This was a joint project with Joe Mania, Helen Chesner and Jessica Waters. The brief was to “explore bad type. Seek it out. Categorize it and then devise a strategy or campaign”. Other key elements were recognition, participation and the giving of awards.

Our response began with fun and games before we made t-shirts, dressed up in classic party gear (Joe Mania had bubbles) and gave awards to several shops guilty of bad typography. We asked some questions and filmed the results. The footage was turned into an interactive online game, that, as the minisite says, “brings the fun back into bad typography” whilst hoping to “reveal the people behind the type”. The original idea was to have an amalgamation of different shops but one character in a kebab shop stood out so the focus is solely on him. Depending on the score you get, you get a different shop keeper giving you a message on the end. Hopefully I can get some pictures of the party gear, bubbles and real life t-shirts.

As you may guess the game was constructed in Flash, the code wasn’t actually as hard as I anticipated but I haven’t really optimized it for web so apologies on loading times…

Click to play the game.

The last post on here was about Christmas and that’s kinda depressing, so time to get on this thing…

Pipedown is a collective that I’m part of, for the most part of last year it was just a music blog, but this year I’ve got plans to take it elsewhere. To allow us to do that I completely redesigned the site over the break. I spent an unhealthy amount of time on it, teaching myself how to code php in the process. The site isn’t finished yet and it still looks like a blog but that’s going to be perverted over the following weeks. It’s powered by Wordpress (like this blog) which seems to be an insanely flexible platform.

Anyway head to see http://pipedownson.com to see it in action.

I also do this thing called Pipedown. Music focused. It’s a blog run by four of us, our monthly club party starts in January 2010, you should add it to your RSS readers. Design by me.

I DJ by the name cntrst and I won’t post much more music on here after this (unless #gdc1 related); my latest mixtape done for friedmylittlebrain.com. An hour spent swimming through the sounds somewhere between dubstep, grime, garage, house and uk funky.

Download / Tracklist / Mixcloud / Soundcloud