Archive for May, 2007


Nightly routine

There was a time when your nightly routine about maxed out with brushing your teeth, now it seems the nightly routine has developed into a fine art form. It’s one side of working for myself coupled with the industry I live in I guess. You may sort your emails, you may set your calendar, organise your feeds, back up your hard drive – we all have our own routine we do before ‘puter off time’ or ‘brain off time’.

May 27th, 2007  |    |  Full Roast  |  2 Comments »


Web designers organisation: desirable or even doable?

Over in the 9rules notes there was a discussion about whether a professional organisation for web designers could or even should exist. It’s something I’ve thought about before and in principle I agree with – the problem is the application as with so many things. A valid point is also the way things like certification and so on are watered down often in the process of membership. The thing is there are existing certifications for the industry it’s just none has even either gained enough take up rate or has managed to become the ’standard’.

May 21st, 2007  |    |  Full Roast  |  5 Comments »


Just because you can hit a button doesn’t make you a web designer

Be warned rant coming (awoga and other warning sounds / lights should be considered going on)…..

May 13th, 2007  |    |  Full Roast  |  19 Comments »


Designer brain dump

I have a lot of various design (and some non design but closely linked) related thoughts going on at the moment and figured I’d write them down. Of course some may become full on posts, but I felt it was about time I got some of these out of my brain and onto my blog. Consider this a designer’s brain dump for today.

May 9th, 2007  |    |  Full Roast  |  2 Comments »


Sometimes all it takes is putting a name to a tune

Have you ever had a tune on your hard drive for ages and not known what it was or where it came from? Well, I have (actually I have far too many of them) and today thanks to Ben (via Simon’s new music delivery from a visit to Ben’s) I gained the insight into at least one of my ‘what the bleep is that it’s good’ tracks. I am going to bed much happier in the knowledge it’s ‘The White Hare’ by Seth Lakeman and wow ‘Freedom Fields’ is one heck of an album.

May 1st, 2007  |    |  Espresso  |  No Comments »