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Blogin’ ’bout life is the section in which I talk about everyday things. Everything from upcoming projects to what I saw on the buss can end up in here.

Wine Branding – Logo

Posted in: Uni work, Wine Project | February 6, 2013 at 6:28 am , by Alexander Gwynne

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I decided on a type writer style font mixing the capitial and lower case letters. I figured that the target audience is people who don’t care about wine, and just want to get drunk so don’t really care. I took inspiration from punk work to try and give it that “we don’t give a...

Wine Branding – Bottle Design

Posted in: Uni work, Wine Project | February 6, 2013 at 6:23 am , by Alexander Gwynne

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Now I have some ideas to play around with, I want to create a unequal looking bottle to hold the wine....

Wine Branding – Concepts

Posted in: Uni work, Wine Project | February 6, 2013 at 6:17 am , by Alexander Gwynne

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As part of my university course I’m re-branding a wine line to make it a “cool brand”. Me being who I am, I have know little about “cool” but we’ll see how things go....

How Did The Industrial Revolution Effect Art?

Posted in: Art History, Uni work | January 12, 2013 at 3:01 pm , by Alexander Gwynne

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Here’s a video I’ve made for my Art History project. ...

Bloggin’ ’bout life “15 : Ramble ramble

Posted in: Just blogging | May 29, 2012 at 10:20 am , by Alexander Gwynne

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As some of you might know, a week ago I was doing the first part of a BBC show called “Be Your Own Boss” which was…interesting to say the least. The main thing I noticed is how much it pushed me out of my comfort zone. The first way in...

Letter of recommendation.

Posted in: Just blogging | May 14, 2012 at 6:05 pm , by Alexander Gwynne

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The other day I received a letter of recommendation from none other, than Jennifer Bryan (AKA Creature Kebab). And it was so good, I figured I’d share it....

So now we’re doing Facebook.

Posted in: Just blogging | May 12, 2012 at 9:25 pm , by Alexander Gwynne

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I’ve got to be honest, I didn’t really want to make a Facebook page for A.G.papertoys mainly because then it becomes a matter of trying to get “Likes” and it becomes a competition with everyone else in the world to get “Likes”....

Bloggin’ ’bout life #14 – Why is nothing happening?

Posted in: Just blogging | April 23, 2012 at 5:11 pm , by Alexander Gwynne

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So..you may have noticed that nothing’s been going on on the site including the free papertoy of the week. Long story short, things are being designed behind the scenes but I’m playing a waiting game with a few different things. Thanks to those who noticed and e-mailed in to see...

Vlog/Blog ’bout life #13 : Fudge funding

Posted in: Just blogging | March 24, 2012 at 8:40 pm , by Alexander Gwynne

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Here’s a day in vlog form. It’s been an interesting day, full of excitement. My finding came through so it’s time to get some new equipment and work on the studio. For now, just watch this vlog....

Vlog/Blog ’bout life #12 : Worlds smallest crowed

Posted in: Just blogging | March 24, 2012 at 7:14 pm , by Alexander Gwynne

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So, I had a very strange day. It started off as the usual designer day, but I was booked to do a talk about myself and A.G.papertoys at half past seven in the evening....

Bloggin’ ’bout life #11 : Badger with a fez

Posted in: Just blogging | February 6, 2012 at 9:44 pm , by Alexander Gwynne

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It’s been a roller-coaster week and not just because I feel like throwing up now it’s over. Earlier in the week I gave a short talk about myself and what A.G.papertoys is up to to a small crowd of 60. Long story short, I killed they laughed when they where meant to and didn’t shout out...

Bloggin’ ’bout life #10 : Best awards worst wine

Posted in: Just blogging | January 25, 2012 at 5:00 pm , by Alexander Gwynne

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We’ve reached double digits baby! I was recently a runner up for the ‘emerging entrepreneurial talent’ award at the 2012 Sheffield Business Awards. So I was invited to come to the Sheffield Business Awards event. This once again meant I had to wear a suit. Little did I know that...

Bloggin’ ’bout life #9 : Gwynne don’t quit

Posted in: Just blogging | January 24, 2012 at 8:48 pm , by Alexander Gwynne

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Over the last week or so I’ve been attending a lot of events, and as usual nothing is ever simple or easy. The first event was a seminar on social media. I had to wear a suit for the seminar, something that I hate doing....

Bloggin’ ’bout life #8 : Visual music

Posted in: Just blogging, Uni work | January 16, 2012 at 1:42 pm , by Alexander Gwynne

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So I’m finally getting the hang of Photoshop, admittedly all the papertoys I’m designing at the moment are a Frankenstein’s monster mixture of Photoshop and Powerpoint, but I’m getting there. One of my university projects at the moment is visual communication, a sub-task of this was to visually communicate a piece of music without using any lyrics. I chose “Valley Of The Mountain King” for...

Bloggin’ ’bout life #7 : A happy new year

Posted in: Just blogging | December 31, 2011 at 11:59 am , by Alexander Gwynne

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And so we reach 2012 and the website goes live…finally. So I thought I’d do a quick blogpost explaining what’s going to be happening with the website in the next 365 days....

Bloggin’ ’bout life #6 : Christmas time

Posted in: Just blogging | December 26, 2011 at 1:19 am , by Alexander Gwynne

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It’s Christmas Day, and the realm of soft news goes back to focusing on kittens and sports rather than the Ambition AXA Awards. My short time in the dim spotlight of the media is over and now the blog can get back to being about papertoys and graphics rather than newspapers and...

Bloggin’ ’bout life #5 : Finals for AXA

Posted in: Ambition AXA Awards, Just blogging | November 23, 2011 at 11:29 pm , by Alexander Gwynne

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It’s been a strange mixture of activities over the last few weeks, with everything from paperwork (and not the kind you can fold up) to photo shoots. A lot of activity has come of the back of the Ambition AXA Awards. I am in the final 15 for the award along with the...

Blogin’ ’bout life #4 : YEC Manchester

Posted in: Just blogging | October 26, 2011 at 11:48 pm , by Alexander Gwynne

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After waking up at the crack of dawn to do some quick commission work, I left to go to Manchester with the Y.E.C (young entrepreneur club) to learn about how different businesses are run in Manchester. After an enjoyable journey comparing marketing strategies with Wasim from Khalifa Marketing we arrived at the Manchester museum....

Blogin’ ’bout life #3 : Dinosaur problems

Posted in: Just blogging, Work in progress | October 22, 2011 at 5:20 pm , by Alexander Gwynne

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I’ve been embarking on new projects this week, mainly doing sketch work for clients, and commercial projects. The main of which is a set of dinosaur papertoy cards in a brand called “I Dinosaur This And Though Of you”....

Bloggin’ ’bout life #2 : Pitching

Posted in: Just blogging | October 12, 2011 at 8:10 pm , by Alexander Gwynne

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It’s been another busy week here at A.G.papertoys, but before I get into what I’ve been up to, here are some pictures of me pitching at the MADE festival with judges Paul Boross, author of The Pitching Bible and Marcus Waley-Cohen, founder of Firefly Tonics....

Bloggin’ ’bout life #1 : Building Bigger

Posted in: Just blogging, Uni work, Work in progress | October 5, 2011 at 7:22 pm , by Alexander Gwynne

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This 70cm tall toy was originally created as a prop for a business pitch during the MADE business festival. I knew I wanted to bring a big papertoy design so the crowd as well as the people judging me on the quality of my pitch would be able to see , but I...