New design launched

October 15th, 2009

Why you may ask? Well as much as I loved my previous blog design I have much more experience using Wordpress since I built that and it had become unmanageable to update. Instead of using pages for my portfolio and having to upload new items via ftp each time I wanted to be able to post portfolio items into a portfolio category, and the same thing with my DJ mixes. read more »

New football blog design launched

August 6th, 2009

I was asked by http://www.kevincoleman.ie/ if I would be interested in designing a football based blog based around articles, opinions and news. I jumped at the chance to get involved and came up with the design below. read more »

My personal VCard/Links Site

August 6th, 2009

Being heavily influenced by Tim Van Damme's personal links site I wanted to try something similiar, but with a much heavier focus on Graphic Design. After having a chat with Mike at Carsonfied on the Carsonified tour we were both in agreement that Graphic Design is almost becoming like the forgotten artform on the web, and we really need to go back to pushing the boundaries of what is possible. read more »

Some recent work bits…

May 10th, 2009

Just a little update on some the recent bits I have been up to. Never really seem to get the time to update this blog anymore! read more »

A Coda/JQuery style Flash slider tutorial

March 1st, 2009

A good sign to write a quick tutorial is when you couldn't find anything in a couple of Google searches for the problem you where trying to solve. read more »

New magazine feature

February 22nd, 2009

Well what a surprise this was! I was sent a tweet from Ash Loudon saying I was featured in the latest Web Designer Magazine. So I dragged my hungover self down to WH Smiths on Saturday morning not sure what to expect. read more »

Photo montage with Safari/Chrome/Webkit, JQuery and Flickr…

November 15th, 2008

This only works in Safari and Chrome There is no doubting how powerful Webkit is, some of the new CSS selectors it provides make it a breeze to do certain things that would have normally required a sea of div's, javascript or Flash to make them work. read more »

Creating a font – Part two

August 13th, 2008

This follows on from my original post detailing the original sketches and tracing in illustrator. Now I have the capital letters for this font set up I need to calculate the cap height, x-height, ascender and descender. As I am only doing the caps for this release that makes life a bit easier but I will still calculate the other heights for when I finish the rest of the font collection. read more »

Creating a font for my new (monthly logo)

August 10th, 2008

My weekly logo iterations have been a bit slow due to being away and some busy weeks so they have almost turned into a monthly affair which is a shame. Maybe weekly logos was a bit pushing it. Anyway for this logo I decided in a moment of madness yesterday morning that I would create my own typeface with no consideration for how long it would take. It has know turned into a lot bigger project than I imagined but has been a great learning curve so I thought I would write about it so anyone reading could get some benefit from it. read more »

Weekly logo added – homage to one of my favourite design houses

July 20th, 2008

So for my new logo this week I decided to do something a little different and pay homage to one of my favourite design houses who have their roots in street based graffiti design. read more »