Archived blog posts
- May 2013
- ‘Beauty is the promise of function’ -
- The strange death of the underlined link -
- Instant RESS Implementation How-to: a review -
- April 2013
- WordUp Edinburgh 2013 -
- Sepia tinted antiquity -
- Design and ‘emptiness’ -
- A modernist design playlist -
- ‘The Next Day’: interesting CD, interesting sleeve -
- Propellerhead Reason, Ableton Live and ‘material honesty’ -
- March 2013
- A ‘strange white light’ -
- The Man Who Fell to Earth, revisited -
- Goodbye Voyager, soon -
- The Spirit of ‘45 -
- The website formerly known as Lucent Web Design -
- Cropping images -
- Omon Ra -
- Craft, art and web design -
- February 2013
- Intermission -
- ‘Logical argumentation’ and ‘strategies of persuasion’ -
- January 2013
- Designing Utopia -
- Music for Tax Returns -
- Open skies -
- On murk and Mirkwood -
- December 2012
- Early voyages -
- Compressive images -
- Two new diocesan websites for the Scottish Episcopal Church -
- iSustainability -
- November 2012
- EllisLab’s gamble -
- The ruins of the future -
- Two not uninteresting resources for responsive images -
- The politics of progressive enhancement -
- October 2012
- The Truth About HTML5 - a review -
- Neon city -
- Saint Hildegard, mystic, poet, ambient forerunner… -
- ‘Night has fallen and the foul are abroad’ -
- Contemporary web design and ‘truth to materials’ -
- Passwords: make them complicated, and write them down (sort of) -
- Responsive images: the simplest solutions are the best solutions -
- September 2012
- A ‘Brand Bible’ for Norwich Cathedral -
- Our shallow Twittering world -
- New contact details for Lucent Web Design -
- New website for St Margaret’s Academy, Devon -
- Design tomes that escaped the book bank -
- A new career in a new town -
- Galileo’s Muse -
- New website for the St George Orthodox Information Service -
- August 2012
- The warm glow of faith -
- Resources for implementing a simple responsive navigation toggle pattern -
- On the liberty to criticise - even if not particularly well informed -
- Digital design and tactility -
- Lusieri’s luminous horizons -
- Adobe Edge 12 months on -
- Estimated reading time? I’ll estimate that myself thanks -
- July 2012
- Etheldreda’s celestial ship -
- Some notes on WordCamp Edinburgh 2012 -
- Analogue signals -
- Too much web development theory is making this designer a dull boy -
- The Zen of Steve Jobs -
- Two and a half cheers for longer term contracts -
- Two classic resources for complex Photoshop selections -
- June 2012
- Coffee shop ambience -
- Vintage Soviet lomography summer fun with Android -
- Avoiding Gotham: selecting a new typeface for Lucent -
- A new website for The Stair Society -
- Another look at the EU Cookie Law -
- Christopher Hitchens and writing for the web -
- Something from nothing -
- Sinking into Prometheus -
- The Modernist - classical modernism in contemporary graphic design -
- May 2012
- Some naive thoughts on developing an enterprise culture -
- The church and the web -
- The aesthetics of wind farms -
- Music for airports -
- A new website for ScotWeave -
- A Borders storm -
- Some simple steps for better content editing -
- Lux Aeterna -
- The Icon Handbook - a review -
- A view of the EU Cookie Law -
- April 2012
- Hosokawa’s cloud and light -
- Content modelling with ExpressionEngine -
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum: 30 years old today -
- Dutch Total Football and the practice of design -
- Instagram and the value of contrast -
- On not quite agreeing with Jakob Nielsen -
- The idea of ‘white’ -
- Looking up -
- Lufthansa + Graphic Design -
- March 2012
- More mobile web resources -
- Borders Creative mobile web slides and links -
- Patience (After Sebald) -
- A break in the clouds -