Electric Weekend is the blog and link collection of Phil Bowell. Phil is a Christian graphic designer based in the UK.
Every once in a while you stumble across something that really inspires you. Something that makes you remember why you are in this game they call graphic design.
Many weeks ago Kevin Cornell announced the reason for his 6 month hiatus and gave a sneaky glimpse of what he had been doing. I was a little [...]
One of the things I’ve always tried to do on this blog is talk about things which inspire me, mostly in my design work. It’s not always happened as I’ve wanted it to, but recently I’ve been noticing things a little more and seeing that it’s not just design work that inspires. So [...]
It’s interesting how a few blog posts and a change in the weather can spark a thought and approach to something. I’m specifically talking about work here, and focusing further, inspiration.
Everything started on Saturday evening when I came across a post on Hivelogic entitled “Offices and The Creativity Zone”. As I read the [...]
Cameron i/o has redesigned. He got rid of one stylish site and replaced it with a very classy, spacious design.
A new Typography.com has arrived from Hoefler & Frere-Jones. Complete with a new blog which they’ve started.
Because so many of the topics we’ve explored with our clients are of value to everyone, we’ve decided to gather this experience into a new column called Ask H&FJ.
So it looks like 19 years worth of wisdom will [...]
I’ve been looking at some of the websites that were nominated and won in the Webby’s, so I thought I would link you up to a few of my favourites.
My favourite by quite a margin was the personal site for Graphic Designer Jonathan Yuen. I liked not only the style, but the sheer creativity [...]
Ok, I’ve been inspired to take a break from work and blog something today. What was the cause of this sudden moment of inspiration that has dragged me away I hear you cry! Well, in case you weren’t aware, London is hosting the Olympics in 2012 and today they announced the logo.
First a [...]
The last few weeks I have been working on a Uni independent study module, basically a self led brief. I have been working on a new identity for the Christian Union here at the university. I’ve worked on something that aims to demonstrate the beliefs of the CU and it’s mission statement, “live [...]
Inspiration is a fantastic thing. I’ve spent most of today working on my Uni project, a redesign of the Christian Union identity and website. Now the identity came fairly easily, but the website has been hard. Anyway, I spent most of today designing and mocking up ideas. I was chatting [...]
Now I’m not normally one for reviewing blogs or websites, but this is a little different. I have two motives behind this “review”. One, I’ve linked to this site a few times now, and I feel its worthy of a bit more coverage and I’m always happy to help people’s readership grow. [...]
Technically this is number 2, but I’m gonna class it as number 3 as well. I had prepared a post for the second Graphic Inspiration a few days ago, but then Shaun Inman went and updated the design of his site again. I was a big fan of the previous design, which is [...]
Derek at 5thirtyone posted a classy patterened wallpaper and then opened it up for anyone to add their own. This is one I have been using on and off for the last few weeks. I’ve just posted a section of it, as it’s all I use, but if you set it to tile [...]
I came across this post which Kristin Pishdadi wrote about the trading of icons on Iconbuffet, so I helped her out. It gave me the idea I should post what I have and what I don’t have here.
The ones I have(the amount left to deliver is the number beside them)
Alexandria Architecture – 5
Alexandria Atmosphere [...]
stirman.net is a page I came across a couple of weeks ago thanks to
Natalie Jost, one of my regular reads, it actually is a very close demonstration of an idea I have been thinking about lately. I’ve wanted to setup a page that tells me a few items of news (from the bbc website), [...]
The other day, Sunday I think it was, I watched “Rolf Harris: A Life Time In Painting”. I’ve always been a bit of a Rolf Harris fan, at least where his art was concerned, and it was a really interesting program to watch. I have always found his artwork really interesting and, well [...]
So as I’m studying Graphic Design at University, one of the big things for me whilst surfing the web is finding sites I think are either: great design or designs I find inspiring (which I suppose covers the first one as well). I decided since I enjoy looking at these sites and find them [...]
Over the next couple of weeks you may experience a bit of funkiness on the site, so I am apologising for this in advance. As you may have noticed already I am beginning to tinker with the appearance of it and I will start to integrate my Portfolio. I am starting to get [...]
I came across this film trailer last night. It looks really cool. What it is is a mixture of live action film which is given a special treatment to make it appear animated. It looks really cool. I had to point it out as I really liked the poster and the [...]
Vault 49 are a bunch of Graphic Designers who I think are absolutely superb. They have done some wonderful works of art for a wide variety of clients.
My favourite piece of their work is the front covers of a Renaissance Mix CD. I even managed to find an advert for it in a [...]
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