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As of a couple of weeks ago, Mark Boulton Design — together with Content Strategist, Relly Annett-Baker of Supernice Studios — have been tasked with redesigning CERN’s public-facing website, and the organisation’s intranet. Most importantly, we’re helping CERN tell the … Continue reading
Over on the Five Simple Steps blog, Alex Morris (our User Experience Design Director at Mark Boulton Design) has posted a piece on why we don’t give away free multi-format books, and why producing good quality eBooks takes time. Deep … Continue reading
I don’t often talk about work on this blog, but today is the exception. We’re enjoying a particularly busy time at Mark Boulton Design. We’re working on some great projects for some fantastically great clients – from major global sport … Continue reading
Over the past week or so, I’ve had the absolute pleasure of having a sneaky peek at an upcoming typography journal that promises to blow your mind. Created by typographic tour-de-force, John Boardley – of I Love Typography fame – … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, the small indie publisher I’m a co-founder of announced some workshops we’re running in January 2011. Three days of intensely practical learning in London. This is your chance to go beyond the books of Donna … Continue reading
Last week, I spent a productive week near Lagos, Portugal, finishing my upcoming book. As part of this book, I’ve spent time working on a canon of page construction for websites –- a set of guidelines for aesthetically pleasing layouts … Continue reading
I’ve been meaning to redesign my blog for a little while. Not because I don’t like the previous design (far from it, in fact), but because I need a place of design expression, not just a place of written expression. … Continue reading
Well, what a week that was. Off the back of a wonderful dConstruct came a timely discussion (either well-timed, or ill-timed depending on your point of view) between Ryan Carson and the UX community (rebuttals from Andy Budd and Cennydd … Continue reading
I’ve just updated to WordPress 3.0 without a problem (which was nice, and actually made a nice change). Why? Well, things are a changing here. I’ve got itchy feet and all this talk of responsive web design has got me … Continue reading
Last week, after a lot of thought and a heap of work, we released my book, Designing for the Web, online. For free. It was only published a year ago, so why release it so soon? Well, I tried to … Continue reading
For all those, like me, who lack some serious knife skills when it comes to creating a scary pumpkin face for the impending Halloween festivities tomorrow, here’s a simple mask you can download, print out and stick on a pumpkin. … Continue reading
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