As the sun continues to shine, we’re really getting into the summertime spirit here at Airside. Not to mention summertime spirits – did someone say it’s Pimms o’clock? The joys of the sunny season were further confirmed when we spotted this lovely summer-themed collection of transport art.

The Summer Time collection was curated by Prussian Bee, a visitor to London Transport Museum’s gallery website Pick + Mix – as designed by Airside. We’re especially fond of Mary Koop’s 1925 print, Summer Sales, with its eye-catching collection of umbrellas. Now that’s the kind of June weather we’re used to.

As the bells chimed to ring in the New Year, Airside closed our eyes, clenched our fist and resolved, dammit, we resolved. Less than a week later we were back on the fags / booze / pastries / tweak, so it seemed an appropriate time to attempt our remaining resolution for the new decade. Which brings us to this blog about a blog – a metablog if you will.

Airside is kicking off 2010 with a brand new Photo Blog . The plan was to post a picture on each working day of the year, but as with our occasional early morning smoke / sip / scoff / slam, it turns out our resolve isn’t all that strong. Nevertheless you can already check out some claymation sculpting and fried Colombian ants, and more to come at the new Airside Photo Blog

With our attention distracted by a festive season full of food, booze and Bond movies, Airside returned in the New Year to find that our website had been hacked. According to the page uploaded by the hackers, Airside is now owned by the North Africa Team.

Our first task for our new overlords will be to redesign their hack’n’splash page. Seriously, if you’re going to go to the trouble of invading someone’s website, at least make sure your calling card looks good.

We’ve only just found this rather old blog post about the title sequence illustrations we did for No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.  But we definitely have to mention it purely for the name of the blog.  Yes, there is nothing we at Airside love more than a good pun.

Kiss My Black Ads is a blog dedicated to ethnically diverse advertising, or as they put it in the astonishing assault of assonance that is their tagline: “an actually almost accurate annex of African American Advertising anthropologically archived & archeologically assessed”. Nice work.

Last week Airside visited the lovely city of Belfast where we presented An Evening With Airside. No, it wasn’t some Saturday evening ITV special where we wore glitzy dresses, sang our hits and duetted with other designers. It was a less glamourous, but no less exciting, talk that was part of the inaugural Build web conference.

An Evening With Airside took place at the Conor Lecture Theatre at the University of Ulster in Belfast. Unfortunately we don’t have any photos from the event, but we did snap the above gem as we strolled around the city earlier in the day, that reveals Belfast’s deep and special love for smoking.

Anyways, our web guru Guy Moorhouse was Airside’s earth-bound representative on the night, giving a 45-minute presentation of our portfolio. And where there’s web and Airside, there will be our good friends With Associates.

Mathew from With joined Guy for a detailed case study of the Vitsœ website, which hopefully illustrated how creative and technical companies are stronger when they partner. After that was a 15-minute Q&A, followed by the traditional mad scramble for our calendars and showreels. Because, let’s face it, conferences are all about the free stuff.

Thanks to everyone who came along and posted nice things on Twitter (unless you tweeted during the talk – shouldn’t you have been paying attention?).

Thanks to the Build crew, especially the tireless Andy McMillan, for inviting us along. And thanks also to Belfast – the city that never quits.

Shameless plug time! Our client Vitsœ has launched a collection of starter packs that can help sort out your storage needs, without you needing to break the bank.

From as little as £145 you can get started on a Vitsœ shelving system, as designed by the legendary Dieter Rams. Whether you need a simple book shelf to tidy up your library or are looking to add some wardrobe space to your home, make Vitsœ’s starter collections your storage solution. Vitsœ’s adaptable system makes it easy to expand or rearrange your shelves or wardrobe at a later date, which means you are investing in a product for life and not some puny piece of plywood that won’t survive your next removal van.

There are four simple configurations available now from www.vitose.com. And while you are there, have a roam around the lovely website made for them by a certain design company you might have heard of.

No, thankfully I’m not referring to the late 80s Saturday morning T.V. show, but rather the moment that our latest web site project, Vitsœ was launched.

If you haven’t already, pop by and take a look…