Postcards is an ongoing series by Bristol-based Graphic Designer Reuben Whitehouse.

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But what did he do during his very early career? Find out here.

1. In 8th grade my friend Matt and I realized that we could make a lot of money selling fireworks to our friends at school.  We took the train to chinatown in San Francisco, bought fireworks, and resold them at a huge profit.  The only issue was that fireworks were illegal in California at the time.  I was also a bit of a computer geek, and made the mistake of programming my customer lists onto the teletype computers in the computer lab at my school (this was before computers actually had screens).  What I didn’t realize was that our computers were an experimental project connected to the mainframe at the University of California at Berkeley, which was controlled by the US Defense Department.  Someone discovered that I was selling explosives through government computers.  I was immediately arrested and suspended for a week.

To my father’s credit, he seemed to think what I’d done was more clever than evil.  So I had some days off school and had to promise not to do it again.

2. When I was in 9th grade I was hired to edit one of the first BASIC computer program books.  Basically, it was a book of programs that did different things (saved your recipes, played tic-tac-toe with you).  You had to type the programs into your computer and save them, and you could then use the apps.  None of them worked.  I spent the summer making them not work even more, but since nobody at the company that hired me could use a computer nobody really cared and I was paid anyway.

3. When I was in 11th grade I was hired to design games for the Commodore 64 home computer.  I wrote a very violent take game and was never paid.

4. In college my friend Ben and I designed and sold T-shirts based on our designs, though I have to admit that it was mostly Ben’s artwork as mine mostly sucked.  The t-shirts were massed produced in a garage in random colors of ink and dye.  Very 1908′s.  By the time we’d graduated it was a international business and I’d paid for university.

5. I then screwed around doing various things I don’t want to talk about for a few years, and started a business with my friend Shawn selling used Levis and other vintage clothing to the Japanese.  I once sold a pair of 1940′s stiltwalker levi’s jeans, deadstock, with 14 foot long legs, to a Japanese collector for $35,000.

I could go on, but we’ll stop there.

I eventually ended up founding Kidrobot and my bicycle company Budnitz Bicycles.  We make high-end titanium city bicycles based on my designs and they are truly awesome.

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Recent Birmingham Institute of Art & Design graduate Hayley Warnham is an illustrator who likes to cut & paste.

‘Everything is Beautiful’ is a collection of ordinary snapshots made into extraordinary works by Hayley’s addition of colour and life. We found that browsing through the series added a bit of colour to our own day.

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I have a couple of tables; one for pattern drafting, one for sewing. Empty jam jars are filled with bobbins, pins. Old chocolate and biscuit tins full to the brim with buttons. String and pegs create a washing line to hang materials of inspiration from. Images adorn the walls from different ethnic cultures and images from era gone by, historical costume and tear outs from fashion magazines.

I work from my studio full time using a range of different hand sewing techniques and pattern drafting skills. I love to drape fabric round the mannequin creating new forms and silhouettes. My studio is stacked full of Harris Tweed fabrics and a collection of treasures from around the globe.I collect vintage brooches, feathers and buttons to create new pieces to add to my jackets. A collection of shoes, socks for shoots are kept in boxes.

I receive packages through the post from my college Alison Macleod. She works on the Isle of Lewis producing handmade textiles. Her pieces bring new inspiration to the studio. I often have pictures on the wall by twin sister who is an artist which inspires new cloth combinations.

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‘Where I Make’ invites readers behind the scenes of artists from many disciplines to share photographs and a little insight about where they create their masterpieces. See more from the series here.