Blue Jay Designs

^{Brand identity is no longer about a static and isolated brand marque that appears on the top right of letterheads and brochures. Any modern, dynamic branding system must now embrace highly digital and environmental applications – and this could not be truer than for the Olympics. In five years time we’ll be viewing the identity on mobile phones, mobile TV and living signage and not as a static two-dimensional graphic. As an avatar-style graphic it lends itself to animation, flexible application and adoption by its young target audience.}

^{Your thoughts and comments are welcome.}

^{It seems like even Photoshop isn’t safe from our mad world these days, with politicians in the UK and France calling for legislation to regulate digital retouching, tucking, and smoothing of images in ads and other advertisements.}

^{The reasoning behind this madness is to police fantasy Photoshopping - as is all too usual in such cases - to protect those delicate flowers: impressionable youth.}

^{Watch this space!}

^{Steve Jobs. It’s possible you may not have heard of the man — You will have noticed him though. He co-founded Apple Computers in the late 60’s, gave the world the iPod, Pixar, the iPhone and the modern GUI.}

^{But what of the man himself ? Today I am writing this not because of the amazing modern designs, gadgets and world changing idioms that he has give us all. No, today this is a very personal note of respect and admiration for Mr Jobs.}

^{You see, he was diagnosed with cancer some 2 years ago and recently underwent a liver transplant as a result. After going through this life changing event he then appears at a key Apple conference urging the audience to become organ donors.}

^{I too suffer from a serious liver condition that may one day also require a transplant for me to go on. To know one is suffering from such a condition and to then refuse to lie down and give up demands respect. To actively use the opportunity to further the cause in order to selflessly help others you do not even know is truly the mark of a great Man. Steve Jobs.}

^{Simon
Owner and founder of Blue Jay Designs Ltd.}

^{Whilst looking through the Worth1000 website I came across a Photoshop competition where artists were asked to imagine that the renaissance period in art with the monsters.
There’s some pretty freaky works submitted, and a lot of them are very good! One of my favorites was this scary looking Mona Lisa below (Scary Lisa). There’s also Mona Satan and another scary Mona Lisa.}

^{Here’s something for you crazy art lovers. The Geostationary Banana Over Texas project hopes to put a giant banana over Texas.}

^{The artist behind the Banana Over Texas work is César Saez. Saez plans to put the banana between the high atmosphere and earth’s lower orbit for about one month. It will be visible to Texans with the naked eye, day and night.}

^{Everything is bigger in Texas.. even the giant bananas floating in the sky.}

^{For those that live on a dirt road and are tired of washing your car, why not take advantage of the situation and make art out of your dirty windscreens? That’s what the artist Scott Wade did. He evolved from writing things like “wash me”, to smiley faces, to intricately detailed portraits and copies of famous paintings.}

^{The artist has his own website and has plans to publish a book when he gets enough pictures together. There’s also a video of the artist at work on a Mazda 3 owned by his wife.}

^{The Blue Jay team are very excited to announce our latest site. Blue Jay Systems was launched at the end of last week. The main purpose of the site is to let our new customers know that we offer far more than Graphic and Web Design services by providing a portal site that then links to our 3 sub sites.}

^{We hope you like the design as much as we do, but please feel free to let us know your comments and suggestions to help improve our services.}

^{Kenna’s photography focuses on unusual landscapes with ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours. His work has been shown in galleries and museum exhibitions in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. He also has photographs included in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Patrimoine photographique in Paris, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 2000, the Ministry of Culture in France made Kenna a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2006, Kenna wrote the preface to Humans, a photo-series by Iranian photographer Mohammadreza Mirzaei.}