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My View of London competition

Amateur photographers based in London are being encouraged to submit their snaps of the city into a competition in the name of charidee!

'My View Of London' are seeking entries from photographers in the following categories: Colour, Love, A New Perspective and Room with a View. Prizes and a two-night stay at a fancy hotel in central London are up for grabs, as well as a bit of exposure.

This competition is run by Fight for Sight, who raise money for research into blindness and eyes diseases.

The deadline is the 23rd of June and entries submitted so far can be viewed on the website:
http://www.myviewoflondon.org.uk/
Londonist feature here:

Serco Prize for Illustration exhibition at London Transport Museum

The Serco Prize for Illustration competition was organised by London Transport Museum in partnership with the Association of Illustrators. A selection of 50 of the shortlisted and winning illustrations are on display until 3 June.

This year's competition brief was to feature the River Thames as an exciting and varied place for Londoners and visitors alike.

Admission to the exhibition is included in the entry ticket to the main Museum galleries (adults £13.50 or £10.00 concessions). Tickets allow unlimited admission for 12 months.

http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions
http://www.theaoi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=261&Itemid=47

This year's winner is children's book illustrator Anne Wilson with her piece 'Winding Through The City':

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It's Princess Weekend on Nick Jr!

Today is the day of the Royal Wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William and to celebrate the Nick Jr channel are having a "Princess Weekend" showing lots of girly cartoons.
I created some concepts along with Blue-Zoo Productions for Nick Jr's advert for their Princess Weekend.

Here are some concepts I created..
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I'll upload a little video when I can get my hands on one but for now keep your eyes peeled and watch the Nick Jr channel to see the super cute job Blue-zoo have done animating everything!

Innocent Smoothies for Kids

I recently created some concept designs with Blue-Zoo Productions, for the new "Innocent Smoothies for Kids" TV advert.
Innocent asked for a fruit filled tropical island for their bouncy fruit characters to inhabit! The ad features a Banana plane, a magnet making machine and even a raspberry volcano! The designs where really fun to create and as always I love seeing the fantastic job Blue-Zoo do bringing them to life!

Here are some of the concepts that I designed...

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...and here is a sneaky peak at the tv ad...

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Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011

The Jerwood Drawing Prize is the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK. Judged by an independent panel of selectors, the Prize aims to recognise and support all UK based artists, from student to established, working in the field of drawing.

Deadline is 5pm, Monday 20th June!

Details at: http://www.jerwoodvisualarts.org/page/3088/Jerwood+Drawing+Prize+2011:+Call+f...

Bringing some order to an order form.

I've been working on this large project designing leaflets and point of sale for Maclennan photography to be installed at various schools, it's all going to print this week. Most of the design and layout work has been done across photoshop, indesign and illustrator but I did get a chance to break away here by introducing some light sketchy illustration of products on the order form. We spent a while working on different layouts to try and make the order form something more than your average dull as dishwater form, so I decided to approach it from an art work perspective rather than getting bogged down with the information it contained.

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