News, noise and nonsense from Director & Designer Gavin Strange aka Jamfactory
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From The Den
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• Gavin Strange
Hello! This week I was lucky enough to take a trip to the states and give a couple of creative talks in glittery Los Angeles! Thanks to my friends at Media Arts Lab and Apple, I got to give a neon-soaked presentation covering craft and creativity, highlighted by the '
From The Den
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• Gavin Strange
Oh hai there! Sorry, it's been a few weeks hasn't it since the last roundup? That's why I've knocked off the 'weekly' from the title, I think these blogs will come a bit more sporadically! It's been a
From The Den
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• Gavin Strange
Aye up m'ducks! I had a funny Fathers Day this weekend... we were just about to head out for the afternoon, my son opened the door with my keys and in the flurry of stress that is trying to leave the house with 2 young kids, we shut
From The Den
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• Gavin Strange
Oh hai there! Happy Friday to you all, hope you're good. Aardman work is keeping me busy as always but I'm very excited to say that I've got a bunch of silly things keeping me very entertained in my own time! Jumping around with
From The Den
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• Gavin Strange
Hello hello! It's been a busy week in my own time, hopping around with different passion project odds and sods! First off, I finished writing a mega-blog about the making of the Beyond Tellerrand titles. It's a big ol' bugger, so make yourself a cuppa
From The Den
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• Gavin Strange
Behind the scenes of how I made and 'played' the title sequence for the creative festival Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf
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• Gavin Strange
Oh hai there! How goes it? This week I've been slowly sharing the different elements of the Beyond Tellerrand titles on my Insta and Bluesky, but I'm going to combine it all into one mega-BTS-blog here realllll soon. The excellent photographers from the event - Florian
From The Den
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• Gavin Strange
Guten tag! I'm a few weeks late in writing a round-up, but I've had my nose to the grindstone the last few weeks getting the Beyond Tellerrand 2025 title sequence ready, and I'm very happy to say that the titles went well over in
From The Den
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• Gavin Strange
Bonjour! A bit late with this roundup, but that's 'cause it's been a busy one this week. Still busy on secret things up at Aards, but plenty busy in the wee hours with the Beyond Tellerrand titles, as the event is just a few weeks
From The Den
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• Gavin Strange
Ello 'ello! The sun's out, isn't that nice!? Another busy week, Aardman stuff is keeping me nice and busy and in the evenings it's full steam ahead getting everything ready for the Beyond Tellerrand titles! I've been speaking to my friends
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• Gavin Strange
Oh hai there! Another week goes by, ultimately propelling us towards our inevitable demise. Still, the sun's been out a bit this week, that was nice! A busy week at Aards on secret stuff, so nothing to share there, but in the evenings I'm right in
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• Gavin Strange
Hey hey. It's been a much calmer week for me this week, as I was just back in Bristol, playing catch-up after being in Mexico for Paradiso festival. Not much to report really, been carrying on with some secret stuff during the day at Aards and then at
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• Gavin Strange
Hola amigos! I'm writing this to you from the dark depths of Mexico City airport, as this week I've been in Mérida, Mexico for the inaugural Paradiso festival, created by the one & only Héctor Ayuso!
It's been a wonderful
From The Den
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• Gavin Strange
Aye up m'ducks! I'm a bit behind again with me updates here on the blog, work has gone bonkers busy in the best way, and it's been a week of all over the shop, so this lil' update is a bit late!
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From The Den
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• Gavin Strange
Hello there pickle. It's been a bonkers week at work, with lots of exciting things happening, so I'm a bit late with this ol' weekly round-up.
First up, the awesome Stickerapp did an ace job of turning my 'FFFKSSAKE' graphic into shiny metallic
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• Gavin Strange
What a week! Blimey! First up some mega exciting news from Aardman... Wallace & Gromit Vengeance Most Fowl won TWO BAFTA's this weekend!! It picked up a pair of golden masks for 'Best Animated Film' and 'Children's & Family Film'!
The whole
From The Den
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• Gavin Strange
Hello you lovely person you. It's been a mad one this week so I gotta keep it brief! Aardman work has gone bonkers, which is brilliant, so my brain has gone from 10 - 100mph in a week, which I love!
Did a silly pixels thing in Pixaki
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• Gavin Strange
Ay up m'ducks! How's it going? Good I hope. All good here, thanks for asking. It's been a busy week, both at Aards and here at home too. In the evenings I've been mucking about with all sorts of stuff; the first
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• Gavin Strange
Oh hello there! This is the first 'weekly roundup' blog, where I just share what's been going on in my little corner of the world. Work stuff, life stuff, other stuff. Just stuff, y'know?
Big news from Aardman is that Wallace & Gromit Vengeance
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• Gavin Strange
I love making music. Love it. Loooooove it. I'm no good at it, but I love it regardless. There's just something so satisfying about the creative process of making a beat. It's very different to my normal process - with music, I just begin
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• Gavin Strange
That's it, I'm tearing myself away from the homogenisation of social media and am determined to build back a little bit of community again, of weirdness, of that 2000's-era novelty of crafting your own digital corner. So that is this place, I think!
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