Mark Boulton

Me, me, me.

I’m a graphic designer liv­ing in South Wales, UK with my wife and daugh­ter. I cur­rently run a small design stu­dio, Mark Boulton Design, where we work with cli­ents such as ESPN, Warner Bros, BBC, Brit­ish Energy and Drupal. In the past, I worked for the BBC and Agency.com design­ing won­der­ful exper­i­ences for all man­ner of cli­ents and people across the world. I also run a small pub­lish­ing imprint, Five Simple Steps, where we pub­lish prac­tical design books for the web community. 

About this site

I’ve used many, many free and open source, or low-priced con­tent man­age­ment sys­tems and blog soft­ware over the years. This site–once upon a time–started out a cus­tom PHP thing I’d cobbled together. It quickly changed to Mov­able Type before finally set­tling on Expres­sion Engine in 2005. Now, four years later, I thought it was time to review what was out there that would best suit my needs. With my rela­tion­ship with Drupal, that was always going to be a con­tender. Expres­sion Engine was like some com­fort­able, old slip­pers. But, Word­press was whis­per­ing sweet noth­ings in my ear all the while. You see, this site is now just a blog. before, I had my port­fo­lio, resume, etc. on here. But, due to me now run­ning my own little stu­dio, I have little need for that (although it’s here if you still want to have a look). So, Word­press it is.

This site uses Geor­gia. Plain and simple. Using vary­ing weights, letter-spacing, tone and space, I wanted to cre­ate some­thing beau­ti­ful from some­thing abund­antly avail­able and used to death: Geor­gia. Typo­graphic recyc­ling if you will. I quite like it.