have acquired at NTU have also enabled me to start creating a website dedicated to displaying and selling my art work.

Below are some examples of my art i have produced for leisure and clients.