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I quite rightly got chinned by one of my friends down the pub last night for stalling on this project. Here’s a scribble I did there and then on the bar, of the gantry of all things (I had, naturally, had a drink).

It’s not that I don’t draw every day — I usually do for one reason or another — but this project is intended to be a series of little drawings that exist only for themselves, little spaces outside of any other thinking, even if they are just a one-line scribbles (see above). It’s making the time away from working that I’m not very good at. So to make amends not only am I going to attempt to get a drawing up every day (I won’t manage to upload every day but there should be a drawing per day),  I’m going to do one for all the days I’ve missed too. If I’m falling behind, please have a go at me. Lies.

I’ve just made these video titles for Blu Mar Ten’s Youtube album preview, including a little non-narrative montage of some of the album artwork. It’s based on a full video promo for one of the tracks which is in progress now and should be coming in the next few weeks.

Now I’ve got about a week’s worth of A drawing A Day to catch up on…

Update 27/10/09

I’ve just been informed by Chris Blu Mar Ten that this video has received 2 ‘Honors’ on YouTube; one for being the the 75th most viewed in the United Kingdom and, perhaps bizarrely, another being the 81st most viewed music video in Russia. I’m not entirely sure what to make of that — and it’s all down to Blu Mar Ten’s popularity, make no mistake — but I think that’s good going. It’s certainly received over 1200 views in under 48 hours. I’m happy with that.

Here’s a preview of the artwork for electronic music veterans Blu Mar Ten’s new album, Natural History, which is being manufactured as I write and is scheduled for an early November release.

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I’m going a bit stir crazy in here. I should make a point of going outside tomorrow.

Like a million other designers I collect examples of typography that I find by photographing them. Sometimes what grabs my attention is amusingly bad and sometimes it’s genuinely great.

I’m not holding this up as work; I only stumbled across these. But I’ve got a lot of pictures and I’m going to post a few examples at a time that I think are worth sharing. Enjoy.

… so I took some pictures and added them to the other images of work I’ve done for Blu Mar Ten.