Fake French

Dan Reeves and Fake French featured by the good folks at It’s Nice That.

Nice!

I just got back to the office after 2 days learning about ‘the future‘ here in NYC. I have written this up in a little more detail over on Mint’s blog and also put some photos on the Mint Flickr account. Unfortunately, the photos from the actual conference look whack cos the building was designed before they invented natural light and projectors.

It might also be worth keeping an eye on Keegan Jones‘ flickr account incase the laptop thief accidentally uploads some photos. Good luck hunting it down Keegan!

Since moving to London just over a year ago I have been fortunate to meet some bloody nice people. One of them being Pat Graham, a photographer who also run the 96 Gillespie gallery in Finsbury Park. Pat is a ‘graduate’ of the Positive Force house in Washington DC where he forged friendships and photographed people that have gone on to be in all the bands that you have ever loved, from Bikini Kill and Fugazi to Modest Mouse and Tortoise.

Bikini Kill

Fugazi

Pat recently released a book entitled ‘Silent Pictures‘, I strongly recommend you buy one, not only for all the amazing pictures, but you will look damn cool too!

Pat currently is on tour with Modest Mouse and keeping a photo blog of his adventures.

So i popped over the pond on sunday to do a little work in new york and be inspired by the wonderfully talented people speaking at the Future of Web Design.

I’m particularly looking forward to hearing what Ryan Simms (of Virb fame), Jeffrey Kalmikoff (of Skinny Corp and Threadless), Josh Williams (of Firewheel design), Ryan Singer (37 signals) and of course web design guru Jeffrey Zeldman have to say.

It will be fun times, i took a photo of a subway sign saying ‘ACE’ yesterday but alas, i forgot my camera lead so we’ll have to wait til i’m back in london for that visual treat.

Oh, and if anyone from New York happens to be reading this drop me a mail and we should go for a beer!

So, it’s taken us rather a long time to get our act together but we now finally have a new blog / site! Due to various time commitments we thought it would be best to base it heavily on a minimalist theme and build it up from here. So, welcome to the new era of Fake French, and more importantly the new addition of a certain mr Owen Richards.

Hooray!