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Currently Student at Birmingham City University, studying Visual Communication. I like all things technology and everything that generally looks cool. I also play a lot of video games.

This blog is a place for me to reflect on things that I find interesting and worth sharing, some of my own work will be posted here as well.

Stuff champions are made of: P&G tribute to all moms

For the love of a mother / Born to succeed

Country: UK

Brand: Procter & gamble

Year: 2012

One month with Windows Phone.

Today marks my one month with Nokia Lumia 800 running Windows Phone 7.5. Being iPhone user for a long time, I feel that WP7 isn’t quite polished as iOS but works efficiently with the resources it’s got. Because of that, I find myself missing some of the features iPhone has, like having instant push notifications for social media, developer priority when it comes to app store and not having well optimised maps with compass.

What I like about Windows Phone 7 is that everything is designed under Metro style which by nature makes apps put content before chrome, typography play much large role of navigating though out UI and generally information flow is more efficient than on any other OS. Instead of having different apps for capturing music, scanning QR and Bar codes, translating a language from a picture - WP7 have everything build in in the search section, that’s one of the great examples of OS optimisation. Live Tiles are in a way similar to icons but have a better function, for example on iOS, user can see that he got notification by seeing  red circle with the number of notifications on the icon, that would be pretty much the extend of icon function on iOS and Android. With live tiles, app can show not just a number of notifications, but who it’s from and additional information, e.g my Guardian tile shows me the latest news and top stories from section I chose to pin, Travel Apps can show latest information about your flight (delays, gate etc.).

WP certainly is a different experience from iOS and Android: no more shiny glass buttons, no more “slide to unlock”. For only 2 years I think WP7 does pretty good for itself, considering that iOS and Android been around 2-3 years longer which is a bit deal in today’s terms.

Buying Windows Phone, I knew that developer interest isn’t there quite yet, a lot of services don’t have their official apps on Microsoft’s Market Place, but they can still be accessed with 3rd party apps. Overall I don’t regret switching to Windows Phone, at least in my case I don’t lose my app database since I still use my iPad2, that being said switching tablet for Windows one will be a difficult move to make.

5th - 11th of March 2012

Busiest week so far in 2012, working on DA&D project alone. Practically no gaming breaks, some days were allnighters.

Bourne series

I am a big fan of Bourne series ever since I watched 2nd one in the cinema. I remember I just came to Britain and was staying with my cousin in South Ealing, London. I did have my laptop with me but there wasn’t stable Internet connection so I was running out of things to do, so going cinema and generally exploring area was fun thing to do besides playing Warcraft3.

I like Bourne series for its realism, everything that he does is believeble and plausible in the rational mind. I guess subcousiouly people compare him to James Bond and for me, Jason Bourne is a obvious choice. Soundtrack, style of filming - all fit together so nicely, really create atmosphere of fast phase action film. The fact that they filmed in actual Russia, and of course being from the region myself, it was exiting expirince to see yellow “Volga” in a car chase.

On my title sequence project which I did in my 2nd year of university, I did lots of reserach on the film, like characters origins, locations etc, which gave me bigger picture about The franchise. It was in a way sad to see 3rd film, knowing there aren’t going to be another, since the plot ended for JB, but rumours about Legacy and possibility of Matt Damon coming back certainly kelp me hopefull.