Monthly Archives for: November 2011

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Curriculum Vitae Site Logo

I am putting the finishing touches to a CV / Professional Skills site (I’ll do an extensive blog post of all tasty design elements for the official site-live, which should hopefully be in the next few days). The concept theme behind the site is the idea of nodes and connections, and I’ve (jokingly) coined the term: “Connectionist” to describe the professional practice of connection making.

The final (cherry-on-top) design element was a logo identity. The challenge was to visually represent the Connectionist idea as well as myself. Here’s what I came up with:

DB Logo: Light on Dark
The Light on Dark Model
DB Logo: Dark on Light
The Dark on Light Model

The ‘sell’ of the Connectionist being that having a wide field of training allows someone to make connections between disparate disciplines and hence to produce creative solutions.

The design and development of this project has been (notwithstanding a few notable Jquery pains) quite a joy. The web is evolving faster than early man when he got his first set of opposable thumbs!

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Tour-Time

Musical Happenings: Plenty going on at the moment in the musical sphere and over quite a wide geographical spread: Winter People are embarking on a national tour with Busby Marou from next week, playing our first shows in Tasmania, before heading to Queensland, then Victoria, then Western Australia for five shows, then one final home-coming show in Sydney. The band has been accruing some decent frequent flyer points lately, with a trip down to Melbourne last week for a one-off show at the Toff (which was a great night, but getting up at 4:30am to fly home was not so great). Finally, the two photos below will illustrate the fact that I really do need a haircut.

Winter People at The Standard
Playing at The Standard for Camera's album Launch
Winter People at The Toff in Melbourne
From The Toff in Melbourne. Thanks to Katie Fairservice Photography for this one

Besides actual musical efforts we’ve been shooting film-clips and getting some photos done (our great lament is the relative impossibility of getting six people, in the one photo, to look vaguely acceptable, alas, alack there is always closed eyes, or wonky eye-brows, or surprised expressions etc – some off-cuts below).

Winter People Pulp Fiction
Winter People doing Pulp Fiction.

You just cannot beat
The money conspiracy
You can only join it

- Martin Amis, from "Money "