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Any Rubber Stamp Will Do.
So i’ve started blogging for The Drum A UK design publication. from time to time i’ll duplicated my posts here.
After the Renovation

If you haven’t already seen the pictures or the little video of this place when i found it, take a quick look at the previous post, Shanghai Home Improvements. If you need a number of a great contractor, let me know.
Shanghai Home Improvements

So the shanghai property market has doubled in the last 3 years (kicking self). property prices are now similar to London, but rental is hasn’t caught up, and renovations are cheap. So i’ve rented a 1980’s workers building and i’m having some fun with it. Well at least thats the plan…
One Night Design Salon

So I’ve have the honour of speaking at the One Night Design Salon happening this Friday at Node, a club and art gallery in Red Town I’ll be joining a few people i know and a few people i don’t. In particular, Sam Jacobs from the achingly cool Jellymon and Ben Walters from Ospop. Come […]
JZ Jazz festival photos

So i bought myself a new camera, the Canon 60D and i’m just loving the 50mm prime lens. Great stuff at low light. lazy Sunday afternoon pics below.
Life within the design industry in China, A Questionnaire.

“My name is Jonathan Mckee, I’m a student from the University of Ulster in Ireland and recently studied at East China Normal University in Shanghai. I’m preparing to write my final year essay on the graphic design industry in China”
I found his questions interesting and well written, I thought the conversation may also be interesting for others!
Light of the cheese grater

Designed in google sketch up! Paint wires and graters from Ikea Drilled by my local metal worker 1 garden table ruined Wires into holes Wires into holes Wires into holes Wires into holes The least fun part. TaDaaa
“Harass” by the Australian prime minister

Saw this the other day. Made me laugh. Always fun to go into Lawsons.
Cornwall panoramic

Not too many photos this year. but put this one together. look for mystery boobs in the cliff face. Click for the BIG version
Censo****
Flickr still censored in China. Utube not available. No wikipedia, bbc or tits, why have internet at all? For those of you suffering like me… buy this VPN (thank you witopia)
London today
my thoughts are with you guys in London today
“That’s why they always put two blank pages at the back of the atlas.”

In the leading machine the Head of the Air Force was sitting beside the pilot. He had a world atlas on his knees and he kept staring first at the atlas, then at the ground below, trying to figure out where they were going. Frantically he turned the pages of the Atlas. “Where the devil […]
Byways Bermuda , Bermuda. 2006

Contacted to make a simple clean flash for the AdVantage advertising agency in bermuda.This time not for them but for one of thier clients. a local tour opperator. nice site aimed at a mature audience. functionailty includes: full secure credit card ordering bespoke php back end lets you change all the content and images on […]
Dads Travel Log
So my parents came to china, dad wrote a travel log to out do mine!