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 just uploaded a selection of the panels I designed that are now part of the London Zoo’s big cat enclosure that details the dangers to these beauties.  I finished them back in February but am only now managing to get an opportunity to update this site, amongst moving, working with Cucumber and designing the new Liberty Human Rights web site life is a little on the manic side so once again apologies for the lag in replying to emails, I do love you and I love hearing form all you folks both socially and project related.

I’ve taken up a new post leading the design side of Cucumber a cracking digital agency based in Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. I’ll still be taking on new projects through this site, and with the added support of Cucumber’s accomplished development team I’ll be able to deliver much more complex digital solutions. I’ll still be taking on smaller design & Illustration projects myself though as and when something arrives that peaks my interest.

Just a quick update to apologies to all those folks I’ve not replied to emails and requests to (I don’t like being one of THOSE people). Secondly the reason that I’ve become one of those folks is because I’ve landed some big yet quick turn around jobs that I need to sort out asap. The jobs are for 7UP through Spook Media, the Liberty Human Rights redesign and a separate campaign and some design work for the signage at London Zoo for the BIG CATS exhibit, plus numerous other projects waiting in the wings shouting at me for there attention. So if your one of those shouting for my attention I promise you’ll have it soon and I don’t mean to be an arse.

Way back in the day, before I got involved in all this interactive & graphical design I was a fine art student and spent my days making films and noise. I would make electric guitars and other electric noise making devices out of all sorts, old tape players with the reading heads removed and placed into hand units, guitars out of old speaker box’s and all sorts of joyous nonsense. Read the rest of this entry »

Forms are often the most over looked aspect of a web site, ironically they are also one of the most important as they act as the conduit for interaction and activity. Read the rest of this entry »

There is a trend at the moment for compiling top ten lists of personal favorites form the decade so I’m going to join in perhaps more for personal fascination reasons then anything else. Read the rest of this entry »

Many folks are using Twitter to search for and advertise jobs, for some reason its mainly the American and Canadian markets, the others seem to be a little slow on the uptake.

There are several things that folks looking to use Twitter to recruit can do to ensure that they attract the right candidates by getting the right information out there. 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 »

After the success of the ‘42 Days‘ campaign I worked on with Liberty Human Rights at the tail end of last year I was invited back to tender for the re-positioning of the Liberty Human Rights brand online, and I am overjoyed to tell that I was awarded the creative aspect of the project in collaboration with the wonderfully clever guys at Kitsite in London and it all kicked of last Friday with a great and enthusiastic meeting. Read the rest of this entry »