First in an occasional series of paintings of local scenes. Trying to work toward a looser style.

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First in an occasional series of paintings of local scenes. Trying to work toward a looser style.

A little late posting this but then I had to wait until I came out as an Instagram user.

Taken during a pause on track at the Chateau Impney Hill Climb. I do like this photo.
There are a couple more photos from the event up on my other* instagram account, which is more work focused, here.
*I know, instagram accounts like buses, a long wait like this and now two accounts arrive together 🙂

Recently I ordered an ‘easy to use’* phone from an online retailer…
I didn’t really pay much attention to what I’d ordered beyond the features and the reviews. When the phone arrived I switched it on to be greeted by a logo that looked familiar.
It seems I designed the logo for the company behind the phone that I’d just bought sometime around 2006/07. While the company has rebranded slightly, from TT Sims to TT fone, they kept kept the sim card design created as a part of their original website from way back then.

(I should add whoever converted is has squished it down and lost the slight bevel to card had, 3D was big in design back then you know! Call me biased but I’d say it looked a little better unsquished and beveled 🙂 )
Not the most exciting post perhaps but when you do work for the web you find there isn’t much that stays around all that long, let alone ten years or more. Even though this isn’t perhaps my finest design moment, it was great to see… Though I now also feel old.
*Not for myself I am now fully smartphone equipped, though admittedly it did take me quite a while to come around to them.
I do quite like photo blogging, see The view from the office, but at the same time I really couldn’t face another social network and I kind of enjoy doing it anonymously* or at least without much thought or the pressure I feel if I’m putting my name to the images.
I signed up for Instagram a while back, admittedly under my own name, but I didn’t use it very much other than uploading the occasional image I’d taken that I liked or that marked something specific. I didn’t post any descriptions or tags, just liked having a photoblog I didn’t have to think deeply about. I also enjoyed the additional task of making a square composition (Something that has now been completely ruined by the changes made to the platform).
I’d forgotten that sometime ago it was bought by facebook and while I had chosen not to link the two it seems facebook looked at my details it has, decided to put two and two together, and invited all my facebook friends to follow me there.
I’m still resolutely not adding twenty hashtags to each and every post so I refuse to fully play their game but yes, I’m coming out! I am on instagram (very occasionally). Find me @chrishathway.
So to start here is a photo from Brimham Rocks, which were resolutely more impressive and enjoyable than the National Trust website suggested – if you are in the area, do go check them out

(I should warn any potential visitors that its £7 on the car park and theres no change machine. Or you could just risk it…)
*I can’t tell you about my other photo blogs, well, because…
Three year old ‘new’ website launch…

While I have owned the domain for about five years now, and been working solely under that banner for over three, it took me until last month to finally launch a new, wholly work based, website for Hathway Creative.
I saw a local website design company employ a third party to build their site a while ago and admit I kind of scoffed at it at the time. Given the time its taken me to get to this stage, perhaps that might not have been a completely bad idea after all.
The combination of wanting to get things completely and absolutely right along with regular interruptions from more urgent (paid) work and also the fact I wanted to cover both the Illustration side of the work I do, and the Website Design side while also outlining some of the other creative services and solutions projects have called upon in a way that, hopefully, makes sense and is easy to navigate just took a little time to work out.





It is a relatively simple and straightforward website still, with several featured projects on the home page and pages detailing the illustration and web work I do – Do please take a look at the all new Hathway Creative website and if you’d like to hire me for something, please do get in touch.