This is an idea for a screen print I will be doing, still not sure what colours to pick. I’ll keep you posted 
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This is an idea for a screen print I will be doing, still not sure what colours to pick. I’ll keep you posted
After being approached by a friend to do a logo for his band The Silverbacks, I did this Gorilla. Not ideal for a logo but still nice…
I thought I’d spice up some old characters by sticking them into illustrator and giving them a make over, here are the results…
We’ve built a game that helps you to find out what’s going on in your area, it’s called pling-u-like.
Have a play at pling-u-like.com
Pling-o-matic, the tool we’ve built to convert Family Information Directory (FIDy) records into Plings has a new home.
Take a look at pling-o-matic.com to learn lots more about the application which is cleverly offering Local Authorities a huge cost and efficiency saving!
Over 20 Local Authorities have now taken up the opportunity to publish their Positive Activity data at plings.net using the pling-o-matic.
Today myself and Keir went back to Stoke for the second in our series of consultations with some children and young people with Disabilities.
Today we had two sessions.
In the morning we popped over to Middlehurst Special School and spent an hour talking to the school council. I unleashed a Sharpe and a craft knife and did a spot of paper protyping to quickly show the young people what we’d learnt from the first consultation sessions.
They gave us some useful feedback and showed us they agreed with a lot of the ideas the young people from the first consultation came up with.
Splitting into two groups gave us the oppourtunity to ask the young people how they’d like the information displayed to them. We spoke a lot about the tools the young people would use to get to a service they found on the internet and how they’d contact them for more information. Keir’s group gave us some excellent feedback on the Widget symbols we’re planning to use on the website as well a great idea involing the helpful spider, i’ll leave you intrigued!
After a particularly tasty Jalfrezi we popped over to Black Friar’s Day Centre to meet up with a group of young adults. We spent some time talking again about Widget Symbols, the layout of the site and how we could represent some of the categories with illustrations. The young people took some great photographs and video too!
Today we launched the latest upgrades to NYAS‘ Adult Care in Birmingham website which they manage on behalf of Birmingham City Council.
The site is a listings directory of services available across the city for Adults.
Take a look at www.adultcareinbrum.org.uk
Sunday was the first in a number of consultation sessions we’re doing with children and young people with disabilities.
The young people are helping us to get together ideas for a website we’ve been asked to build by Stoke City Council. The website will be a place they can go to access the information contained within the Family Information Directory (FIDy).
So on Sunday, Jane and Nicola from the Family Information Service along with Caudwell Children a local disabiled children’s charity brought together three groups of young people. We came up with some fun activities involving colouring pens, prit-stick and an A0 print out of a web browser to get feedback on the content, colours, images and layout of the website
At the end of the day all the young people rushed off to Waterworld, leaving us to clean up all the mess they’d made!
The day was great fun all round and the feedback we recieved was amazing.
Thanks again to everyone who took part.
Today we launched the new website for Helping Hand for Yardley, an employment project run by Birmingham’s BEST Network. Take a look at www.bestforyardley.org.uk.
Our brief was to provide a quick and easy way for potential clients to find information about the project and contact their team of advisors.
We used Google Talk to provide an online chat facility. This has enabled potential clients to chat with an advisor about how the project might help them as well as make an appointment straight away.
The BEST Network provide targeted support to very specific areas of the Yardley area so to ensure clients weren’t disappointed we built an online eligibility checker into the website. Pop your postcode in and see if you’re eligible!
Today we launched the website for the Let’s Talk B8 film project we’re running in collaboration with Our Community and the Evolution Centre. It’s the project i’ve written about here before which is funded by Mediabox.
The website is live at www.letstalkb8.org, take a look and tlet us know what you think.
Here’s the blurb:
“Local Voices is enabling the Young People of Washwood Heath to have their views heard about their local Community
During the first two weeks of April 2010 ten young people will be given the opportunity to create a short film discussing their views about the Washwood Heath area. All the films they create will be published here for you to view”
The website is being maintained by the young people involved in the project so keep checking back to get updates on what’s going on.
A couple of weeks ago I spent some time doing a feasibility study for Steven Flower at Substance. They run a project called Plings (Places to go and Things to do) which aims to aggregate information about events going on all over the UK for Young People aged 13-19.
The feasibility study – which you can read here in full – aimed to answer a few questions relating to Plings and the Parent Know How Directory (PKHD) including:-
The key outcomes are:
The report proposes an application be built to parse PKHD records searching for signs of instance data, convert these into plings and upload to the Plings API.
If you’ve got any queries about the Plings > PKHD Fesability Study then feel free to give us a shout.
Some months ago, a good friend of mine who has always had a part-time interest in supporting his local community of Washwood Heath in Birmingham decided to make it a full time interest. He’d already formed Our Community and was running regular sports actiities for the young people of the area but was keen to expand.
As ever, and very pertinent at the moment, funding is tight for small Third Sector organisations, it’s importnat to stand out from the crowd when submitting bids.
Around the same time I stumbled across this TED lecture given by Peter Gabriel, about `Witness`, a human rights organisation he set up. It aims to stamp out human rights violations by giving vulnerable people and activists the equipment to capture these events on film.
I sat down with Bash and started to think about how we could use Witness’ ideas to ensure the views of the local area were collected and heard. We’d already identified that one of the biggest issues was that the young people of the area were misunderstood.
We came up with the idea of asking Mediabox a DCSF fund to give us a bit of cash to buy some Flip video cameras and get to work with a group of young people.
Today we’ve received the letter confirming our bid has been accepted. We’re due to be running the project during the Easter half term break so watch this space for more details, exciting times!
Some months ago we sat around a table with a group of parents to bash out a specification for a website. The site was for a Birmingham based parents’ organisation called Parent Views Count.
Their main activity is to act as a conduit between service providers and the parents of children with disabilites. They ensure parent views are taken into account when the Local Authority and Voluntary sector design services.
They were interested in promoting their organsiation but also expoloring how they could reach more parents by getting them to engage in consultations online.
Their brief was simple, make it
That’s the sort of brief we thrive at, we get really excited about making a site as simple as possible to use.
So after a few months beard scratching, prototyping and re-prototyping we’ve launched the site. It’s at parentviewscount.org
We decided to make the navigation the focus of the site where a user who struggles with the internet can find all information they need to know straight away. Take a look at the navigation bar, below each of the elements is listed the most recent or most important element related to that topic.
We’d urge anyone who has a child with a disability to get along to a meeting, they’re a lovely bunch of people.
Parent Views Count are managed by Barnados and funded by Birmingham City Council.
I altered the colour of this with a scalpel, some masking tape and spray paint.
This is my 1st big acrylic colour painting on canvas. I’m very pleased with the outcome and I really enjoyed painting it so watch this space for more! Its about 100×80cm.
Recently made mp3 player for Beatplexity.com
Due to the resession & swine flu this hasn’t been coloured in.
If otters ruled the world…
Drawn in ink and vectorized.
Vectorised, rendered and coloured in Illustrator. The paste up is 8 foot high and in Digbeth, Birmingham.
A5 Drawing coloured, vectorized and blown up in Illustrator…. Called Changface because of its chang-like features. Maybe more because of a cheap brand of beer in South Asia.
Ink drawing vectorized and coloured in Adobe Illustrator.
Ink drawing scanned into Photoshop, mirrored and transformed to create symmetrical pattern.
