April 29, 2005
Last night in the UK, Supersize Me was shown on TV. I’ve heard a little bit about this film, but not enough to go and see it in the cinema. Ok, some bloke eats nothing but McDonald’s for a month and he gets sick. So? What do you expect if you eat nothing but that crap for a month.
April 07, 2005
It’s been over a week since I last posted and really i’ve got nothing more to say at the moment.
Life has been pretty hectic over the past couple of weeks with work seriously mounting up which has unfortunately left little time to post anything here (at least anything of any interest). In fact there are loads of things which I can’t talk about just yet, which is kind of annoying.
In addition to work, we’ve bought a new car, attended a wedding and i’ve been ill. I’m sure normal survice will be resumed shortly once i’ve sorted myself out.
March 14, 2005
I’m pretty disorganised and as my collection of things, which help me organise myself - computers, diaries, phones etc - grow, the less organised i’m becoming.
At home, we have have calendar on the fridge. Although I generally don’t add many things to it. I also have a whiteboard in the study which I regularly scribble on. So far so good. So, how come I forget things all the time then? Information overload? I blame RSS.
Anyway, this brings me on to phones and in particular my new Nokia 6230.
February 19, 2005
Tomorrow i’m off for a weeks snowboarding in Italy. Last year, two days in to the weeks holiday, I broke my finger (see xray) - which sucked - I only had two days on the slopes, the rest of the time was spent in the hotel room or walking with my crazy, alpine-walking (crampons and all) parents. Hopefully next week will be injury free - fingers crossed (’scuse the pun)
February 18, 2005
A couple of weeks ago I stumbled across the Dungeon Master Encyclopedia site whilst randomly surfing. It brought back some good memories of being completely hooked on this game when I was about 15 (16 years ago now). Whilst having a look through this site I noticed, to my delight, there was an OS X download. With great anticipation, tinged with “am I going to regret this?”, I downloaded the app.
i’m now hooked. Again.
February 15, 2005
Prompted by a letter by Nigel Gill, accound director of Sigmer technologies, in this week’s New Media Age (page 17) I just had to get pen to paper so to speak.
Nigel states in his letter that “general design opinion seems to be that accessibility is diametrically opposed to great design”. What? Is this true? He’s obviously not talked to any good designers. He goes on to talk about how you define design, information architecture and usability etc. Which is all really valid, but I can’t quite get past his opening sentence.
February 14, 2005
Yesterday evening, whilst getting to grips with a particularly tricky bit of design, Photoshop crashed. Wierd, photoshop hardly ever crashes on me. The dark days of OS 9 rose up within me like the morning after a really good night. It suddenly dawned on me I didn’t save my work for the last hour. Then it dawned on me again (there was a lot of dawning last night), I don’t have a reliable backup solution.
January 21, 2005
In less than an hour i’ll be getting in my car, with my wife, and off to visit friends in London. Really looking forward to it. It’ll be just over three years since i’ve been to London properly after living there for a few years, so visiting old haunts will be nice.
Another note. I’m chuffed to bits that i’ve finally made it into the CSS Vault. Thanks go to Mark for the submission.
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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.