I just found out from my friend Richard Hewitt than London’s legendary venue The End is due to close it’s doors in January after 13 years of top-notch dance floor action.

I've got a personal attachment to the club as I've spent many late nights over the last five years making interactive flyers for my long standing client Sancho Panza’s regular night at the venue’s AKA bar. I’ve also spent many late nights / early mornings in the club itself.

Looking back over the flyers in a misty-eyed sort of way, my favourites are:


The big long street that took a whole year to make


The one with the lighter


The one with the stop motion electronic man


The one which loads random 70s photos from Flickr that I made while on my holidays in Bermuda


The one where the users helped to brighten up London


The one where you could play along with the music on a drum

I'll miss The End & AKA dearly but it’s not the last of my work for Sancho Panza. We’re currently working hard on a brand new website which will be launching later this year.

“But you’re totally wasting my morning as I helplessly wait for your designer’s dancing sausages to finish loading.”

Excellent post on 43folders.com entitled “Five Mistakes Band & Label sites make”.

On a side note, apologies for the lack of posting action on Sleevelessness in the last couple of weeks. I'm going through what is undoubtedly the busiest period of my career to date. Normal service will resume in September once I get back from my well deserved holiday. In the meantime I'll try to post the occasional thing to keep all you fabulous people interested.

Here’s this month’s e-flyer for my long-standing client Sancho Panza’s monthly night at The End & AKA club in London. Users can add a splash of colour to the city via some rather exotic feathered fauna.

I’ve been meaning to look into Clearspring’s widget platform for a while, so when I came across the In Rainbows widget on Mashable I thought I’d give the platform a quick test run from the end–user’s point of view. If you don’t know or care what a widget is then switch off now and wait for me to post about some more pretty pictures.

Posting the widget to my MySpace profile was really easy – I just popped in my username and password and chose which area of my profile I wanted to add the widget to. It was like taking candy from a baby that was asleep, and was giving away free candy.

Facebook was a different matter. I had to be logged into Facebook, after which posting the widget to my profile was straightforward. What actually ended up on my profile page was a bit of a joke however. An item appeared in my mini–feed declaring that I had “ posted a video”. The title of this video was “Widget”, and had I not written “Testing the Radiohead In Rainbows widget” in the optional “comments” field, my friends would have been left with no idea what the hell I had posted. This is quite simply crap.

Next I tried to post it as a blog post on Sleevelessness, which is powered by Blogger. I was expected to construct a blog post in the world’ smallest form and I wasn’t able to add any HTML tags, which meant I had to log into Blogger and edit the post manually. I would have been better off copying the embed code.

Don’t get me wrong, I think widgets are a great idea in principle – the idea of being able to create one application and plug it into a range of platforms is a very powerful one. It’s just a matter of both the widget platforms and the social networks working on their respective sides of the integration.

I just finished this month's user–generated flyer for my long–standing client Sancho Panza's monthly night at The End/AKA club in London. This month we're hopeful that spring is kicking in (despite today's shocking weather). Users can create a typographic flower from their name. Why not add yours?

More user–generated e–flyer business for Sancho. This time users lend a hand in brightening up dreary old February London.

I just finished this e–flyer for my long standing client Sancho Panza. It features some neat user–generated Flash trickery. Check it out here.

Muxicall is a collaborative music making tool created by Diana Antunes, a student on the New Technologies of Communication degree at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. It's based around the idea of up to 8 people improvising at once. Although there's no particularly ground-breaking technology here and the actual music making interface could be easier to use, it's a great idea and it's beautifully crafted too. The addition of a splash of colour (based on an Issac Newton theory apparently) for each musical note, means that when a few people are playing at once, the experience is quite mesmerising. Enjoy!