Pretty Shitty City

I’ve recently left my old job (at Web Media Works) to start up as a freelance designer, trading as The Colour Mill.

My main service will be graphic design, and Im already working on flyers, magazines and websites, and I also have more time to promote Pretty Shitty City and Ice Cream Social.

As you should all know, I’m interested in working on underground, grass-roots projects with creative and ethical values, especially within the local community. So if you need any design work done, please head over to my new site:

http://www.thecolourmill.co.uk/

Thanks, Benjy.

Heres a gallery of drawings from Samuel Jones an illustrator studying at Swansea Met.

Thanks to Benjy (that’s me ) for sending us this month’s header design, if you’re wondering; its a scan of my brand new sketch book. Its still pretty much empty at the moment but I thought the binding looked nice.

I’ve updated my personal blog recently so if you fancy a look at some of my drawings and pointless mutterings, please check it out www.thelab7.com.

If you’d like to contribute a design, photo, illustration etc. for next month’s header then please email us at hello@prettyshittycity.co.uk.

Images should be supplied in JPEG (or similar) and atleast 750 pixels wide by 280 pixels tall.

The Swansea Arts Forum Trust (SAFT) are an organisation that promote arts and culture in Swansea. You can check out their new website here http://www.swanseaartsforum.org/.

Be sure to sign up to their newsletter too! If you’re interested in art events and opportunities in Swansea and South Wales its a great resource.

Thanks to Dilac, aka Dan Spinks, for sending us this month’s header design… and very festive it is too.

Dilac is an illustrator and painter and the main design honcho for Exist Clothing, you can check out his online portfolio here: http://www.dilac2003.com/

If you’d like to contribute a design, photo, illustration etc. for next month’s header then please email us at hello@prettyshittycity.co.uk.

Images should be supplied in JPEG (or similar) and atleast 750 pixels wide by 280 pixels tall.

Poq’s debit single ‘Red Admiral’ is available to download now from iTunes and almost all good online record shops.

You should buy this, not just because they’re from Swansea and they’re nice blokes, but because the songs are great and theres a cracking glitchy-electro remix by Lifting Gear Engineer too. The iTunes download costs £3.16, includes 4 tracks and, huzzah!, its DRM free.

Apparently a plastic version is on the way too, and theres a launch party in the big city (Cardiff) - check out Housefly Records for more info.

http://www.houseflyrecords.com/

Whoops, nearly forgot to plug this.

Its Ice Cream Social* #2 this Saturday at Sin City. We’ve got live music from Pipeworks & The Afterglow, and DJs Chairman Wow!, LGE & me (Benjy).

The £3 entry gets you entry to Sin City’s alt 80s night: Spandex Ballet too, but we’ve got animations and sweets to tempt the kids upstairs.

It all kicks off at 11pm so please arrive early to catch the bands!

http://www.icecreamsocial.co.uk/

Hidden Labels is a Swansea based tshirt and clothing dealer. They specialise in importing only the finest underground brands and with some fresh new stock in we recommend checking out the designs on offer at the Hidden Labels website, where you can buy online with worldwide shipping.

Hidden Labels tshirts are also available in store at Vinylism (above Derricks).

Thanks again to Dan Penman for sending another of his photos to us for our monthly header design.

Dan is an amateur photographer, currently experimenting with Lomography and studying Art & Design in Swansea, you can see some more of his photos on his flickr page Polygon Window.

If you’d like to contribute a design, photo, illustration etc. for next month’s header (lucky no.13) then please email us at hello@prettyshittycity.co.uk.

Images should be supplied in JPEG (or similar) and atleast 750 pixels wide by 280 pixels tall.

Geekthree is new podcast from three Swansea web designers (including me!). Each episode we chat about:-

Tech News - anything from new websites & gadgets, music to terrorists.

Pitch an Idea - we each cook up a potentially-clever/probably-stupid idea for a new website.

Our Week - if you’ve ever done some creative work for a client then you should be able to relate to this feature, as we moan about annoying client problems, and sometimes just chat about life.

Head over to our website where you can find out a bit more, read the blog and listen to our podcast.

http://www.geekthree.com/

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