Over the past month, we’ve been beavering away at 33 Digital writing and pulling together our Digital Trends Report for 2013. We’ve been doing it for four years so far, and each time has been a great exercise in looking at what’s happening and what will happen in the year to come. I managed to author [...]

Coming to the end of 2012, it seems my ‘one post a week’ idea didn’t quite work out. It’s the tried and tested excuse of too much work landing on my plate that’s to blame. In the past few months, I’ve been keeping myself busy, branding club nights and launching new websites, playing with jquery [...]

Got bored yesterday on my day off and pulled together a couple of posters based on some quotes I’ve heard at conferences both recently and in the past. The first one (Share. Play. Create.) was inspired by @seb_ly (from CreativeJs.com) at DIBI Conference. The man is a creative genius, with the work he’s done with coding and visuals [...]

Just finished a collaborative design job with the lovely Sam (he deserves most of the credit for coming up with it all) for the FT, showing the use of their mobile HTML5 web app. There were some interesting stats that were missed out of this one too, such as they’ve seen 50% of native app users [...]

I’ve never been good at drawing people. I can never seem to capture shadow correctly, or get the right colours. I’ve been playing with my tablet and tracing over photos, and now having a play with colour. I’ve thrown more colour on this one, but then stripped it back because it didn’t look great. Anyway, [...]

I’ve been playing around with watercolour style painting again, but this time moving across into photoshop. The only thing I don’t like about drawing in photoshop using the tablet is that I haven’t yet found a way to smooth lines, so my unsteady hand shows more (anybody know a way to do smoother lines in [...]

Today I mostly laid on the couch, struck down with illness. I threw on the Richard Ayoade film Submarine in the afternoon and I absolutely love the titles. The 60s (I think?) style typography, with massive kerning/tracking to fit it in lines and bold colour is gorgeous. I did some research and it looks like [...]

Playing with websites and content for most of the day, I’ve come to appreciate the subtleties of a beautifully crafted paragraph. However, something that a lot of people don’t understand is that the aesthetic elements of the paragraph are just as important in achieving a readable, balanced paragraph. There are some rules when it comes [...]

I’m having a play with layering in illustrator. I’m not sure I’ve got it down yet, but considering I never had great success with real paints, it’s far better than anything I could’ve done without a computer. Here’s a work in progress: