Bad design isn’t something I particularly enjoy talking about but its quite easy to be critical and point the finger at things that are ‘bad’. but I’d like to approach this question of why do people like bad design?
I think partly its to do with education, many clients don’t want good designs. They want something [...]
You might have heard the term letterpress being banded about on the internet. But what exactly is it?
Letterpress is a form of relief printing using a printing press and moveable type, the kind of printer invented by Gutenberg in the 15th century. Modern industrial letterpress techniques are different from the traditional version which uses a [...]
I recently sent off an email to Masterchef contestant Stacie Stewart and I suddenly realised what a minefield the internet is and how difficult it is to get started up if your essentially a novice.
A lot of people think that just by having a website people will visit your delicately crafted home on the internet, [...]
I was listening to the news on the radio recently, which is something I don’t do very often. It featured an article about the a sculpture by Anish Kapoor set to produce the worlds largest piece of public art in Middlesbrough.
In case you don’t know anything about it the piece is called Temenos and be [...]
In my series of artists I admire I’ve chosen for the next one, Dante Gabriel Rosetti. I did say I would pick a dead artist this time!
Rosetti was a poet, illustrator and painter perhaps best known for his work with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood during 1848 as one of its founding members. Together with William Holman [...]
On Tuesday I picked up a copy of The Metro, which was running an article about how logos are ‘dead’. But whats wrong with a good well designed logo?
A logo is broadly defined as a graphic mark or emblem used by organisations to promote and assist public recognition.
Before the modern contemporary logo people were using [...]
It’s been a while since I last posted to my blog and to break the silence I’d like to continue looking at some of my favorite artists and designers.
This time its the turn of Lou Romano.
Lou Romano works at Pixar Animation Studio’s as a voice actor and production assistant. If you’ve never heard of Lou [...]
I was thinking about what kind of a post I’d put together before Christmas. I’d been wanting to do a full on post about Etsy for a while now. What with it being a major time for gift buying I thought I might highlight a few sellers who’ve helped me get the perfect gift.
If you [...]
As a frequenter of design based blogs I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about HTML 5.
Every few years theres an overhaul of web technologies or someone comes up with ‘the latest thing’ which will apparently exponentially improve our webby lives. So I often come at these things from an overly critical stance. Out [...]