Just a quick post to get this off my mind, its a simple little idea but I would argue that it makes a heap of difference to how users feel when they contact you and the quality of the information they provide when they do. Read the rest of this entry »
I have increasingly been asked what my creative process is and am finding it very difficult to explain, not because I’m illiterate or because I don’t have one but because the creative process I do have is so hard to define in that my process is process-less. Read the rest of this entry »
I recently flew to London and back for a cracking meeting with a great client, who I’m very excited and happy to be working with again on a much bigger project (I’ll save those detail’s for a separate press release). Read the rest of this entry »
As part of my catching up with the work I’ve been creating in the last year I’ve collated nearly all off the blogs I’ve designed so far (Theirs still a few I have to update).
For far to long my portfolios have bounced around free and unconstrained, well I just finished some new pants to keep them together and comfortable, well in fairness its an old pair of pants that have been made all sparkly with a new interface and sense of purpose. The site is at McCoy.me.uk and is designed as a return to old habits of creating atypical interfaces like I used to do way back in the day but deviated from for the purpose’s of accessibility and efficiency. This new site pulls together the following sites McCoy.co.uk (My primary design portfolio), Little Hellos (My Photography portfolio), My Pepper Soul (Some graphical tinkering) and McCoy Digital (the archives of old lost experiments and musings).
The design is based on some photos I got done in order to work with The Pond and is the first time I’ve used an old school image map in many years, I do hope to develop the page further with more interactive elements in time. Before I do that I must do a long overdue portfolio update on McCoy.co.uk I have a stack of over 6 months work festering in the corner hidden from the light of your gaze.
A proliferation of lists exists about design and the internet and do’s and dont’s and whilst laying in bed this morning feeling like hell warmed up I thought I would go back to the original commandments from the big man (No not Jacob Nieslon’s use it lists, the other big fella ) and see what they had to say about the issue: Read the rest of this entry »
