William Rainbird

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Every letter. Alphabet inspired tees and prints.

My new project is now live - Alphabet Collective!

I’ve designed a range of Alphabet inspired apparel and will be looking to add more products monthly. 

It’s been rewarding to work on something that’s a bit different from standard web design and more based on creating a brand - but a lot of fun.

Check it out:

www.alphabetcollective.com

For all my Tumblr fans: use the promo code tumblr15 to get a 15% discount off your order! 

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Modular Theme

Last week I launched a new premium theme: Modular.

Modular is a single page Tumblr theme packed with features for bands and musicians. First set up your eye catching header image, then keep all your fans in the know by showcasing recent posts, Soundcloud tracks, upcoming shows from Songkick, latest releases, Instagram and merch from Big Cartel. Not in a band? Modular also works perfectly fine as a standalone theme, only turn on the features you need!

Features that come with Modular Theme:

Nice big header image

Show Soundcloud tracks

Link up to three releases to iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and Bandcamp

Show upcoming shows via Songkick or Bands in Town

Display photos from Flickr and Instagram

Display Merchandise items from your Big Cartel shop

Show Youtube videos

Use custom fonts from Typekit

Responsive layout

As well as all those awesome features, Modular Theme also includes over 80+ customization options so your colours and fonts can match your style.

Grab Modular from Tumblr’s Theme Garden.

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Yesterday I hacked around a little site that pulls in only full performances from KEXP and adds some Last FM sugar.

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Melbourne, good to be back with your end of May sunshine and cool breezy laneways.

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Amplify 2

Amplify 2 theme is built especially for bands and musicians. Features include integration with Soundcloud, Bandcamp, iTunes, Songkick, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Big Cartel & Mailchimp.

Over the last three months, I have been busy creating "Amplify 2". Amplify 2 is the successor to Amplify, which has been used by many bands on Tumblr for the last two years.

Amplify 2 was built entirely from the ground up and while it shares the same core features as its predecessor, it really is an entirely new theme.

What's new? A refreshed design, more customise options, it's responsive and for the tech savvy out there it also uses ajax/history so that all content is loaded on the fly (this means the music keeps playing). 

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A collection of coffee, brunch, food and drink in East London

Three weeks ago I decided to go take photos of all my favourite spots in London. Things escalated quickly and I ended up writing bylines on why I frequented these haunts so much, then turned it into a website. 

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I've decided to launch a separate blog to post up photos from my travels. I'll be putting up a few photos from my trips for the last two years, but will mainly looking forward to posting photos from my upcoming trips to South West England, Chicago, Iceland and Germany later this year.

Before I visited America for the first time this year in June, I picked up this beast of a camera which has really springboarded my "I'm a point and shoot photographer" to having more interest in the hobby.

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Pitfield Street, East London.

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The Golden Gate Bridge. One of my favourite photos from my trip to San Francisco in June this year.

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I went to Preikestolen and decided to do a jump which in retrospect was a bit of a stupid idea. 

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Flickr & Instagram pages

Some updates across Reverb, Cookbook, Amplify, Travelogue & Pop Cultured themes this weekend.

I've made it easier to create gallery pages using either Instagram or Flickr. If you have an Instagram page using the old way, it will probably still work but I would advise you to switch to this method.

To create a Flickr gallery page see this guide:

http://support.girafficthemes.com/customer/portal/articles/1222802-creating-a-flickr-photo-gallery-page

To create an Instagram gallery page see this guide:

http://support.girafficthemes.com/customer/portal/articles/1222812-creating-an-instagram-photo-gallery-page

As always, if you bump into any issues shoot an email to [email protected]

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Anyone remember California Games?

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Tweets and things

Showing latest tweet with Amplify, Pop Cultured, Cookbook and Travelogue theme has been updated. You may notice that during this update if you are already showing your latest tweet, this may have stopped working.

But no worry, here's how to get those tweets back up again:

For Amplify and Cookbook:

Create an embedded timeline at https://twitter.com/settings/widgets and then paste your code into the "Twitter Widget Code" textfield.

For Travelogue and Pop Cultured:

1. In your blog settings (the cog icon on the top right of the Tumblr dashboard). 

2. Choose from the left hand side which blog you want to show your latest tweets on.

3. Authorize your blog with Twitter.

After you do that your tweets should show up again. If you still find any difficulty with this, shoot an email to [email protected] :)

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Heading to Primavera Sound today in Barcelona. I'll be the guy wearing a Giraffic Themes tee. If you're around please come and say hi.

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Over the weekend I launched a new theme for Giraffic: Reverb.

Reverb is the younger brother of Amplify, another Tumblr theme built with features for bands and musicians. It includes a full screen header background, responsive layout and integrates with all your favourite websites such as Soundcloud, Songkick, Instagram, Big Cartel and much more.

Check out the demo or grab it from the Theme Garden.

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I decided to get some Giraffic Themes t-shirts made up so I can wear them to events, meet ups, coffee shops and on the couch while watching Breaking Bad.

I had to grab a minimum order (one off printing sites are usually bad quality) so if anyone for whatever reason wants to sport one of these tees you can grab one on the Giraffic Themes store.

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I wrote before about how you can't insert a photo from a URL on text posts anymore. This isn't the worst thing in a world for those of us who know what HTML stands for, but for others this has made things just that little bit harder.

I decided to write up a guide on what I think is the easiest way for a non tech savvy blogger to insert photos from a URL on a text post in Tumblr using Flickr. Great if you want to use large images (Tumblr restricts uploaded pics on text posts at 500px).