The Podcast Empire Stikes Back

Posted 3 months ago

So a few months ago I launched my first podcast, Jelly and Bean. Earlier this month I recruited another, Wez Wanders. Today, I launched the third: Mobile Couch. Let me tell you all a little about them.

Jelly and Bean is a podcast about geek stuff. Every Friday, my co-host Branden Maynes and I discuss news about television, movies, games and technology (or anything else we’re interested in, really). We’ve just done our tenth episode and have a great year planned for 2013, including a couple of specials.

Wez Wanders is a fortnightly podcast about travel, hosted by the wonderfully bearded Nathan Brown of the Wez Wanders blog. He talks about travel related news, travel photography and provides handy tips about travelling, and every now and then he throws in an interview with a pal, just to keep things fresh.

The newest podcast in my empire is Mobile Couch, a podcast hosted by Caleb Thorson, Jake MacMullin and myself that deals mostly with development of mobile apps for the iOS platform. The first episode went live today, and despite starting out a little off-topic, provided some great suggestions on starting new development projects. If you’ve ever thought about creating your own app for iOS, then this is a great podcast to listen to, as we’ll be discussing everything from actual development, to designing apps, and right down to dealing with the business side of things. It’s set to be a great show.

I have a number of other plans for new podcasts, and I’m always interested to hear ideas for new shows if you have them. I hope you guys will join me as I expand into new areas and launch this little podcast empire of mine. I promise I won’t build any Death Stars or anything.

Posted 10 months ago

So now that people are starting to receive them… let’s talk about the wedding invites I did for Melissa and myself.

Digitally printed in full colour on 340gsm card, these are possibly the current peak of my design portfolio (don’t you love it when you get to save the best for yourself?). I spent several (as in more than 6) months on the illustrations for this, and a good portion of that is for the internal image.

Originally the image was more tied in to the design, and would have featured the details for the venues, but with a little bit of laziness and some rethinking, we decided to go with a layout that truly shows off the hard work that I put into these babies.

And the response has been amazing. So far I’ve had two people tell me that these are the best wedding invitations they’ve ever seen (hire me), and everyone has spent several minutes looking at the tiny details on the interior illustration. That alone makes me proud.

I’ll be publishing a post with some segments of the interior illustration in the next few days. So if you’re hoping to get a better look, then fear not… and stay tuned! I’ve published full-size sections of the interior illustration. Head to that post to check them out!

Posted 10 months ago

You can also see this in it’s full-size glory.

Today I released the website for our wedding into the world, including this super special little RSVP setup I put together over a few days. I just wanted to share it because I’m a tad proud of how smooth it is.

There’s also some stuff the video doesn’t show: first of all, you can change your mind and redo the process as many times as you want using the same code. Second of all, we instantly get an email to tell us your response and who is coming, so we can make the arrangements!

The invitations will officially go out by the end of next week. If you’re reading this and you don’t get one, then I’m sorry. Maybe next time? Also, weddings are expensive… please cut us some slack. 

Posted 2 years ago

Late last year, I got an email from a super awesome friend of mine. Her wedding was coming up, and her invites were not at all turning out how she’d hoped. She and her beau were planning to have a robot themed wedding, to celebrate the roots of their relationship: they originally met online through the art community deviantART and fostered their relationship almost entirely via the internet, since they both lived on separate continents.

After a few emails back and forth I kicked things off by designing their “Save the Date”, incorporating robot characters representing each of them, their colour scheme, and even a tid bit from one of their favourite shows: Futurama.

Then, following a month or two of massive procrastination on my part, I put together some designs for their actual invites, with robots kissing, some good ol’ dot matrix paper and a few cameos from sci-fi favourites: Zoidberg, Marvin, Bender and R2-D2. Some of those same images were used in their program (not designed by me), and on cupcakes given to guests at the wedding.

They loved the designs, and I was ecstatic to be able to gift this amazing couple with invitations that reflected who they are and what they love. I wish them many happy years together!

About Jelly

Designer, Illustrator, Developer, Writer, Musician. Total Adventure Time fan and guy who hearts Dinosaur Comics.

All these things describe Jelly, sometimes known as Daniel Farrelly. This is his blog.

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