fiat 500, just like an ad?

this picture was taken on my blackberry phone while walking in beaune, france last week. 

it was almost as it was staged for me, but it wasn't the car's driver had just popped into the shop nearby.

I have always liked the fiat 500 (mentioned in this blog before) and though I prefer the look of the original the new version is very pretty. I have played with the image a little bit, as you can see, but still a chance picture.

just because I like it >>

I have always tried to keep fresh as far as ideas in design and illustration, but when I saw steven wilson's work I was draw to it immediately.
not just because I am originally from brighton as he is.
but in the early seventies as a teenager trying to to learn to draw and spending ages looking through poster books, I really liked the splash posters of that time I even had one on the wall at the end of my bed. steven wilson's splash

candyjar >> & I don't want an iphone

I was having a look round cyber-land when I came across this blog dave ward (candy jar). as you may know I work a lot with adobe illustrator and to a much lesser extent adobe photoshop with the work I do with students and the web design work I do for educational stuff. the blog has got some pretty good help and information on both illustrator and photoshop short cuts, so could be very useful for some.


I am currently working on another major web re-design where some of the work can only be done on illustrator (well I cannot find anything that is better) but the strange thing is that all the work for is being done is on pc (well on a reasonably powerful pc laptop).
it does all the things I need I would prefer to use a macbook pro but it is not the cost but simply that the network at work is microsoft driven (oh well) so to use a mac would be difficult.

so I am not at all anti mac (or apple) but having said that I don't want an iphone, having found a phone that suits me just fine. so I will be staying with the blackberry I have on orange.