January 28, 2007
A couple of books coming up which may be of interest. Firstly, Web Standards Creativity is up on Amazon for pre-order. It’s a sumptuous full-colour paperback covering topics like Typography, PNG transparency techniques and Grid Design from the likes of Ethan Marcotte, Simon Collison, Cameron Adams, Aaron Gustafson, Jeff Croft, Derek Featherstone, Dan Rubin, Andy Budd, Ian Lloyd, Rob Weychert, Andy Clarke, and me.
Secondly, Five Simple Steps: Designing for the Web is nearing completion. It’s not quite finished yet, and yes I’m going to miss the January deadline, but it will be worth the wait. To keep you going until then, here’s a few tasters…
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August 25, 2006
A few weeks ago, I wrote about my difficulty managing an increasing amount of requests for work and creating and tracking the paperwork associated with this process. I decided to build something in Expression Engine to solve my needs, but it was far from perfect. In fact, there was so much missing from my prototype, that it made sense to develop it further.
So, without further ado, let me introduce you to Flow; a money organiser for freelancers and small businesses.
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February 20, 2006
Yesterday, 9rules and I parted company. It was a good relationship while it lasted, but an increased workload and the subsequent tipping of scales has meant that I can't give back to the Network what I once could. 9rules deserves more than I could give it, so I'm bowing out.
Thanks to Paul and all the 9rules members for a creating a cracking community.
February 17, 2006
Three weeks today, I'll be landing in Austin, Texas for SXSW. I cannot tell you how excited I am about going to this event again.
Two years ago, A collegue and I attended to what I thought was just going to be another industry do. How wrong I was. The inspiration fuelled my creativity and design direction for about six months. Little did I know then that in two years time I would be sitting on one of the panels. Nervous? Me?
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February 01, 2006
pMachine have just announced The ExpressionEngine $15,000 shootout, a competition in to find the best, new EE–based sites. I'll be a judge on the competition along with Colly, Jason, Molly, Scrivs,Cameron, Narayan, Emily Chang, Jesse, Max and Om Malik.
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November 08, 2005
This morning I received some sad news in my Inbox. After 21 years of being published, Emigr? magazine is finally calling it a day.
I don't really know where to begin when describing the effect Emigr? has on my path to become a designer. I'm sure I speak for a lot of designers when I say Emigr? deeply influenced my work throughout university - Not just in terms of how the magazine was designed, and the beautiful typography, but by the articles themselves.
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October 05, 2005
Looks like the next six months is looking very busy for me - from conferences to holidays.
In November I'm off to the Carson Workshop one day workshop, "CSS for Designers" in London. It promises to be an excellent day with Molly and Andy at the helm covering topics such as 'demystifying structure' and 'CSS: Managing Design Process and Alternative Device Design', which is of particular interest to me.
They've just added a new date on the 17th with limited places available, so what are you waiting for? Book a place.
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July 11, 2005
Today was the first day back at work for a month, and it was the hottest day in Cardiff since I've lived here (32C). Not a great day, although brilliant to be interacting with real people rather than deciding if it's going to be 'Trisha' or 'Joy Of Painting' (which is a joy BTW - Bob Ross, what a genius! I miss him already).
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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