Journal

Category: Personal

Mushy, mush, mush.

March 02, 2004

My brain is complete and utter mush. Two days of intensive task based interaction flow design. Good, but mush.

Shame on me …

February 26, 2004

For not writing anything for a month. shockingly bad. But in my defense i’ve had a lot going on. I’ve been on holiday to Switzerland, snowboarding, and broke my finger on the second day which was rubbish. So, now i’m strapped up with visits every couple of weeks to fracture clinic. On top of that i’ve had a stinker of a cold. Other than that, what’s happening?

Well, work wise things are ticking along with several big launches coming up as well as an increasing usability / IA work load. On top of that i’m heavily involved in the content management workflow. BUT, the cool thing is, i’m off to SXSW in March for 7 days in the US of A. Should be really good. Some big names are there, so hopefully i’ll be hobnobbing with the likes of Zeldman and Doug Bowman.

I’ll be hopefully getting round to getting the homepage of this site built as well as the inclusion of the portfolio (with a little help from a great article by hicks design) I still need to do the contact forms and stuff as well as getting the photo gallery online too. Should be easy enough, but with organising a wedding as well, things are a little bonkers at the moment.

Talking of Snooch, the knocked back blue look is beginning to bug me slightly so expect an introduction of some lovely colour throughout the coming months in addition to some tweaks to the stylesheets.

Same s**t, different day

January 08, 2004

What did I do over Christmas and New Year?

Eat
Sleep
Eat some more
Watch some telly
Drive
Eat
Sleep
Play with kids
Eat
Open presents
Shop
Eat
Sit on my ass
Sleep

Nice being home for Christmas with the oldies, we did cook which was fun seeing my mum flap around the kitchen not knowing what to do with herself. But why does Christmas have to be about excess? Sick of it this year - far too much sitting around being lazy, eating rich - bad for you food, very, very boring. Roll on next year where i’ll be out in Portugal. Sun, beach, swimming and grilled fish - now that’s what Christmas should be like!

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Of interest ...

4Talent - A FONT OF KNOWLEDGE
Channel 4 Talent interviews me about design
Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours
Joe Clark's new book.
Drupal.org: come wireframe with me!
Leisa calls on the community to take part in an interesting group wireframing exercise
disambiguity - " Opening the floodgates! How to participate in the Drupal.org redesign project
Leisa opens the floodgates with many channels by which to participate in the Drupal.org redesign project.
FF Meta Serif
Great looking minisite for FF Meta Serif
Clagnut: A new design
Richard cooks up a splendid redesign to Clagnut. Wonderfully understated.
A List Apart: Putting Our Hot Heads Together
Carolyn Wood writes about the value of thoughtful discussion in participation on the web. Beautifully written.

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My books

Web Standards Creativity Buy Five Simple Steps: Designing for the Web

Stuff I like

The Britpack!

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A picture of Mark BoultonI'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.