NYC Phoneharmonic

A truly brilliant medley of the most popular ringtones, performed by a small orchestra. Loved this piece from start to finish, great work indeed.

10 Great Adobe Illustrator Text Effects

I though it was about time I compiled a list of some of the tutorials I have found most useful in the past few months. Thanks to all the creators of these for taking the time to share their knowledge.

Round Emboss - License Plate Style

Glossy Smooth Text Effect

Simple Sticker Effect

Quick Airport Timetable

Glowing Neon Sign using the appearance palette 

Cartoon Style

 Grungy 3D

Editable Metal Type - Vectips

Polished Raised Type Treatment

Glassy 3D Effect

That's it for now, hope you find them as useful as I have. Stay tuned to my blog for new vector tutorials  I come across and maybe even some of my own coming soon!

Cardiff Met - The Graphic Spectacle

The Graphic Spectacle from Julian Deborré on Vimeo.

Always a great show to check out if you're in the Cardiff area. My old stomping ground of Cardiff Metropolitan University (formerly UWIC).

Great promo video too! Definitely recognise the shop at the start, think I must have lived round the corner from it.

The Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine is a tool hosted on the Internet Archive which sends you back in time on the internet! It may be nerdy, it may be incredibly boring to others, but I found it fascinating to took at the history of some of the major brands and how far both them and the web itself have come since the birth of the internet.

Here's some of my finds so far!

Clarks 1998 - MS paint style

Google 1998

Myspace.com 1996 - They definitely sold that domain name too cheap!

Blogger 1999

Wildlife; Strike Hard, Young Diamond

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Thanks to Grooveshark.com I discovered a great new band called Wildlife. They hail from Canada and are currently based in Toronto where they have been making music together since 2005.


Their debut album, 'Strike Hard, Young Diamond' is out now in all major record stores and online through your preferred provider. But even more exciting is the THREE FREE TRACKS!!! available simply by joining their mailing list.


Well worth checking out, downloading, putting on repeat and salivating your idie-rock mouths over. I definitely can't wait for some UK tour dates.

Guerilla Vinyl Throw

This brilliant viral campaign for mobile app MusicBunk has racked up more than 400,000 views on YouTube and taken less than a week to boost this brand out of the unknown. Read more about it on Mashable.com.


Like the infamous Extreme Beer Pong (many videos but this link goes to the one with the most hits on YouTube, Billy's Balls 2) it have no doubt that it's all real and all round great entertainment!

New T-Shirt Concept

Now my first T-shirt is up on Threadless I'm feeling pretty excited and inspired. So last night I put together this design for a new T-shirt concept. Inspired by Walls Cornetto and a childish love for all things mythical, I made the UniCornetto!

Comments and critique very welcome, especially on the type, as you can see this design is still in its infancy.




P.s. Another shout for the fantastic Threadless.com where I'm hoping this design will find itself soon.