Three days a week I work at a Fine Art Print studio, printing reproductions of artists and illustrators work. Part of returning to work after two weeks off at Christmas is a yearly review of our prices and services, I also take care of the website – and this year it definitely needed a spring clean.

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Launched last week – a gallery, a shop to sell prints and a doodle blog for regular scribbles and doodles to be published. I’ve known and worked with Graham for a number of years through my work with a local studio who print his reproductions, Graham has mentioned a website to promote his work as well as selling prints of his considerable catalog of images. Finally, towards the end of 2010 Graham wanted to get started.

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I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now, and after seeing Dan Leech’s really impressive About.me page, I decided to vectorise my avatar so it could be enlarged and I could use it in a few more places – including about.me, without it looking pixelated and blurred.

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The rise of this networking and the continuous introduction of new ones have meant that individuals and companies have multiple profiles, for businesses especially – being consistent is of the utmost importance.

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Dribbble, the social network used by designers to show off their work in progress has just opened it’s doors to spectators and prospects. Previously you had to be invited — or drafted in — by an existing member of the community before you could do anything on the site.

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This tweet showed up on my time line this morning from @pixeldeath, pointing towards a Dribbble post entitled ‘Make your own album cover in under 10 minutes‘.

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is an impressive looking Tumblr blog showcasing the latest web companies, both recently launched as well as those in public and private beta. I’ve had a look through the websites and apps that are on the site and it’s a good list.

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Over the last few months the web / graphic design community has taken a stand against spec work, including posts by Paul Boag and a template style letter from Paul Annett. I completely agree with their points and the reasons we should turn away speculative jobs — I’ve turned away speculative work myself in the past, but after reading David Airey’s response I realised that I had a different perspective to call on.

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The Inflatable House was initially a podcast and blog set up for myself and a friend to host mixes and our music related posts, but after a few months our attention drifted to other projects and the podcast laid dormant. A few months ago I came up with an idea for a notice board for people to post music to, a place where people could shout about their new favourite record – the idea came at the time as I wanted to further explore Tumblr.

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Fresh Nutrition Advice is a service provided by Fiona Hayward to help people eat healthily, she offers one to one sessions to her clients and needed a website to advertise her service as well as providing advice to visitors via a blog. Fiona wanted a colourful website that was easy to use and simply to navigate, she also wanted to use lots of images of healthy food.

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