Creative Swell Blog

New Tees only $20

Andy Law — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:14 +0000

New tees are available now from my online store over at mysoti.com. I’ve added four new designs all inspired by movies and TV shows I know and love. Juno, Star Wars, Darjeeling Limited and Lost. These tees are printed one-off from either California or England depending where you are in the world. You have your choice of tee color and you can pick either a generic or an American Apparel (recommended) tee. Thank you for buying my shirts and wanting more! Visit my store by clicking here.

Amazing 3D Photography

Andy Law — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:26:14 +0000

These 3D photographs were produced with a NIMSLO 3D Camera. These photos actually move and render the objects in varying degrees of 3D, you have to see these picture. Check out the 3D photos after the jump.

Click here to see more photos.

747 Gets a time-lapsed paint job.

Andy Law — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:54:07 +0000

And you thought painting that spare bedroom you had was work? Checkout this time-lapsed 747 getting a new coat of paint for Virgin Atlantic.

Virgin Atlantic plane livery time-lapse movie from johnson banks on Vimeo.

August – My top iPhone 4 Apps

Andy Law — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:11:07 +0000

Living in Germany waiting for your visa does have it advantages; lounging around the flat, swimming in a beautiful lake and staying updated on my favorite iPhone 4 apps, just to name a few. This month I’ve started a new feature on my blog which if you have not already figured it out will be testing iPhone 4 applications. The following applications have been tested and proven to be productive, addictive and/or helpful. Let me know what you think of these apps in the comment section below.

SoundHound is a music identification application for the iPhone. It works just like Shazam only better. Simply hold your phone next to the device playing a song and click the”tap here” button. SoundHound will do the rest. You can also search by the title or artist of a song. The interface includes History, What’s Hot and Now Playing tabs which help you to navigate around your music world. SoundHound can be downloaded FREE (5 identifications are free every month) or you can purchase unlimited IDs for $4.99.	Rowmote is an application that allows your iPhone to take control over your mac. You can change applications, switch through your iTunes library or just increase your computers volume. The app sells for ($.99) cents and has an upgraded features option for just a few dollars more. The developer states that the application works just like apple hardware with over 30 different applications. This is a must have app for anyone that watches movies or video slideshows from their macs.
ShakeitPhoto gives your personal photography a vintage Polaroid effect. I’ve used this application for most of my German photography which can been seen in action on my last post (Life In Germany). I’d recommend this application for anyone that uses their iPhone camera regularly. The application sells for ($.99) cents and can be used to take photos automatically applying the effect or you can simple select a photo from your photo library and “shake it”. The application produces a Polaroid sound and “prints” your image out, all you need to to do develop the image is to shake your iPhone. This is a cool app for photogs.	Skype for the iPhone is one of the best application around. It allows you to stay in touch with your friends and family around the world for just a few pennies a minute ( or for Free if your on WiFi, Skype to Skype). You can also keep tract of chats, who’s online and your Skype credit all from within the application. The Skype application is FREE and allows me to stay in touch while I’m living abroad.
TextPLUS provides users with free app to app text messaging worldwide. I use this application to send my friends text messages even if they don’t have an iPhone. The application is FREE and allows you to keep track of your conversations, message multiple recipients at one time or join a TextPLUS community and chat with random strangers. The TextPLUS application is free but comes with general distracting advertisements, you can remove these ads for one year at a time ($2.99).	Hungry Sharks – Part 2 is a very addictive iPhone game that uses the tilt controls to navigate your hungry shark. Part 2 of the game ($.99) gives you access to two levels where your shark has even more to feast on. WARNING if you are prone to iPhone game addiction you better be careful of this one. The game takes you through an underwater land with plenty of prey to eat including; jet skiers, schools of fish, pelicans, license plates and even a gigantic king crab.

Life in Germany

Andy Law — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:47:36 +0000

I’ve lived in Germany for a week now and I’m finding life here interesting (in a good way!). This is the first time I’ve lived abroad in a country that does not speak my native language. I’m leaning to speak German from my Rosetta Stone software as well as my friends and daily interactions with the local people.

I’m hoping my design style will be influenced by the sights and sounds of Europe. Design inspiration is everywhere, from architecture, clothing and the local food, not to mention the graphic art that I see while walking around the city.

I’ve started to design t-shirts (Link Here)while living here and look to use local inspiration on a few new projects. If you have any questions about life here in Europe feel free to email me at andy@creativeswell.net

Creative Stationary Design: Zombies

Andy Law — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:19:34 +0000

This creative yet disturbing stationary comes from Germany’s Jung von Matt AG for the 13th Street Television Station. This branding project includes, stationary, envelopes and cards. Whilst these gruesome images are not appropriate 99.9999% of the time Jung’s creativity and attention to detail need to be featured. I would love the need to create something this graphic and gruesome. What do you think of his creation?

Graphic Shirts Available – Online Store

Andy Law — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:59:32 +0000

Tee designs are online now and available for purchase. Shirts available in 15 different colors for men, women and children. Click the green arrow below to be re-directed to the online store. Shirts are less than $20 each!

More design will be available shortly. Your purchase supports this website and my European travels.

I want to live here.

Andy Law — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:41:41 +0000

Check out this tropical dream house in Singapore. This might be the only reason I would ever live there. Great design from Singapore based design firm Guz Architects. More pics below.

Did you buy an iPhone 4?

Andy Law — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:19:25 +0000

The iPhone 4 was released just yesterday. So, the question is…Did you get your hands on one? and are you having any issues?

iPhone 4 Released – Valley Fair

Andy Law — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:17:47 +0000

Check out the extremely long line for the release of the iPhone 4 at Valley Fair mall in Santa Clara CA this morning at 7:00AM. I was not about to stand outside and wait with a thousand people to get the new iphone 4 so I thought I’d drive the line and show you how big this release is to the people of Santa Clara. I have reserved my iPhone but this line (judging by other posts line moving time equations) would have taken almost 5 hours to process. Most stores are reporting 5-9 hours for customers with reservations and 9+ hours for those without.

iPhone 4 Release Line from Andy Law on Vimeo.