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Install Wizard – sure does a clean install

Well it is that time of year again! Birthday time for a fellow Point 6 work colleague and this year it is for Vijay – our IT and web guru. As usual I wanted to do something that would reflect what he does and something that was a little less run-of-the-mill. So after I heard Vijay and a colleague chatting about him being an ‘Installation Wizard’ I thought there might be some mileage in this for his birthday card.

So as a result of this, I set about setting up/redrawing a Mac installation progress bar for the front of the card with the title ‘Birthday Update’ and showing a progress bar that is nowhere near finished but has a time of zero days remaining – a little IT  joke in that progress bars, particularly those on PCs, when installing are never accurate! Just added a little touch like typical web file names and the number of items (people’s signatures) installed/signed inside the card.

Then on the inside I added my own personal message which was based on the first verse of the Pinball Wizard song by The Who with certain words substituted at key points along the way…

Ever since I was a young boy
I used a mouse which had a ball
From Queens Park down to Soho
I must have used them all
But I ain’t seen nothing like him
In any studio at all…
That Mac magician Vijay
Sure does a clean Install!

Happy Birthday! Install Wizard

Oh and I also produced a personalised mug for him to have at work…

install_wizard_mug

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The evolution of man, on a Brompton

As part of our yearly routine at Point 6 Design one lucky work colleague has to organise a birthday celebration for a fellow colleague in the form of a card and a gift. It fell upon me earlier this year to organise this for a colleague who is very keen on cycling. He commutes into Victoria on the train and then from there cycles on his Brompton to work.

I thought it was only fitting that I share his love of cycling with his fellow work colleagues and produce for him a personalised greetings card with a difference. On the front I did an illustration of the evolution of man (that we are all I am sure familiar with) and just added him on his bike as the last stage in the evolution process.

2013_brompton_birthday_card

On the inside of the card it was more personalised with a bunch of abstract sections of bike (photographs taken from my son’s bike) spelling out his name.