How I got my first design job
I first wrote this a couple of years ago and it’s been lingering on a blogger site. I’ve been asked a few times recently about how I got into the industry so thought I’d repost here for your reading pleasure. Note: there’ll be a part 2 next week about how I successfully became a full-time [...]
doodles
Hello. I made some doodles. Thinking of developing their style into a new way of illustrating. I especially like the owl and the leaf.
CIO Connect magazine issue 37 – winter 2011/2012
Here’s a quick look at the Winter issue of CIO Connect. It’s a quarterly magazine for Chief Information Officers (top IT bods to you and me). Normally the cover feature photos are taken by the talented Mr Martin Burton. Unfortunately this issue the interviewee didn’t have time for a photoshoot so we had to use [...]
Intellectual deletism
(or, the difficulties of editing copy) You know the bloated corpses they sometimes find floating in rivers? Well, that’s how I felt about the writing on my website. Disgusting to look at, unwieldy, past its sell-by date. I’d composed it in a fit of verbosity some time ago and knew it needed editing, but every [...]
Ted Shiress’ website
Hello! After designing a site for his friend and fellow comedian Wes Packer, Ted Shiress asked me to come up with one for him, too. He wanted it to be all dark (like his comedy), so I designed this, and he approved the first concept I showed him. Hooray!
