Whoever said designers do no work is 100% right. 75% of the time anyway.

Could you imagine how boring our design work would be if we had to sit “working” all of the time. Which is why me and my mate Steve of Reeves-GFX have mostly been hanging out of the office windows this week wrestling with seagulls and soaking anyone who dare pass our creative headquarters with a £1 supersoaker. “You childish berks” i hear you cry. Who are we to disagree?

Our work is much better for it though

Easily the best music related software on the internet is it not?

I discovered spotify a few months ago after a friend sent me an invite. (by sent i mean i blagged one off him – him being a premium member and me being a cheapskate!). Anyhoo, spotify lets you stream millions of top quality music direct from the interweb. The software its self has a few different options. You can be a Free member (like me) which means you get the odd advert thrown in between songs, you can become a premium member – costs a tenner a month but makes spotify completely unlimited and eliminates all of the adverts. Alternatively you can purchase a “day pass” which means you go ad free for 24 hours – ideal if you’re having a party.

Spotify does what itunes can but better – at least you can get more than 30 seconds of a song, and you can completely sync your iphone/ipod with spotify – easy. I would recommend this software to absolutely anyone – click the image on the left and check it out for yourself

We all know how karma works, so I’m a bit pissed off as i reckon I am owed some. On Saturday night I was lying in bed watching TV and I could here a lot of shouting going on outside which I thought nothing of as the area I live in isn’t the quietest. Anyway the shouting continued so I thought is go out and investigate. Our house faces south but the ones over the road face east so I couldn’t really see if anything was happening from my window.

I went outside and took a little walk round the corner of the street to see where the noise was coming from – as I looked over I seen the old man from the house opposite lying face down outside of his front door shouting “help me!” I ran over to see what had happened. The old man put his hand out for me to help him up. Last time he fell it took 3 of us to lift him so there was no way I could get him up on my own. I tried to speak to him but the bloke is as deaf as a doorknob, add that to the fact he’d had a right skinfull there was no way I was getting any sense out of him. From looking at him it looked like he’d used his nose to break the fall – it was in a right mess so I called for the ambulance. The paramedics turned up a few minutes later, got him cleaned up and into his house. They asked him if he wanted to go to hospital, he said no so the paramedics asked him to sign a piece of paper and they were on their way. Once they had left I Hung around for a few minutes just incase the old man needed anything.

He wanted to go to bed so I helped him stand up onto his zimmer frame so he could get on his way. He got up with the help of the frame and fell straight back over using his shoulder to break the fall this time around. I’m a big lad myself and there’s no way I could get him up. This fall did not warrant wasting more of the emergency services’ time do I was unsure what to do. Luckily he had one of those home care intercom things so I pressed the panic button and was connected to an operator. I explained the situation, was told to hang about and someone would be out shortly. Around half an hour later two female carers turned up and I left them to get on with it. I don’t live in the nicest area of Sunderland so god knows what would have happened if I hadn’t found him. Anyway the following morning I got up. Went to go in the shower and managed to break my toe in the process. The pain was unreal! Karma? My arse. I think I should put the lottery on this week.

Back on April 24th I was made Godfather for the first time when my friends in doncaster, john & katie gave birth to little Alfie Jay. (well john didn’t give birth obviously, that would just be silly). Before Alfie was born I made sure he was kitted out correctly by buying him an England kit (just in time for the world cup) and also his first Sunderland kit (to make sure those plastic man yoo fans don’t get in first. Anyway, I have attached a picture of AJ for anyone who may be interested. I can’t wait until he’s old enough for me to take him and his brother Jack to their first Sunderland match.

I have recently switched my blackberry for a HTC desire. The desire is running googles very own mobile software, Android. Android has allowed me to install a WordPress app that let’s me post to my blog no matter where i am so expect more frequent ramblings from me. Who knows, maybe one day ill actually get this website finished!

Welcome to JamieCollinsDesign.com V2. After a few broken promises i had to move the website to a new host, unfortunately with the move i lost all of my content, including my design work, all of the articles i had posted, etc, etc. So i am now in the process of rebuilding the site. First thing on my to do list is the Brothers In Arms stuff! Anyhoo, the site is still pretty much work in progress, i am happy with the new look but there’s a lot to be done – There’s not enough hours in the day! If you need some work to be done search for jamiecollinsdesign on facebook and contact me via there in the mean time. Toodles for now. Just so you know as well im busy figuring out how i can let you all join and post on my site just using your facebook details. Watch this space.