Damien sent me a link to Australia’s hero soccer pro Harry Kewell’s Twitter page the other day. I didn’t get it (I’m still not twittering) but then he said “check out who Harry’s following”. Oh shiat! Mr Kewell’s following Australian INfront, haha, awesome!
INfront Nascence (version 4) launched in 2001.
I’ve been busy trawling through old drives and putting together an INfront Retrospective on the INfront forums. I founded The Australian INfront in 1999, and over the years a lot of content has gone missing offline, not to mention the names of people who really ought to be credited for making INfront what it is today.
It’s going to take a while to get all of this content back online, but it’s been a rewarding reflection for me already. I’m pretty sure I’ll get most of it up by the end of the month.
German lemonade.
My German beer of choice.
Der Jaeger, couldn’t help myself.
Feast to the left of me.
Feast to my right.
Back at the carpark I got to have a blat on a real scooter. Anoop’s scooter has 4 times the power of my Zoomer (200cc) and damn it showed, so grunty! I was crazy impressed ahaha.
On the 1st Wednesday of every month VWGolf.net.au has an open dinner catchup. The venue’s always up for revue and last night we hit Essen in Broadway. As good as Una’s? The venue looks nice, the seating was cozy, the food looked great but I still give it to Una’s!
Just finished this simple but effective logotype design for Motor Culture, an automotive advertising network.
Spotted this time attack monster at VSport.
Tubbed out.
Brakes, as you like.
Straight after my meeting with Advan this morning I headed out to VSport to see if the boys could work out a new front brake solution for my Golf GTI (I’ve managed to crack some slotted rotors with only 2 track days). Unfortunately there is no other alternative disc rotor that will bolt right on. It’s looking like I can either get some custom hats made up to hold aftermarket rotors ($$$) or they can modify some WRX one’s to suit. Either way I’m in good hands and they’re working on a solution for me.
Advan Neova Cup Competitor logo design.
Design as a sticker on a competing car.
T-Shirt design concepts.
I’ve been doing a little bit of design work for Advan. I’ve always thought that the Advan brand was cool. When I first got into JDM Style Tuning I’d see the old triangle Advan logo placed directly above the side indicators on a lot of JDM Honda DC2R’s (like so).
It’s not always easy to do work for things you love. It’s been an aim of mine for so many years (to be paid for what you love doing) but in retrospect doing crap for for crap clients is probably easier as you don’t have to invest so much of yourself into the job, and thus not place so much value on the outcome (I’ve done a LOT of horrible work which will never make it to my “portfolio”).
When Advan first launched in Australia (2009 Advan Industry night) I was in 2 minds about whether or not the Australian arm would get the culture right IE: Whether they’d have to ditch everything I loved about the Japanese Advan brand and make it suit an Australian motorsport market. It’s been a while since then and it’s looking like they’ve done really well, and going from strength to strength, especially with the World Time Attack Challenge.
I’m glad to have a foot in the door with them. Nothing is concrete as yet but I’ve been given the freedom to initiate and develop some exciting new future projects. Baby steps I suppose, baby steps!
