Well not quite, just a very intense period of work and family holidays. I’ve been useless at blogging recently lets be honest! Well from now on normal service will be resumed.

I was going to go out and capture some shots of the fireworks last night but was distracted by the incredible brightness of the moon. It was constantly being covered by fast moving abstract clouds which produced an amazing halo effect. I didn’t bother to get one image of the fireworks! this was much more beautiful.

Because of the tube strikes most of London was forced to walk too and from work the last couple of days. I thought I would document this afternoons walk from Soho to Liverpool St station.

It’s actually been great fun and given me some much needed exercise, I should really walk at least once a week if the weather is god but I know it will never happen. Back on the tube tomorrow!

More updates of our great trip to Norfolk a couple of weekends ago. There is something amazing about being near the sea that you just can’t explain but it is very relaxing.

I spent a fantastic long weekend with the family and a few other couples up in Norfolk near a place with a superb name called Wells next the Sea. This really was the perfect antidote to the mad overcrowded rush that is London every day. It was a pleasure to have long lazy walks, kite flying on the beach, amazing old school beach huts and fresh fish and chips by the harbour. Very British and very perfect!

I will be putting more pictures up in the next couple of days.

Searching for reference material this morning through my bookshelves and found this old FUSE poster, nice coincidence with yesterdays post on the background of Mayaruler 1. As a student it was very exciting to see your name that close to Neville Brody’s!

One of the main reasons for starting this blog was to document my own personal design projects and Mayaruler 1 is such a project. This project started when I was at Salford University studying my degree, we were invited to submit experimental typography ideas to Neville Brody’s experimental type series of FUSE fonts.

FUSE 15 was to be themed on cities and I along with three other students were lucky enough to have ours published.

Mayaruler 1 is based on Mayan writing system that has been termed ‘glyphic cartouche’, which is the equivalent to the words and sentences of a modern language. Maya cartouches include at least three to four glyphs and as many as fifty in some instances.

They are very intricate and are used for story telling or highlighting the importance of objects and buildings.

Interestingly there is no Maya alphabet.

However on finding the image below in a National Geographic magazine I decided to base my FUSE project on making my very own maya alphabet.

I very much wanted to update the glyphs visual appearance and make them almost little computer symbols (there has always been that mysterious link between ancient civilisations and aliens which is quite fascinating) so each glyph was constructed around a set grid and a tight set of rules.

The Maya were a very artistic and colourful race, they built beautiful cities with rich vibrant colours in clothing, buildings and art and this along with the work of Eduardo Palozzi inspired the screenprinted poster below.

I will be posting more on Mayaruler 1 and it’s FUSE connections. I also hope to start Mayaruler 2 this year and will document it’s developments in this blog.