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 -