A Cardiff City supporters group has raised enough money to buy a billboard in a prime location close to the Cardiff City Stadium. Since mid-August the full sized billboard has been on display to all passing traffic and pedestrians located next to the Leckwith Road bridges. The supporters are grouped under the title ‘Bluebirds Unite‘ […]
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VIDEO – The American’s take on the UK Premier League!
It’s mid-August and it’s time for the Premier League to kick off in style with newly promoted Cardiff City away to West Ham and fellow rivals Swansea City home to giants Manchester United. All these games get syndicated throughout the world with NBC pushing the American coverage for the 2013/2014 season with a 5 minute […]
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MTV The Valleys – The verdict
First there was The Only Way Is Essex (Towie) then came Geordie Shore and Made In Chelsea – so what other stereotypical British areas were left to explore? Hmmmm….. desperate times and so it must be time to feature The Welsh in a brand new MTV series creatively called …ummmm…The Valleys. ‘The Valleys’ had it’s […]
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CARDIFF CITY – Rebranded stadium for 2012/2013 season
Out with the old and in with the new…blue…well sorta red really. Earlier in the year the Malaysian backers agreed to invest £100 million pounds in Cardiff City football club but with the understanding that the club strip would become RED and also losing the name Bluebirds and rebranding the team as The Dragons to […]
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CARDIFF-Typomap of Cardiff
A Typomap is a collection of cleverly designed set of maps consisting of countries, cities, seas, and all other topography made out of typeface letters. So essentially :- Typographic + Map = TypoMap Here is a famous example that has already been made and gave me the inspiration to create one for my home city […]
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RUGBY-Cardiff Blues try some different ways of advertising….
Whilst passing Leckwith Road I noticed that the Captain America advertisement was being replaced with one for the local rugby side The Cardiff Blues. It seems the new tagline might need some work :- “Think Rug” I know some people think of the side as a bunch of pussies with too much prancing around in […]
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GRAFFITI-Spades ‘blob character’ used for Referendum Vote poster
Venturing via a different route in the back-end of town and passing over this ‘well-decorated’ railway bridge – set all alone amongst an area going through huge redevelopment – located between the edge of the City Centre, Grangetown and Cardiff Bay. (Which part of Cardiff would you say this is actually within? answers on a […]
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Cardiff ‘Survival’ – Vintage advertisements around Canton
The Guardian Cardiff website runs a Flickr photography group where a subject is chosen and people are free to submit photos to satisfy the brief. It’s all for a bit of fun and following on from other groups like ‘Thing A Week’ One of the themes chosen for the latest installment of the ‘Project Document’ […]
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HUMOUR-How smartphone users see each other!
The chaps over at C-SectionComics.com have produced a funny but almost 100% accurate poster showing “How smartphone users see each other!”
Continue readingGavin Henson unveiled at WRU Kit Launch
Twas gone 11 o’clock on a sunny Wednesday morning and all the local Welsh Media had arrived for yet another Welsh Rugby Union kit launch.
Continue readingPHOTOS-Graffiti Character Posters Spotted
Time for another update on some grafitti characters that ive spotted on my travels. Two of these fellow gents have popped up on Cowbridge Road, near Ely Bridge and seem to be cut-out sprayed posters which have been pasted up. (is there a better technical graf-term for them???) I hope there are many more to […]
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