Happy hallowe’en
Here is a picture of a pumpkin that my beautiful wife did. The pumpkin is a fruit not a vegetable and is native to the americas.
Design, marketing, graphics, internet, print, London
Here is a picture of a pumpkin that my beautiful wife did. The pumpkin is a fruit not a vegetable and is native to the americas.
I’m at school at the moment.
In WC1, hiding in between the Islington’s Lloyd, Wilmington and Granville Squares is Framfab LBi, Europe’s largest web agency, where I’m working now, in a building that used to be a school. And it actually feels like a school. The staircases, the rooms, the panelled headmaster’s study, [...]
Here’s another thing that I hate about doing websites … Flash. When I first set eyes on it I thought it was great but for me it hasn’t really lived up to expectations.
The problem is not everyone has the flash player installed in their browser – not everyone can see it! A way around [...]
This time last year I was forced to take a break from all this hard work and I found a lucrative summer followed by a cold, lean winter.
At the moment I am pleasantly encouraged by the amount of calls I’m getting on the mobile from agencies. Maybe last week was a bit quiet. But this [...]
How do you cut out a high resolution photo? It depends on the picture of course. If you are cutting out a product – a mobile phone, say – then use the pen tool in Photoshop. Blow the image up big and follow the edge one or two pixels in using Bézier curves. Bézier is [...]
This article is massively out-of-date and virtually everything said in it is now incorrect but it is useful to show how quickly things can change in this area!
If you now type “freelance graphic designer and artworker in London” into Yahoo! I’m number one. In Google I’m hundred and fifty something!
I’m trying to do reciprocal links [...]
If a company wants to see you first when all they want is an artworker for two weeks, don’t see them! I know it’s amazing but really some people have nothing better to do. They get a pay cheque every month so they won’t think twice to waste the time of three or four people. [...]