OxCreative
2010
It’s been 2 months exactly since my last post and its been a busy 8 weeks (I’ve definitely been neglecting OxCreative.com!)
So much has changed and it seems like a lifetime ago I had any time to even consider posting on the site, playing some PS3 or even finding time to read. This is mainly all down to one thing… Ralphy!
We’ve had Ralphy for 7 weeks (since he was 7 weeks old!) and boy oh boy is he a handful. Now you may be thinking “I just see a picture of a cute puppy sleeping – he doesn’t look that bad!?!”
That’s mainly because it’s the only time I can get my camera out, the rest of the time i’m stopping him digging in the mud, chewing flowers, chewing shoes, chewing stones, hell the other day I even caught him chewing (more…)
2009
I’ve been with O2 for a very long time, in fact, since I have owned a mobile phone (it was BT cellnet back then, then Genie ( a subsidiary of BT Cellnet) and then it merged/got bought out and became O2 across Europe.
Now, I try to avoid blogging my rants but I read something today that really ‘took the biscuit’. It was an article on ITProPortal about Ronan Dunne and how he apologises for the poor o2 network coverage in London where people have been ‘unable to make calls’. Mr Dunne claims it is mainly due to that fact that smartphones (i.e. iPhone etc) using alot of data (more…)
2009
A few months back we ran a competition to get featured on OxCreative.com and whilst we had truckloads of entries, we could only pick one winner – the wonderful Kazumi Hirota.
Now it’s your chance to get some free exposure and get featured on OxCreative.com. All you need to do is send us an email with some examples of your work before 14th December 2009 and you could be featured on the site in January 2010!
Send your work to info@oxcreative.com and one lucky winner will be our main feature throughout January!
Good Luck!
2009
I’ve had the game for a couple of days now and it’s proving to be pretty addictive!
Online/Multiplayer
I finally got a chance yesterday to try out the online features and they (more…)
2009
So after a couple of months of using Snow Leopard I have come to a conclusion… if you decide to be an early adopter of technology, you pay for it in bugs/issues!
Ok so in all fairness, it loads up quicker and it shuts down a lot quicker…but besides that and some fancy animation effects, I am yet to see (more…)
2009
Hi OxFollowers,
as most of you have probably realised, we’ve been having a few technical difficulties recently.
The hosting company we’ve have been using for the last 4 years let us down… badly! Whilst we should have been backing up the data, we were under the impression that the hosting company were completing daily backups. In reality, they hadn’t backed up since early august and had a RAID-1 configured storage system. The first hard drive failed and the second had corrupted, losing all of the OxCreative posts since August 
We have a few posts that we can put back (hopefully we can recover the Tado and Kazumi Hirota interviews), and we are aiming to set up the Letraset competition again as soon as possible (the deadline will be extended to reflect the downtime).
In the meantime, we’ve switched to a new company with servers in the UK and US, fully redundant DNS and email clusters, daily backups and NAS used for storing server snapshots taken every couple of hours and with a RAID-5 configuration!
For those who have a website, make sure you back up your site (and databases!) as you never know what will happen!
2009
** This Competition has now closed **
To celebrate the launch of their 56 new Promarker colours, We’ve teamed up with Letraset to offer you the chance to win some fantastic products. Their Promarker range are great marker pens suitable for everyone from the hobbyist to the pro designer. What’s more Letraset have increased the colour variations to a whopping 148 colours!
** This Competition has now closed **
Entry Submissions must be completed before midnight (GMT) 22nd November 2009
We’ve got three great prizes to giveaway:
1st Prize
Tria 24 Visualisation set and a Bleedproof Pad
2nd Prize
Wallet of 24 ProMarkers plus Bleedproof Pad
3rd Prize
ProMarker 12 Pack plus Bleedproof Pad
To be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is click the button below and answer the question.
** This Competition has now closed **
2009
Last Month we ran a competition for a lucky artist or designer to be our september feature and here’s the winner: Kazumi Hirota.
Born and raised in the UK and a graduate of Central Saint Martins, she now resides and works in London. With a peculiar hand-drawn style, Kazumi creates worlds of bizarre creatures and characters and is not only an illustrator but animator too!
We thought we’d ask Kazumi a few questions: (more…)
2009
This Month OxCreative managed to get their grubby little hooves on the minds of Design Legends, Tado, for an exclusive interview!
For those who don’t know who Tado are (unlikely), they are a deliciously dynamic design duo from sunny England……ermmm well England at least. Their work has inspired a new generation of budding illustrators, designers, artists and animators across the globe and in fact, back in the early days offered me valuable advice which even lead me to focus on a career in design and illustration!
Tado’s menagerie of monsters has lead them to work with the likes of Nike, BBC, Kidrobot, Toy2r, Microsoft and many more – they even designed a nursery for Christina Aguilera!
2009
We are offering you the chance to have your work featured on OxCreative.com throughout the entire month of September 2009! Your will be featured in the main header (more…)