Comments on: Mark Boulton Design launches

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:01:47 +0000

Looks like something that hasn’t been designed and to me, that is its biggest strength. No over-the-top forced graphics web2.0 fads. Great job.

By: Lee Wilson

Lee Wilson — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:06:11 +0000

Love it.

By: System Engineering

System Engineering — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:07:58 +0000

Beautiful! it’s great!

By: Cees

Cees — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:45:36 +0000

Lean, clean, mean and simple – just like you aim it to be , must feel good if it turns out the way you want it – i like it.

Two points i like to point at (humble gesture):

1. your header (markboulton/design) gives me (i know – i am a computer guy) the impression that it consists of 2 parts and there is a markboulton/life somewhere around (i know there is but also on inet ?)

2. the comma in ‘beautiful, simple design’ somewhat hangs out down the line (FF 2.0.0.4) – it looks out of place somehow and seems to be too big

By: Scott Lenger

Scott Lenger — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:03:32 +0000

Fantastic. You’re among a handful of designers who’ve saved me from a self-destructive life of gradients and dropshadows. It’s also nice to know I’m not alone in my struggle with vertical typography.

I’ve been secretly hoping you were working on creating a fluid site to show us all how to get our grid on…maybe down the road?

By: Des Traynor

Des Traynor — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:05:13 +0000

Fantastic work Mark. I’ve learned so much from you over the past year.

Speaking of which, sorry to drag it up, but I’ve been dying to give you $20 for quite some time now, any news on that?

By: lm

lm — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:49:40 +0000

Great design.
2 things:
in IE7 on this page:
http://www.markboultondesign.com/work/
the text of description of nature.com lays over Projects column.
Other thing - it is impossible to comment from IE7.
I know i got a better browser but anyway :D

By: David Liu

David Liu — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:46:59 +0000

Looks very nice. Love the simplicity and color scheme of it. Keep up the good work!

By: Grant Blakeman

Grant Blakeman — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:26:16 +0000

Excellent site. Well done. And thanks for the post about the process. As someone who is currently working on his own studio’s site, it’s nice to know I’m not the only one finding the process a lot harder and involved than others might think.

By: timfm

timfm — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:35:47 +0000

Mark,

Simply beautiful. I’ve long awaited the launch. A few things:

1. Copy could use some subbing—a few hanging prepositions among other things. On Contact page under “Want to work with us?” header, you need a space before the open paren of “(PDF, 47kb)” Happy to run throught the entire site for you if you’d like (@ me).

2. I was just itching to see what you did with the typefaces. I was surprised to not see any of the new vista fonts in the stacks. Any particulr reason for this?

3. I agree with Rob W. about the footer. I’d opt for a tad bit white-space on the bottom.

4. Bravo on the hanging bulletts! Only in the in left column though? Was this intentional?

Would love to see a writeup about about the typographic rhythm and grids. I’m (i think we all are) still a little hazy on baseline vs. x-height vs. cap height alignment of secondary columns and image content, etc.. I’ve been trying to get my head around all of this and juiice into an ALA article. See my (timfm) and Irving’s comments (4th and 7th from the bottom) in your Incremental Leading post.

Congratulations Mark. Well done!

By: Richard B

Richard B — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:31:05 +0000

Very slick and as always great usage of grids.