Hey, Sorry I've been away for a while. I decided to take a break from DeviantART for a couple of months. But now I'm back!

So...What's been going on?

Well the summer was amazing, one of the best summers of all time. Because I'm such a Festival Junkie I enjoyed joining once again in a field lessening to live music. The best part was I won 4 tickets to Sonisphere Festival 2009 to see Linkin Park, Metallica, Limp Bizkit, Machine Head, Nine Inch Nails, etc......all for free!!!!

But now that summer is finished the time had come, time for University. I'm now studying BA/Graphic Design at Portsmouth University and absolutely loving it. Finally having to move from home and into halls was a shock, it's a new experience with the chance of meeting hundreds of new people.

I've also just started a Blog page. Somewhere for me to rant about my inspirations, projects, and other generals things. Please feel free to check it out:

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So yeah, it's going pretty well so far. Can't wait to see what the future holds, or 2010 .

Dave Ablett

The End: What can I say, the end has came and gone. In other words my time as a college student has came to a close. Time at college has been crazy, in other words a three year party with piles of work included.

What's Next For Me: Well after confirming that I have made it to university (by getting a final score of "DDM" as my result for the Art and Design course) it sounds like portsmouth university will be my next destination.

Design Update: Well I've have a few jobs for posters/flyers coming in though e-mail and i've done a few more soul exeter flyers (see gallery). Most of my summer I shall be continuing to teach myself though tutorials how to use After Effects, In Design, and Illustrator. Me and my friend luke [link] have been inspired by matt painting, 3d and special effects which we will be spending much time to develop through.

So I'm personally looking forward to learning more that will expand my approach towards design. Feel free to reply to this, give me feedback, thoughts, and let me know what your up to.

----Dave
Engage Design

Just before it's my 1st year DA Birthday I have finally reached the 1,000 mark. Thanks to everyone that made this possible, now on to the 10,000 .

P.S. The work from the FMP will be released soon, expect work to look similar to the likings of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, and Scott Hansen.

Dave

**Another Update**

Hey fellow daddicts,

I'm not as active to DA as I once was due to my last and final major project (well it's called an FMP). You may have notice that my soul exeter flyers were done early (A good two day jobby) and my time is being taken up by college because the end to it is near.

I have chosen my theme for the FMP and it will be based around Rubbish/Litter awareness. I'm planning to design my own logo for the campaign, t-shirts using my screen printing skills, posters and flyers, etc. This will be extremely time consuming compared to all my other projects. On top of this FMP I have been told to work on all unfinished project throughout the two years of college within the Art and Design ND course.

I look forward to starting this project, but I will give up da for a while. I will try and update you guys on my process of my FMP.

Catch you later,

EngagE DesigN

Just an update, At the moment I'm working on this never ending Graphics project that should have been handed in before Christmas. It's not the Graphics I'm sick of, but all the written work e.g. Research, Thoughts, etc. Anyway my life's pretty much an essay. That's about it not else much going on at the moment, apart from writing this journal update.

hmmm....*tumbel weed*....hmmm

Well catch you later... I suppose .

EngagE DesigN