Website re-skin / archive

website re-skin, originally uploaded by *ade.

I'm in the middle of a website re-shuffle, with the aim of bringing my photography and design websites under one 'roof', and each sporting the same visual identity.

If you're the sort of person who bookmarks or links to my websites then you might want to update your bookmarks or links as follows:
www.ajrdesign.net is now: http://design.aderowbotham.com
And photography sits here: http://photos.aderowbotham.com

I thought I'd also take this opportunity to archive the previous two AJR Design websites:

2003-2007


2000-2003

Tour de France

I'm loving these posters – a clear reference to the sleeve design for Tour de France by Kraftwerk.

New Ventures

After seven years spent in full-time employment in the digital media industry, I'm going freelance again. I actually did a short stint working for myself in 2002 when I first moved to London, though at the time I had very few contacts, and in those days people were, understandably, being rather cautious when it came to investing money online.

But things are different now, and everyone seems to be busy. I certainly have been. So I'm going it alone again. Only this time I'm taking on photography work in addition to the Flash, video and web work. Within a year I aim to have developed the photography side of things to a level that I can get by on that alone. But for the time being I'll be frequenting the digital agencies of London for short-to-medium term project work.

I've still got a few weeks to go at Dare, where I've been since September 2005. It's a company of extremely talented, dedicated and busy people, and so it's no surprise that it's grown as much as it has in the last 18 months. So a big thanks must go to everyone at Dare. The standard excessive after-work drinking session will be arranged soon.

There's much to do in the meantime, starting with updating my CV and portfolio.

If you want to get in touch, you can find me here on LinkedIn or at my website.

New London 2012 Brand

Oh dear. This is absolutely awful. And this video just makes things worse.

According to their news site: “The new Olympic emblem is based on the number 2012 - the year the Games take place and includes the Olympic Rings and the word London.”.

Yeah, we got that much. Now what's the rationale behind the mess you made out of it all ?

Work

My job, these last two weeks, has looked a bit like this:

 
 
 

Did Sony fire its creative director?

I know this isn't particularly exclusive but – with all the PS3 hype going on – is it just me who thinks the Playstation 3 is rather ugly? And what were they thinking using that typeface? It's the one from the Spiderman logo! How incredibly cheap of them to have not created their own logo face.

Like most of their products, the PS2 and PSP were so on the money, but in my opinion this is awful. George Foreman Grill anyone?