Happy Birthday to Me

It was my Birthday on Monday, and Kyle Harvey posted this lovely video of me on LS6.

I don't normally mention BMX on this blog. Not sure why, I just don't. But I'm making an exception for this. Here's me hurting myself and destroying a pair of jeans:

Kyle O Mans Bday from Ls6bmx on Vimeo.

PS. Don't worry, we put the slabby thing at the bottom of the ledge back when we were done...

Second food post today...

I spent about 3 hours today attempting to make vegan ricotta and sun-dried tomato tortellini with vegan pesto.

The ricotta worked a treat (honest)—it was mainly made from tofu with some basil, lemon and nutritional yeast, and is based on a recipe by Isa Moskowitz.

It was my first attempt at making pasta from scratch and it very nearly worked. In fact, I would go as far as saying it did work, except I didn't have one of those pasta manganel things so the past was a bit thick and in places was more like dough balls than pasta.


I am now feeling very satisfied, if a little sick...

Mark Bittman

I found this really interesting TED talk by Mark Bittman about whats wrong with what we eat. Have a watch:



Told you meat was bad...

Her indoors...

By that I mean Cat Wickes. My lovely girlfriend. Aww.

Anyway, between pretending like the whole Suffragette thing never happened and showing my affection in public, I help Cat put together her website. To see some good design work visit catwickes.co.uk.



Apparently creativity runs in the family, I recently commissioned her nephew to create this original work of art - signed by the artist('s mum) - for my fridge.

The Other Side of Truth

I have just started reading this novel by Beverley Naidoo, about 2 children fleeing to London from Nigeria after their mother is killed, so far it has been really good. It really puts a human face on the thousands of statistics.

Ooo, I'm shaking in boots. Not!

I received this threat in my email from straight-edge screen printer Alex Ponting. I'm not scared. But I am pleased someone has downloaded my symbols - you can too, absolutely FREE, in the Work section of my website. Now go!

Pro

I have just realised that I haven't posted pics of my new business cards yet. I made 'em a couple of weeks ago. Originally I wanted the CMYK people that are on the splash page of my website, but it didn't work so I simplified it down some. I swear I wasn't thinking of the Extinked thing I helped UHC with. Promise.

Go Adbusters!

End of Year Show '09

Here is my entry for the EYS competition. It's quite dull... I wish I had spent a little more time on it now...

Here are the boards







In retrospect, I think I prefer the 'we are your future one'. I think I also forgot to include that last board in my entry, as I have just found it in my drawer.

End of Year Show '09

I have been trying to put together an entry for the End of Year Show promo competition. I am not having much luck. Here are some crap pieces of crap.

January highlights

I haven't updated my blog for a month now, so I decided it was high time to do so.

Without further ado here is a run-down, in no particular order, of my January highlights.

1.

Work placement at Thompson. Sweeeet. Well, kind off - I was supposed to do a week, but was ill for Monday and Tuesday so it turned into three days. It was smart to see the people I hadn't seen since summer, as well as the two new guys that had started. Equally as good was seeing the final version of the Metal books - You Are Here.

PHOTO


2.

Going to Amsterdam (for the culture, not the drugs and hookers...) with my lovely girlfriend Cat. This gave me an excuse to get some footage on the 8mm cine camera my sister got me for Christmas (watch this space for a video). Here is a photo of me on a big boat in Amsterdam - and not a space cake in sight.




3.

Speaking to Si Scott. He came into college with Danny Sangra and talked us through some of their work. Both really cool, down to earth guys. The highlight of this highlight was showing Si some of my work and getting the response 'It was you that did that? I've seen that before. It's nice' to the first piece of work that I showed him - one of the outcomes to my last module (below). Psyched!


4.

Being featured on the Hot Grads section of Character Creative's website. Cheers chaps!

5.

On Tuesday I started an internship at the Ultimate Holding Company in Manchester, doing 2 days a week. It should be really good, they are involved in the more 'ethical' side of graphic design as well as doing a lot of interesting art projects. Here is my favorite piece of design work by them - poster and flyer artwork for Climate Camp (hopefully I'll be attending the next one of these).




Highly Commended

Oh yeah, these also came back from the printers - they may look plain (and they are) - but this was the first time I actually designed a 2 colour print job, so go me.





Cheers big ears,

X.

And on the seventh day God spoketh to Kyle...

and said "Happy 21st birthday mate"

"Oh cheers, how did you know?" replied Kyle.

"Omniscient... duh... Anyways, I got you a birthday present"

"Ooo, what is it?"

"Flu."

Christmas Update

I have been back on the Isle of Man for a week and a half, or so now. Relaxing and writing my dissertation.

I was in the Isle of Man Examiner last week for the Uni Leaflet that I did with Tracy Kruup. Its just a short piece but they included a good photo of my beard (taken by Bing)

One of my favorite and most unexpected Christmas presents came from my sister, Freyja. It is a Bell and Howell Electric Eye 8mm silent video camera. Smart.

Also, I came across this video on the Another Limited Rebellion blog...

Christmas is coming and the goose doesn't care

I handed all of my college work in on Wednesday - check out my 301 blog - so what better way to celebrate than cooking up a big fat Christmas dinner.

Veggy Christmas Dinner: Roast carrots, caramelised carrots, roast potatoes, roast parsnip, sweet onion and swede mash, sprouts, veggy pigs in blankets, nut roast, 'chicken' roast, homemade stuffing, mushroom gravy, homemade black pepper mustard.

Pound Shop crackers: They had no prizes but did all have the same joke in...

Good Times

After dinner film: Dazed and Confused

I also got a pretty cool Christamas card (my only Christmas card) from Thompson.

It basically involves subtle Chrismas imagery - one ball of string on top of another looking like a snow man, red and green pantone swatches, etc - for each month, with a message on the inside that says how they have been waiting for Christmas all year. Good stuff, interesting format as well.

That's about it for now. I'm getting the boat back to the Isle of Man tomorrow. I'm really glad the weather is rubbish becuase I love feeling sea sick.

Thompson Fame

I just discovered that Thompson put my T£N print ad on their blog.

Cheers Guys!

Thompson Fame

I just discovered that Thompson put my T£N print ad on their blog.

Cheers Guys!

New Design?

I got a couple of issues of New Design magazine yesterday to have a look at my LCAD Open Days ad:

They are different magazines, so I have no idea why the spreads are exactly the same.....I swear its not just me being an idiot.

Belated update

Again, I have been really lazy updating my blog...

First of all. I have stripped most of the stuff off my blog so that it can be viewed from my lovely new website. So next time you check out my blog (Mum and Dad) go to kylebibby.co.uk.

I got some IOM College Uni leaflets back from the printers not too long ago. I designed them with a plain white background because I wanted to use some really nice stock. The printer reckoned it would be too much to order in the specific Paperback stock that I wanted, but after showing them some samples they said that they had some similar house stock.



Anyway, upon getting some of them posted to me I realised that their house stock wasn't really that similar.... It's not too bad, it's just that the whole reason I left the background white was to show off some really nice paper, which hasn't really happened.

I managed to find a printers co-op in Leeds - Footprint - that stock Paperback stock, so I got some and reprinted the leaflet on nicer stock for the ol' portfolio.

Look out for my photo in one of the Manx papers next week (I'm a bit gutted they don't want me in my Halloween outfit, below a bit). The College is putting out an article about the Uni Leaflet

I Pinched Bing's new Lens Baby lens last night and took some photos of the leaflet (the stack is the original print, the single leaflet is my own print, though I'm not sure if you can really tell the difference in the photo.)





The week before that I got back some stickers, and I apologise how unprofessional this might sound but they were absolutely shit. I could have done it better with my £40 inkjet printer that is running out of ink, and them cropped them with my teeth. In fact I would say thats exactly how they look like they were done.

You lose some a bit, you lose some a lot.


Also, one last thing before I go again for a while. Halloween photos (taken by Bing with his Lens Baby):

LS6 BMX official pumpkin

Joe, dressed as Alan Partridge dressed as a zombie

Mole

Kyle's light artillery

Me and my new barnet

Verity

Me again

Tom, getting a new barnet

The Lads

The lessons we learned this halloween are:

beer+hair+lino=sticky mess

beer+par cour+mullet+pizza shop=bloody redneck mess in a pizza shop+crying

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YES BOSS. At some point this morning Democrat Barack Obama won the American elections, I didn't stay up till all the results were in - just until enough results were in to be pretty sure he was the next president, and I could sleep easy knowing that pregnant rape victims could have abortions.

I'm not normally fussed over politics - there doesn't seem to be much difference from one politician to the next. However, the chance of the most powerful man in the world having a bit of intelligence really got me excited.

It's also good seeing Shepard Fairey of Beautiful Losers/urban-saggy-pant-spraypaint-culture fame supporting Obama.

White Riot...

I have just checked redwatch.org. Red watch is a nasty site set up white power (not the cheap cider) types, which acts as a kind of catalogue of anti-fascist, so that Nazis can beat them up if they see them/throw bricks through their windows/etc.

Anyway, good news, my photo is on there from the weekend, I am finally a real communist....

Seriously though, this is a naughty website that has resulted in people being attacked/threatened is only still there because of some ridiculous loophole in the law.

Another point. I wasn't really protesting, I was just spectating. For all they know I could be a racist pr*ck like them.

On a more positive note, Handy Andy Cody/Andy Morse Cody took time out from drawing circles to show me this guys website - ollymoss.com. He's only a year older than me. Looks like I got some work to do, I might have to put fighting fascist off for a while if I want to get better at design.



Redesign of The Great Dictator. Get it? Almost like my One World Center poster in my last post, the simplicity of this makes it better though.

Laters.