November 21, 2006
When I left the BBC a few months ago, they were kind enough to give me an Amazon voucher with which I bought a new Apple iPod Shuffle.
Well, Amazon took two months to actually get the stock in from Apple (don’t know whose fault that was, but the delivery date kept on going back and back with no word from either party.) But all that aside, I received it yesterday and it’s a little thing of beauty.
November 14, 2006
On Sunday night, Emma and I braved the cold South Wales weather to venture into Cardiff to see probably our favourite rock band at the moment, Muse.
They were good. Ridiculously good actually.
October 08, 2006
I’m a little late for this one, but I’ve now managed to go Pink for October in support of National Breast Cancer Awareness month. At the moment, NBCM is a US based thing, although a pink month was done by Cancer Research UK a while ago. Anyway, the point is, breast cancer awareness shouldn’t be limited by country.
If you don’t know much about breast cancer, please take this opportunity to go and read a little about it, and consider a small donation.
The normal green service will be resumed in November. Although, I am quite liking the pink. Maybe a touch of brown as well…
August 10, 2006
Yesterday I finally received my new mobile phone, a Sony Ericsson k800i, and it’s a little beauty. There were a few problems though.
Firstly, it’s a little larger than I expected. Not in physical size though - it’s a bit of an illusion. Because the sides don’t taper, like my Nokia 6230, the k800 just seems larger. The fact is, it’s only a couple of mm taller and about 3mm either side wider. I can live with it. Secondly, Vodafone ships the phone with it’s own ‘branded’ os and by God has it been beaten with an ugly stick. So, I took it upon myself to reflash the OS and install my own OSX theme.
August 05, 2006
First off, let me thank everyone for their kind words and support over the past week, it really has been fantastic. As you may know, a week ago, I handed in my resignation from the BBC. Before that day however, there’s been a lot to do in order to make the transition from employee to self-employed a little bit smoother. As I mentioned in my last post, I want to document this journey as much as I can so that I can look back in the months to come and see where I went wrong!
So, this first post is all about putting the pieces in place: Company and financial stuff, working environment and some systems.
July 27, 2006
Emma and I have just returned from a celebratory meal from our favourite little place in Cowbridge, which is about ten minutes drive from our house. The reason? Well, you may have guessed from the title of the post, but this morning I handed in my resignation from the BBC. The 25th August will be my last day. On returning from Portugal, the 7th of September will be my first day trading as Mark Boulton Design LLP.
Excited? I can barely contain 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.
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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.