Boomer's PPD Blog

Just fully updated my new Cargo Collective site in lieu of absence of a full website, and i think it's a pretty good temporary substitute. Does what i need it too anyways.

www.cargocollective.com/sonicboome

Last night i got a late call from Steve Banks (6:30pm) at PSS asking me to do a flier for a do him and his work colleagues are having this week. He sent me this .jpeg and said:

"hi dan
please can ya ammend the image to say.........
banksy & craig always say,
.......then the rest of it.......
and put it in the top left corner.

then underneath and in the bottom left corner put.......
join us for after work drinks at
Norman Bar, Call Lane, 6pm - 10pm
£2 on selected drinks


thanks
steve"

and this was the image he sent:



Now, as any one will know, you can't take a crappy jpeg, delete stuff, add text and alter bits without making a mess. I told Steve this and said the only way to do it would be to take a different photo, edit it to look like that one, then add the text. "Yeah great, thanks" he said.

"Oh and can i have it by tonight".

So i did. Here's the process:






Took me about an hour and i had to leave my beans and sausages on toast till later to get it done but i did it.
And i got it in one.

Got a call from Papa Boome aka. Señor Boome aka. Boome Snr. and he offered me some work, which is nice considering he's an old school joiner and hasn't offered me work since I gutted That Attic for him That One Time. Well it's not really work for him per se, but to cut a very long story and 45 min phone call short, a family friend collates, produces and distributes a small publication of local tradesmen, skilled labourers and local businesses. Think of it as a kind of local mini-yellow pages. Anyway it's into it's 6th edition now, and during a conversation with said family friend Old Papa mentioned I was a designer and would be happy to help out with layout etc.

So I've got a couple of old editions (see below) and hopefully should be working on the next one.

And getting paid. Happy days.

Sent from my iPhone

Hi. Sent from my iPhone

So I just set up Mobile Blogging - now all i have to do when i want to post something is email it to a certain address and BOOM! (or Boome) and voila, it's on this blog.

Cool huh...

I'm starting a new website to replace the old one. Why i hear you ask? Well, let me tell you.

For one, I never actually finished it. There's no explainations, no descriptions of work, the navigation was awkward and to be honest it was a little messy. I think i got it to a point where I'd really had enough, and it worked enough to go live so, as a test, I put it up and it worked! But just working doesn't make a good website. So for one, it needs finishing.

Secondly, I don't like the design anymore. It was kind of a concept and experiment at the time, and again, it worked, but it's not amazing. It needs to be clearer, easier to use and cleaner. But it was nice while it lasted.

Lastly, and probably more tellingly, I did it relatively quickly and got bored of it very quickly. I do that. I get fed up with my work and want to do something else. Constant change and all that. So i want something that can last, something that I've put a lot of work into making, so I'm gonna take my time with this one.

I think...

HOLIDAY TIME :D

Here's where I'm going...





See ya.

Right, done. After writing up the briefs, here's the final 10:

Low Clothing

PSS Greetings Cards

M. Boome Joinery Services

E4 Monday Night Movies

Metro

Don't Panic!

Guilty Pleasures

NFL/NBA 2010-11

Xbox vs PlayStation

Lost

The biggest problem I have when it comes to writing and researching my own briefs lies with the fact that I'm still not 100% sure what areas of graphic design I want to fully pursue. For example, I'd really like to try some layout and editorial design, but having not really explored that side of design yet would it be right for me to go into it now, in my 3rd year, when maybe i should be focussing on something I've tried and tested before. Similarily with motion graphics, which I've only really dabbled in before, and branding and identity which I've done practically nothing with before. But I don't want to have a stack of briefs that all say "produce a poster", "design a book cover" etc etc, just because that's what I'm used to. So it's a tough cookie.

1st day of placement with Steve from Paper Scissor Stone.

Wish me luck.

NEW WEBSITE

So this website has taken me literally all these past 2 weeks to do, and then a whole day and half figuring how to get the damn thing on the internet, but it's done! hopefully the "LIVE" button will be pushed soon!

SO that was one MAMMOTH beast of a job editing all those damned images and i hop i never see them again. It took me SO DAMN LONG i'm seriously not impressed with it. So here are the finished pages, sack sticking each individual image up here.

It starts with a main work page, with square links to each subsequent piece of work's page...



And then these are the individual pages:

Now obviously i have to get my work online. going along with the whole sketch-book idea i want to try and get a ripped edge look to the images. I'm gonna have small preview squares of each image that will then expand out into full sized images.

The process will go thus:

- scan in torn pages
- adjust them to the right ratio of the sections they'll fill in dreamweaver
- delete the background
- copy the edge template
- paste on top of edited image of work
- inverse select and delete un-needed section
- make sure image size is right ratio
- save as .png so deleted background stays clear

That should then leave each image in the right format and scale to be inserted into the Dw template. Then i'll need to import all the original images into lightbox and with each edited image make a link between it and the original.

Easy as that...i think...

So i decided t go with the BOOM in your face idea, and so i did this awesome roll-over image and link. Gonna roll a similar thing across all the pages.



So this is my final first page:

shabba





new

After many tries and tests and experimetns with the size of the icons, this is my new first page. It lacks a bit of ooomph, and i think if i'm gonna keep this i either need to take away the writing or make it bolder, cos it just doesn't have any impact. It needs to be in your face or subtle with just the icons.

NEW START