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Inspired.

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:59:00 +0000

It seems really hard to get Marc Eckos Complex magazine over here, i sometimes randomly find it stuffed behind a bunch of magazines in the local WH Smiths as though someone is hiding it! damnn i hope i haven't crushed some kids dream hahaha i remember doing stuff like that when i didnt have enough money and wanted it really bad. So anyway i found the March issue last week, there was so much that inspired me in the magazine, Drake's story and a little of the comments Soulja Boy had to say... i don't even care if people cringe when i say that because whatever people say doesn't change the fact this kid is unbelievable in what he has achieved.

The single piece in the whole magazine that inspired me was what Noah Bever wrote in his Editors Letter, i've uploaded it here go check it out, its a must read!

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:55:00 +0000

My Return.

hmm where do i start with this post!

Swapped my launch dates around so many times for the tick publication, the first issue is actually finished and second almost on its way. I'm currently learning my way through building a ipad app and grown so much hate for code! On Monday i'm going to release the tick podcasts we did in Autumn of last year as a free download so keep a look out for that, some really cool guys on there.

So with the project status cleared up i hope, the question is where the hell have i actually been?

I woke up one morning almost 4 weeks ago now with unbearable pains, not able to get back to sleep, was taken to hospital where i ended up getting a pint and a half of air pumped out from the area inbetween my lung and my rib cage. So glad its all over with now one more xray on Monday then everything should be good :]

Only thing is i can never do this :/

I can never dive ever again because i would most likely black out which pretty much sucks arse to be honest, I've never done any type of diving :/ ahh well at least im okay its not that much of a big deal really i guess. Its taken a while to recover, naturally i've been beyond bored luckily i managed to get my hand on a 35mm Olympus OM10 through my Granddad. which you can see by the image at the top of the post :')

Its been so much fun messing around with photography i never imagined film cameras would appeal to me! love going back to the basics. Until next time head over and check out my inspiration blog i just started up :]

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:11:00 +0000

to be a success you need to make sacrifices.

my life is sold.

I dont want to be good at one thing, i want to be average at everything

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:39:00 +0000

I have a massive list like evryone else of what i want to do in life, my major one being a car designer forever i've had a creative mind and at 11 i combined that with my passion for cars booom match made in heaven for me i think i yet have to convince everyone else.

The 'list of if i could only do this...'
Alongside these i want to do crazy stuff like Travis Pastrana as the commentator says ‘no limits baby’ because travis really is a guy on the edge , i love extreme sports but not having enough money to get involved i never had the chance to do it, yet. Also, i want to get into a bit of graphics and do cool illustrations for snowboards, try my hand at music if not singing/rapping maybe some dubstep... theres a massive list of stuff i want to try my hand at i dont want to be good at one single thing i want to be average at everything. What made me think about this more was watching the trailer for the Lemonade Movie a documentary about 16 advertising professionals who lost their jobs and found their calling, encouraging people to listen to that little voice inside their head that asks, “What if?”

End of the year, good feelings about 2010!

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:11:00 +0000

Hope everyone had a great christmas, white christmas! :]

Pheww where do i start!
its been a little while since i updated so theres a lot of stuff conflicting in my head right now but things clear be prepaired for this to be a massive post. First off me and my buddy Lee Julien are heading to london today for the week, looking up studios photoshoots here and there just entertaining our crazy lifestyle y'know so look foward to some photos shooting up here this week.

So were bringing in the new year in style in the LDN whats cooler right? Come New Years Eve im going to start a kick-ass sketch a day post series inspired by Spencer from IDsketching. One day hopefully i'll be able to be a great sketchmonkey like this guy, pumping out so many insane pieces like he does! His style varies but netherless unique, i especially love his orange and grey colourways he's chosen of late. Check out some of his work that have inspired me in the 'Artist Of The Month' flipbook below and head over to IDsketching.

'Artist Of The Month' is another series im starting up here, i really want to give more than just putting out my work and this is the next step to creating a designers blog that people will follow to mainly see my work and movements with a small dose of profiling others.

Late 2009 has been a great a period thats growing stronger and hopefully becoming even better for me as we turn into 2010, setting up my own digital publications has enabled me to connect with so many inspiring people on a personal level that wouldnt of been possible until decades from now otherwise. Here are some interview previews to give you a taste of tick with launch issue now January 2010, im sorry its taking too long you've had numerous dates its just basically had to be put back whilst i concentrated on other projects i had at the time. We allready have content for issue two and working on our Febuary issue so enjoy listening to these snippets and grab a full copy when it drops.

Powermovers#
people that are gearing up, to blow up 2010!

Mike Posner, weve been here before... theres a snipet above of the interview we had and i'm going here again because [not to blow his trumpet] but he droped a mixtape that he produced in his basement and landed a record deal with Sony BMG not only that he was wanted by labels far and wide which included meetings with rap legend Jay Z, not bad from a guy just doing his thing. Posner is a typical example of how it doesnt matter what resources you have available to you, its what you do with the raw tallent, how you display it that gets you places.

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:05:00 +0000

Been a little slack with showing my sketches lately got three moleskines to digitalize so have a whole bunch of stuff up real soon, anyway heres a nice 3/4 glimpse :)

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:48:00 +0000

I might do a whole bunch of Saab sketches now there officialy dead. shame such a cool brand is gone why couldnt it be a brand like daihatsu??

Helvetica, Creativity & Objectified,

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:23:00 +0000

Finally this week I’ve got round to watching Helvetica and Objectified two great documentaries by Gary Hustwit.
I’m not big on the graphic design side, i mean i delve into it a lot and I’m experimenting and even considering taking it for university but a lot of the terminology i dont even know. I’ve heard Helvetica roll of peoples tongues, events in the cities on Helvetica but never really determined what it was I didn’t realise it was the font that we see billions of times a day.

'Ultimately my job as a designer is to look into the future, Y’know my job is about what’s going to happen not what has happened’ Marc Newson

Newson really got me going when he made that statement in the film, i'm bored everyone can see it in me... i'm bored of design a 'clock' a 'chair' and not being challenged to create something for the future, the digital age. Everyone has to start somewhere i know but ive been coming up with future concepts before i could even draw when i was ten i was coming up with stuff like the multimedia tv we have now, i remember coming up with a mobile phone concept that you could watch movies on... okay it was truly just fictional and wacky back then but that type of stuff is out years later. I just wish i was looking into the future again instead of looking to the history books to design products that have been around forever!

So Objectified, hmm I think I’ll have to go watch it again but basically it documents the basics of design to be viewed by an audience who are not apart of the design world. Well the same as Helvetica documentary is clearing up a essential basic in the graphic industry, 90% of what i seen when watching objectified i already knew however some of the eye opening talks from people like Bangle and insight into designers worksapce has led me to come up with some awesome concepts over the last few days. For example something based on the current lynx deodorant canister... keep you guys guessing and have the sketches up in the next few days.

Lee Julien The lego Jeweller

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:08:00 +0000

Ryan Leslie, Tick & some fresh sketches

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:18:00 +0000

So in a change of direction with my blog im going to show off some people I aspire and look up to one of them for the moment well actually since the beginning of this year has been Ryan Leslie

Ever since the early days of creating his first album he would upload videos of recording in the studio and actually hiring camera men to follow him along his career is one of the factors and forces behind my confidence growth of putting tick out there… what really sets him apart from other celebs is that he keeps it real, he interacts with his fans as much as possible look at this video production with Yahoo when they film his day on the block where he lives in Harlem and you will totaly understand what i mean. He isnt mainstream over here like a lot of great american artists but Mr Leslie is definatly a guy to keep you eyes on very closely...

I would die for a inch of his success, style and charisma, he graduated Harvord university with flying colours! I had the track ‘How it was supposed to be’ from his first album set as my ringtone since last February when it dropped and only recently changed it last week when his second album ‘Transition’ came out to ‘Something that I like’ the opening lines just ring instant style, ive mentioned him previously a few months back and was going to do a project on him an as i get tick out over the next week i will be puting up some ideation work for this idol.

So tick has had many diffrent deadlines its chopped and changed a lot and it is coming, its been put back because of certain features i wanted to include some of these being motorsport director Will Roegge, designer Brook Banham and diverse up and coming music talent Mike Posner... and much much more so head over to the tick myspace page and twitter for more updates.

[tick] Autumn photoshoot

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:12:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:32:00 +0000

"i think that cars today are almost the exact equivalant of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists"
ISSUE 25 CARL*S CARS

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we will not lose, because we or not losers ... we are L.A.S.E.R.S

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:44:00 +0000

"we want a end to the glamorization of negativity in the media, we want a end to the status symbols that dictate our worth as individuals... we want to think our own thoughts"

Forever I have had people question why I do this, people wondering why I travel the amount of hours daily to go to college or places like xenophya [which is around 6 hours travelling too and forth] without pay to make a name. I just want to do something and be something like everyone else does and right now Detroit maybe a long shot, a dream, a fantasy that may come true but may not come true and I know the facts, the percentages, the overall possability of that outcome of an email that says ... Dear Stephen, Congratulations. More than anyone else.

I've never conformed to the norm, I’ve been chasing a dream from my childhood, I’m chasing that dream harder than i possibly could, probably too hard but if there’s that tiny chance I make it in I couldn’t care about the pay, the benefits as long as I live nicely I just want to be behind that desk at Ford in Detroit or Honda in Los Angeles nothing would give me more satisfaction than to pen the design of a object that’s mass produced and seen tenfold in day to day life. So for all the doubters, the people I grew up around that saw/see me as an outsider that just can’t understand - this is me.

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:40:00 +0000

Artist inspired series [Daniel Simon]

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:26:00 +0000

Been meaning to do this for a while, a artist inspired series/trying to imitate a artists style, first in the series being Daniel Simon a great car designer that everyone in the industry knows about but in case not or you’re not from the design background Daniel Simon graduated from Pforzheim in Germany, worked in the VW advanced concept studio and left after a lot of his work never left the underground... released his Cosmic Motors book last summer that I discovered in the CCS Bookstore and helped me gain inspiration whilst I was out of it for the first few days... the book is full of futuristic concepts and has given him a kick-start into the concept design industry creating the bike in the latest TRON Movie.

For the last five years learning myself to draw cars i can probably count on one hand the amount of times of drawn cars rather than designed them. I guess that’s kind of a big problem with my work, I need to get out there to some garages and just do some real life observations, take up close photographs of certain details observe the headlight jewellery and generally just see how shadows lay over the surface of the body. I have a lot of weaknesses that could just be ironed out by spending a few days kicking it around car garages – something i will defiantly have to get round to doing next summer.

I just thought I would throw in this little sketch i found on my hardrive, seems pretty cool have a load of random things like this lying about maybe I will do a mini series.

Travelling with technology & never sleep

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:42:00 +0000

Lately I’ve started to carry my laptop, I’ve mentioned briefly about putting a ‘digital work database’ together basically digitalizing all the work I have ever done onto a hard drive that I can carry around with me where ever I go. I love that aspect that I can carry everything all my old random sketches when I was younger, notes of concepts I want to follow up sometime I feel that carrying my older work will enable me to go back and look at what went wrong and then be able to act upon it with my next similar project and as we get increasingly more mobile filtering my work onto a drive that i essentially call my own ‘visual design story’ at such a early stage of my career will help come in handy through every single stage of my career, providing i keep it up to date everyday!

However what really gets on my nerves how carrying equipment to capture what I’m getting up to is very un-fashionable it a camcorder, camera, hard drive and my laptop takes up so much space and makes me looking like I’m going on a camping adventure, its mainly my laptop with its huge 17” inch screen that takes up the space. Not only the fashionable aspect but the fact is my laptop 17 inch makes impossible to use on my 4 hour daily travel between home and college. As a designer i really need the bigger screen, but also I carry a small wacom too so I was thinking why can’t I just carry around a 17 inch screen rather than a 34 inch fold out machine. Laptops need to be updated to the new age that’s being demand by the ‘iphone generation’ which in its unit simply has a single button but is a platform device that has millions of uses other than being a mobile phone.

I’m just thinking out loud but how about a wrist video cam? Can you imagine the flexibility of such thing... how much more video capture we could produce! you could argue this idea is pretty much obsolete because of the revolution of phones donning the video capture even apple brought it in with their recent update of the ipod However i find the problem with these devices is that you have to go to the trouble of getting them out of your pocket, stopping in the middle of the street or where ever you are at the time, with the wrist-cam concept you could just put your arm up, stretch and capture I know I hardly ever video capture on my mobile because I have this sense of insecurity that everyone thinks I’m a techno freak or just generally a freak by what I’m trying to capture. A typical example for me was last week in London when I stopped to take a photo of a Lamborghini Gallardo... wow right? Like no one has seen one of them before however its very urban style with extra body kit and insane rims could of been used for future reference. Anyway with the fast paced streets of the capital I felt dumbed down and also vulnerable because it was about 10pm and pitch black, all these social insecurities could vanish with this concept, I wouldn’t have had to stop, I could have just kept on walking pressed one button to record one to stop, done. Let’s say this wrist-cam was linked up to my 17”inch screen in my backpack and that had constant mobile broadband such as the service three has launched [MiFi] and on the display of the wristwatch was a sharing application.. In seconds I could show something that I thought was inspiring, interesting through to my design followers without great hassle.

Especially as a designer reducing the excess in my backpack and having wearable technology would create that extra diversity whilst travelling, being able to capture inspirations a lot more easily but most importantly being able to do it quickly a lot quicker than having to get a camera out of a backpack, I know there’s a lot more stuff I would record if it was ‘easier’ to control not in the sense that I’m lazy just the majority of the time i come across inspiring objects/sights is when I’m rushing to get to a certain location normally when I’m running late to college. Im sure this is probably something maufacturers are allready working on i hope so i wasnt sure if it was worth pumping out some sketch work, maybe its something i'l work on soon.

NEVER SLEEP

I’ve been going into waterstones for a while endlessly looking at the design shelf, nothing really strikes me as special, i havent been able to find something that i thought would help me personally and all the stores I have visited in the north seem to have a general mixture of art/fashion/design into one not any specific innovative books. One grabbed my attention at the when I was in London last week, In front of me was this book with never sleep written on its side so i was like hmmm sounds all too familiar... I pulled it out and was even more intrigued by the back cover representing the words “THERE IS A MAJOR DISCONNECT BETWEEN THE LIFE OF A DESIGN STUDENT AND THE TRANSITION TO BEING A DESIGN PROFESIONAL” and to be honist its one of the best books that i have ever read, written by the guys Andre and Dan [dress code].

I'm only half way through but they talk a lot about expectations, internships, money problems the list goes on and i suggest anyone in any field of design buys it because it will most definatly give you more of a clarified insight into how to make it into the creative industry.

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CCAD = NO NETWORKING?!

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:42:00 +0000

I entered Cleveland College of Art and Design in Middlesbrough, England last September a student with passion i was excited about what they do and wanted to get away from school and realise my dream a little more in terms of becoming a designer.... i had my interview, got accepted and a few months later to that I won a scholarship to America something everyone seems to know about there but doesn’t know the full details... that’s not because I have a ego it’s because every moment I have spare I’m trying to push my dream of being a car designer.

Ever since my first stint at Xenophya design last October my blog has been at the tip of their tongue when I’m on the internet, when actually since I got my laptop in January I have never updated my blog at college but it keeps cropping up as though they have something against networking and showing the world what I’m getting up to. One scenario was a few weeks ago when one of the lecturers was talking about a sudden movement in the class where a lot of us have started bringing in our own laptops into the studio, the first word emphasised was blog and hinted at me, how we should not be on our blogs all the time! I’m sorry but when that was mentioned then, the actual last time I updated my blog was something like the 25th August when I went to London.... so c’mon how can you create a argument against me being on my blog when there’s no argument to be had. I updated it two months ago when I wasn’t even at college it was the summer holidays!

I’ve started to come to the thought recently that actually I work a lot differently to most tudents, I use social networking in a big way to keep up to date with trends, twitter keeps me active with up to date industry news... even more up to date news than the dormus magazine that gets pushed under our nose... twitter is live, it’s as and when it happens! twitpics that are shared through twitter are inspiring and sometimes when you open them up and you’re in the middle of a project it can help ignite a idea... within seconds I can get advice from professionals on my ideas and concepts. So if I can get in touch with industry professionals directly and get a response in a matter of minutes how is this not a useful tool that I shouldn’t be using as a design student?

I have Skype also and I admit I never use it at college but what the hell if I did I could call people up for advice in a matter of minutes again with a response that in some circumstances could allow me to get on with a project quicker than waiting 20-30 minutes or on SDS a whole afternoon for a lecturer to come and see me. I don’t understand why seeing me on my blog is the crime of the century at college, the education system really needs to get with the times. With me having a central online hub it’s given me the confidence to work harder and be proud of my work whilst also getting noticed by some great people, through networking I’ve meet up with the likes of Joe Simpson and Mark Charmer of the Design Movement Bureau, Eric Galina Editor of Car Design News, designers at Nissan Europe, been able to visit Benedict Radcliffe at his Studio last week, Skype chat with Brook Banham a designer in San Francisco which is kind of ironic because I remember some of his artwork shown to the class in my first year at college... [Podcast download here] and the list goes on. I’m not going to stop networking and reducing the conversations and opportunities I’m having by switching services off and going back into the stone age of career building.

Thoughts, planning and adventure

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:16:00 +0000

Today, I decided to plan my whole life for the next 9 months, i've got books here on fashion, fine art as well as loads of design so I might as well put them into practise. I'm making space to do more stuff other than 'cars' and making space for me to use my more of my creativity. Also, i've slotted some time in there to try my hand at music production just messing around with my laptop but who knows where it goes... all these things inspire me and will hopefully transfer through to my work. Could be fun to see the way things turn out, stay tuned.

Tick has been delayed to Friday 13th and going to be purely retailed via myspace, so please head over there spread the love to me, the contributors, the whole tick team and keep posted on the whole tick movement as it happens. I'm writing this as i head into college today, i've abandoned my huge backpack today and boombox headphones to have room to breath. No doubt without my laptop and tools i'll be accused of being 'on my blog' at college today.

What it feels like to just be able to walk into a shop buy a big cardigan and massive scarf, pay, walk out and chuck them on to keep warm i felt almost like a v.i.p that could do that today, it gave me so much self esteem and actually it was a creative process in itself many ideas about future retailing [that was sparked by a chat with Mark Charmer of Design Movement Bureau last week] i have barely any money left now though and just hope tick takes off so im going to pump all my time into that project to get it off the ground.

So no new sketchwork today unfortunately just a little rant and insight to what im thinking, me and my friend Chelsea are trying to keep our blogs up to date every day a little challenge we both got going on... i think she's winning at the moment though hahaha

London Round-up & Thoughts

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:18:00 +0000

Just a few sketches from my moleskine whilst around London this week, it was weird because in the fast paced paced city i felt more chillied out than what i normal am here kickin it back on the buses 4 hours a day. Allready planning my next trip down hopefully between christmas and new year lets see :)

So after i visited Benedict Radcliffe and the Nike 1948 Store i somehow eneded up in a starbucks in canary wharf, Benedict gave me a few cultural/lifestyle car magazines i had never come across before Ramp and carl*s cars and throughout all the cars ive drawn its always been me designing my own, i've donw very few obeservations so here i was just playing around with a really quick ballpoint of a intresting concept i found in ramp.

It seemed really diffrent in that location, i was probably the only standard class guy in the whole coffee shop, felt weird at first but was a pretty cool experience netherless suppose be get in them class divide situations a lot in the future.

I visited Seymour Powell, a Iconic british design studio for a quick chat with a designer there and it opened up a few things to me although i'm ahead in the game i need to continue and get even further. He didnt seem too enthusiastic in what i was doing and i got the impression as though i was waisting his time however more down the transport line, guys within the car design industry i have met on my travels get me, what i'm doing can relate to me on terms of where im going and the frustation of how i want to be out there right now.

Nothing comes straight off as someone quoted me this week "Rome wasnt built in a day" and i totaly understand that, ive been teaching myself since '03 to get to this point and all the way through just wanting to be recognised a little and profesionals to give me tips. I have that now, i'm metting some amazing people that are allready influencing my directions, my work and my next steps but what i have to sit down and reflect on is the design world for me after all?

The answer will FOREVER be yes!

no doubt though i'm going to think a whole ton about it all, i've had some great sucess so far and experiences but to build on that and be on top of my game i need the energy to channel through the fierce competition . So i bought myself this new book called 'NEVER SLEEP'

It seems pretty good, Two graphic designers from ohio describe the ups and downs and that massive transition grap they shout about on the back cover ^ and straight away with the title of the book being 'never sleep' it gives you a massive clue into how your lifestyle is going to be.

Its quite simple if i want to be a huge designer i need to move away, i have to be prepaired to live out of a suitcase the majority of the year and be in cities where the only people i know are the others in the studio with me, i have massive language barriers to get over... unless i start learning launguages now i've never been totaly great on the topic so allready i'm weakend down to England, America, Australia... etc i find it really hard to finalise ideas, i can sketch,sketch,sketch and sketch forever but when it comes to saying thats the one lets refine and make it i struggle something else i have to channel out very soon i need to expand on photoshop and artwork presentation techniques.

So i have a lot to do before im 'industry worthy' but allready at 17 my name is getting out there to some big names, i've travelled to motorcity, ive had around 2 months studio experience at Xenophya and im starting up my own digital publication tick i couldnt ask for much more at this stage really because i'm going places i never thought was possible until after university. you get out of life what you put in and i think im at a happy medium with that right now :]

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Great day in London Town

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:41:00 +0000

I was lucky enough to get the chance of visiting Benedict Radcliffe's studio today for tick however it turned more into a casual talk about each other’s careers rather than me interviewing him... haha maybe I’m just no good at this journalism business. Defiantly a cool guy has some great work, usually tends to create wireframe objects such as his Nike Air Max commissioned by Nike for their 1948 store.

It was totally crazy trying to find the Nike store, tucked down a side street I must of walked past it at least 5 times before i realised it was there, well realised I mean... I went into a clothes store around the corner to ask for directions haha what a embarrassment oh well.

There will be a article on Benedict in one of the tick issues maybe the launch one if I can slip it in, in time. Hold on tight for that but in the mean time if you’re not familiar hit up his website! After this i took off to grab some dinner with Eric Gallina, Editor of Car Design News it really blows me away the respect I’m getting and the opportunities I have to meet these guys and just being in London this week has made me defiantly want to come here for University now, well meeting with a designer at Seymour Powell tomorrow and then off home :) I need to come down here a lot more often!

I'm Back!

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:16:00 +0000

I'M BACK!

Hey guys haven’t been around for a few months [even though my lectures have it in their mind I’m on my blog 24-7 ughh] so I’ve been spending a whole lot of time creating my digital magazine called tick. What is it? Tick is a resource, a inspiration magazine for people in the creative industry... a new definition, the proper definition of a art magazine anyway enough about that and more about what I’ve been up to :) Well I’ve almost digitalized all my work EVER! that sounds so geeky but everyone needs to do it and keep it up to date, now wherever I go I carry a hard drive the size of a book and it has all the work I’ve ever done imagine how handy and useful that is?

Here is my first drawing back in 2003 well I think it’s my first I don’t remember but it’s the earliest I can find, load of rubbish haha, around then I was 11 and had the obsession of buying every car magazine out there AutoCar & Auto express weekly then like Top Gear, Car, Evo monthly where the hell I got the money from I don’t even know ahh whatever it was a investment anyway I wouldn’t be where I am now without the inspiration and I repay them.... by not buying that type of magazines anymore haha! Well why go buy them when you've got websites like Jalopnik and a whole load of online media sites that you get the info for free, it’s fresh and gets the news to you quicker than magazines.

You all should go check out my friend Chelsea Kirchoff, really great person i miss her so much i love her work especially the robot piece ^ I need to get a big AO print of this to put up on wall one day, she just graduated from CCS for Illustration head over to her blog she's working hard at the whole internet thing and updating her blog every day. BLOG // TWITTER

I went down to London and met the guys at Movement Design Bureau Joe Simpson & Mark Charmer in August. Wow I met Mark yesterday again and every time we go for lunch and have a chat my mind explodes personally I don’t connect with no one my age I’m a social outcast but it’s like everything clicks it’s so inspiring discussing how the future is going to go, in terms of the urban landscape turning into this digital world how people are going to get around and the challenge of the high street vs. online stores... just think for a second how is the high street going to look like in 10 - 20 years as the internet develops even more?

Also go grab the November issue of Wired, Joe as a article in there sharing his vision of how the city will change :)

Well I’m down London now at the moment, don’t know what I’m doing today but oh well I’ll just venture down to south bank and do some sketching may go over to Saville Row and do some window shopping haha I might get some laughs like 50 in his video.. I’m going to laugh back :)

I set up a out&about mini blog to track my adventures at thoughts whilst I travel so head over and read through, subscribe and come talk to me on twitter I’m going to update a lot more, college teachers can stick it about my blog networking and recording my journey is getting me industry respect and places i would only of dreamed of less than a year ago, even after Detroit, twitter is a essential tool for anyone with determination and ambition.

The end of the supercars?

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:28:00 +0000

The end of the supercars? the end of the petrol head, the end of lusting over supercar exotica, Lamborghini, Ferrari, koenigsegg, Pagani to name the least... every go fast yestersecond cars look ever imminent to vanish, like Jeremy says 'an ending'

Do we really want to lust over cars like the Aston Martin Cygnet in the future?

Inspiration: Short Films

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:27:00 +0000

Short films like this remind me of my childhood mistake of not attempting to skateboard or take up any extreme sports.. i love watching the guys do ther thing!
i did have a toy story skateboard or something when i was about six haha but i wasnt determined enough.

Been invisible for a few weeks but i'l be back soon, developing a new series of sites because what started of as a portfolio blog has gone into my inspirations so i want to try and break them apart again with a launch of a online media site. more info on that as i unveil it :] all systems go when september turns round i hope.

Mac Motorcycles 'wil be ready in 2010'

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:24:00 +0000

I still carnt believe im apart of development :]

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LDN

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Donald) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:54:00 +0000

LDN

Visiting london eventually, been anxious to get down to the capital for neally a year and half now! meeting up with some influential people, guys from the movement design bureau, a internship interview and studio tour of the Nissan Design Europe!

Droping into Seymourpowell and hemingwaydesign also. Hopefully i will have a camcorder on hand to track my journey in the capital any questions you want me to hit these guys with drop a message and i'l hopefully be able to fit it in. :]

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