July 25, 2006
Last week, I mentioned I was slowly drowning in a thickening quagmire of paperwork—estimates, invoices, contracts and things. I took it upon myself to design and build a system which would help sort me out, thanks to a bit of inspiration from Stan and the boys at 37signals. A week later and this little application is working rather well, even if I do say so myself.
July 20, 2006
Last May, I became paranoid about backing data up and opted into a buying a Linksys NSLU2 with which I could stick a hard drive in the back and all my worries would be sorted. Right? Well, not quite.
A couple of nights ago I had a gut-wrenching moment when I thought I’d lost all my digital photos and music. Panic turned to grit determination to sort this problem out. I’ve had too much experience of losing important data to let this slip again.
July 19, 2006
A while ago now, like Jason, I realised I needed better organisation in my life, from both a personal and business perspective. I don’t consider myself a really busy person, although one thing has made me realise I need to be much more organised: I’ve got a lot on!(detect the slight edgy panic in my voice?).
I guess it all started last September when Khoi and I were discussing our panel for SXSW and he got me started with Backpack.
July 07, 2006
This last month has been a bit crazy. First of all England’s dire performance in the world cup has pretty much consumed me over the last four weeks. I’m honestly not much of a football fan, but international tournaments (especially this one) really get me hooked, so what do we reckon? Italy: 2 France: 1? That’s my prediction.
Then there’s been the work. I’ve got some news, which I can’t talk about just yet, but will in the coming months. It’s all very exciting but it means I’m currently working my ass off, and along with being ill again with the damn colitis, it’s made this past few weeks a pretty difficult time.
July 01, 2006
Well, there we are again. England lose to Portugal in the quarter finals on penalties. Totally rubbish. I’m not normally a fan of football, I don’t really support any premiership club for example, but I tend to follow my nations team in the major competitions.
This particular world cup held a lot of promise. In fact, this game held a lot of promise, but from the moment Rooney stamped on that Portugese player’s nads and was sent off, I knew a loss was on its way.
Ah well, the good news is Murrey is up a set against Roddick at Wimbledon.
June 25, 2006
Right, here's the thing. I bought my G5 iMac nearly two years ago now and I've been overall very happy with it, but lately there's one thing which has been really beginning to bother me. The damn fan. It's a revision A iMac (the one's with the dodgy fans), so it's a well documented problem which can't be fixed. The problem is, it's been getting much worse over this past year—it's screaming loud right now—and to be honest, it's getting to point when it's even audible over music at full volume.
Well, I've gone and done it. Ordered my new 20" Intel iMac yesterday. After the heat of last week, coupled with the fact I needed to do quite a lot of intensive processor work on the machine, the fan noise was pretty much unbearable. Called Apple, they said it was 'within accepted limits'. I guess if you're only surfing the web and reading email, this might be the case. The new machine should be here on Wednesday. Can't wait.
June 14, 2006
A while ago now, Communis, Bath based accessibility company, approached me for the branding and graphic design of a website which would sell customised football team kits and leisureware. Now, four months or so down the line, the Beta for FootballKitDesigner has gone live.
June 13, 2006
I’m getting pretty excited abut @media which kicks off in a couple of days.
Over the past few months I’ve been working with the guys at Vivabit to produce the printed material for the conference. It’s been great to get my teeth stuck into some print again, but I’ve forgotten how stressful print deadlines can be. I think printers are like builders, and to be perfectly honest I’ve no idea how some of them remain in business. But if you find a good one, it’s a totally different story.
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I'm a graphic designer from near Cardiff in the UK. I've been a designer for over ten years now and primarily work on the web. I'm still partial to a bit of print every now and then though. I used to work for Agency.com in London as an Art Director before working as a Senior Designer for the BBC in sunny Cardiff. This was all before I took leave of my senses and formed my own design consultancy, Mark Boulton Design Ltd.
I've got a thing about grids and typography and occasionally ramble on about them to anyone who will listen.
If you're after simple, clean and effective web design; let me know.