October 2011 – Syrup Design Blog

This is a video that I was shown by my friend about a Visual effects artist from the University of Hertfordshire in his 3rd year. The video/showreel is very good for the year and lack of experience that someone of his age has. He is also very good at photography. You can look at his website here

Miguel Santana – Spring 2011 Showreel – VFX Generalist // Compositor from Miguel Santana on Vimeo.

This is work from an ex-student from the university that I am studying at called Alex Creamer.

This is New-York centric packaging for spaghetti. The brief was to package one of 5 difficult items i.e. eggs, a rose, custard powder, spaghetti or marbles. He chose spaghetti.

You can have a look at some other cool package designs such as this one Here

When you sit at your desk ready to do your work you will more than likely try to do anything else to avoid it. I bet that you sit there and think “I shall just check my emails and Facebook before making a start” You more than likely have Facebook and/or your emails open as you read this. These things lead you to browse the web, and before you know it you have spent hours looking at useless crap online.

Have you ever had a deadline for the next day and you stay up all night and produce more than you thought was humanly possible? The human mind is fully capable of doing things like this, however it sometimes needs a push in the right direction in order to do it.

What if you could just sit down, do your work and then be free do do whatever you wanted for the rest of the day, week or month. Well you probably will find this pretty hard to do, but it is possible.You just need to identify time wasters.
Different people have different interests and things that distract them, these things include the internet, games and television. Even things such as washing the dishes suddenly becomes more exciting than getting down to work. You need to identify these before you can start to become more productive.

Social media websites
Some of these include

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Tumblr
• Youtube
• Digg Continue reading “How to become more productive” →

This graphic designer did the graphics for relentless, I have this book, its well designed and the graphics somewhat dark and mysterious. Here

This is another info graphic, but this time its about internet piracy, this is a little bit more to do with my project that I have at the moment and so I shall be taking more interest in this particular piece of work.

Social Music Revolution from Column Five on Vimeo.

This is a very good info graphic by Column Five called Soft core. It is very informative and is well made and easy to understand. It shows how many people have access to the internet and how many countries have filtered content etc.