James Bull - Media Dude » Creativity

Finally Got My Foot In The Door…

James — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:15:15 +0000

I’ve got some great news people, I have officially started my new job at WAX Partnership, here in Calgary, AB. WAX is an amazing award-winning design agency that is looking to expand into the digital realm and have hired me as their first digital developer.

I’m incredibly lucky to be able to work with this amazingly talented group of people, and I can’t wait to work on some amazing projects. Thanks to everyone for helping me get here, the teachers at SAIT, everybody at Snowboarder Magazine, and finally all my friends and family. You can read a great article about WAX in an back-dated issue of Applied Arts.

Click to visit WAX's website

Return to Thunderdome

James — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:21:26 +0000

With all the kids starting back at school, the summer has finally come to a close. If it weren’t for the numerous snowboard video premieres coming in the next few weeks, I’d probably be bummed. But I’m not. Soon the sky’s will turn grey and the clouds will unleash that beautiful white fluffy powder, and snowboard season will be here.

I’m really looking forward to a good winter. Having completed my internship with Snowboarder Magazine, I am back from California. It was an incredible opportunity to redesign and rebuild Snowboarder’s website from scratch. I learnt an incredible amount in the 8 weeks of design and development, and am looking forward to continuing development on their site! The guys at the mag are a great group of people, and so HUGE shoutouts to everybody back there in Cali!

Since being back for almost 3 weeks, I’ve only spent 2 nights in my own bed. For some reason, I’ve decided to travel throughout the interior of British Columbia and elsewhere. I kind of feel like Mad Max, hence the post title. I’ve also been spending some time in Vancouver and have really taken to this city. I’m going to do my best to actually move out here and spend at least a year on the coast. The fact that the ocean and the mountains are so close is incredible, and I don’t want to miss the opportunity to experience the city. And speaking of ocean’s I leave you with a pic of me learning to Wake-Surf. It’s not really an ocean, its just Shuswap Lake, but enjoy nonetheless.

3rd Day Wakesurfing

The 99% Conference Summary

James — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:54:13 +0000

I recently visited New York City for a conference about “Making Ideas Happen”. The 99% Conference, stressed that their conference wasn’t about ideas, but about making them happen. There were some amazing speakers and I wanted to share what they wanted to teach us. NoDejaVu.com has some amazing summaries and here is just a tid-bit, go ahead and read more about all the 99% Conference coverage.

“The Obama campaign, was the first to fully integrate web and print design as a whole for more consistency. The process was an ongoing work and as he explain: “We were truly making an airplane while on flight.” The website changed a lot since the first launch, but they really needed to get it up and running. It was in constant evolution. During this campaign, it was very important to deliver a clear and consice message and keep sending the message of hope. The team gave the feeling like Obama was already President.”

- from Meet Scott Thomas, NoDejaVu.com

New Nike Hi-Tops!

James — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:08:07 +0000

I just found out through highly reputable sources that Nike will be releasing a new Hi-top in 4-6 weeks! Found out who’s designing them too! The infamous Jimmy Bones!

Yes, yours truly, went to the Nike ID studio and designed his own Hi-top! Check out the pictures below!

NYC Day 1 – Inspiring Ideas

James — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:02:53 +0000

Today marked Day 1 of the Behance’s 99% Conference, and included talks from 10 extremely influential new media professionals. I’ll go into detail of the talks in the near future, but I just wanted to post some photos that I took of today, enjoy!

Looking at Times Square!

Scott from Behance talks about ideas in the workplace

Josh from CoolHunting.com introduces the conference

The back of the New York Public Library

GoMediaZine Tutorial – Composition

James — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:03:24 +0000

I just wanted to share something with everyone! I finished reading a great tutorial on design composition earlier, and it was a great and honest read. It was written by the good folks over at GoMediaZine and you can check it out here:

Rule Seven: Composition: Putting It All Together

Abduzeedo Tutorial

James — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:19:04 +0000

Just finished a really fun Abduzeedo tutorial. It plays around with retro geometric vectors, took around 30min to complete and was a blast to work on. I’m hoping to take some of the textures and techniques to other pieces that I am currently working on, I’ll hopefully have something posted soon. So let me know what you think!

The 99 Percent – A Behance Conference

James — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:05:04 +0000

Well in exactly 4 weeks, Graeme Duckett and myself will be flying to New York City to attend The 99 Percent Conference, put on by the lovely people at Behance.

This looks to be a radical 2-day conference, take a look at who’s speaking:

Michael Bierut – Partner, Pentagram
Cheryl Dorsey – President, Echoing Green
Seth Godin – Author & Blogger
Jill Greenberg – Photographer
Robert Hammond – Co-Founder & President, Friends of the High Line
Jeffrey Kalmikoff – CEO, Threadless
Jake Nickell – CSO, Threadless
Ji Lee – Creative Director, Google Creative Labs
Jason Randal – Theorist on Developing Expertise
Scott Thomas – Design Director of New Media, Obama for America

We’re pretty pumped on the opportunity and are looking forward to meet these people and hear what they have to say. If your going to be there, let us know! And we’ll hang out, maybe drink some beers? Who knows, might even grease a dancefloor or two! Heck ya!