Designing flyers, leaflets, postcards and business cards can be a risky business – a single typo, missed by the designer and the client signing it off goes to print, suddenly you have 10,000 business cards that are completely unusable – they have to be reprinted with the cost that comes along with it. Even worse [...]
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Web vs Print 2 – Typos
May 12th, 2009 in Design, ObservationsWeb vs Print 1
May 10th, 2009 in Design, ObservationsOn my way to work I drive past a house, the owner currently has their car for sale – I’m not 100% sure what the car is because the only you get is that there is a sandwich board outside with 3 words chalked on; “Car for Sale” Now, I can’t imagine anybody driving past [...]
The BBC iPlayer on the Nintendo Wii
March 30th, 2009 in Design, ObservationsOn the first weekend of the new f1 season the live coverage was on the BBC in the early hours of the morning, so wanting to watch the repeat the BBC’s iplayer was the option ahead; but I didn’t want to watch it on my 12″ PowerBook so I investigated whether watching it on our [...]
helping out the economy
March 25th, 2009 in Design, ObservationsThis year and in the future i’m going to take small steps to help out the UK economy, how you might ask? Well, by purchasing web based services such as hosting and domain names at UK companies. Keeping my hard earned money and the money that I invoice my clients with in the UK – [...]
New Year's Resolution – Passive Income
January 27th, 2009 in Design, ObservationsThe term passive income is something I’ve noticed around the freelance and design blogs websites for a while now. It’s a way of earning money from something that can be created, and once it exists income (hopefully) can trickle in from either subscriptions of customer purchases – this obviously depends on what the product / [...]
Social networking? Digital stalking!
January 21st, 2009 in Observations, Social NetworkingI’ve been called an attention seeker a couple of times over the last few months, and I’m not 100% sure that it fits into my character. Close friends think I’m the exact opposite – fairly shy actually. But if you look at what I get up to online, then an attention seeker I might be. [...]
wordpress update
July 28th, 2008 in Design, Observationsmy previous blog was managed with wordpress 2.0.5 and originally setup in december 2006, a long time ago – especially in the blogging world. there were 1 or 2 bugs appearing in my blog, such as duplicate contents on single pages, and after looking through the wordpress support forums an update was recommended. i backed [...]
a tidy and a promise
July 27th, 2008 in Observationsi’ve been ignoring my blog, but i’m going to try and post more often – i’ve also had a little tidy up as i realised there’s a load of broken links and missing images on some older posts. i’ve also trimmed down on the categories – there were 11, which is far too many – [...]
gavin & stacey = friends
May 18th, 2008 in Observationsi didn’t really get into the bbc’s hit comedy gavin & stacey until the second series, but by the end of this last series i thought it was a cute little show that i really quite enjoyed – but i did start noticing a lot of similarities to a little tv show from across the [...]
CD stuck in my little G4 Powerbook
April 27th, 2008 in ObservationsI was ripping a few mix cd’s for my ipod yesterday and i put a disc in the drive and it didn’t show up in itunes, or in finder – very strange… so i restarted and nothing changed, i held down the eject key on the keyboard and still nothing happened. this was when i [...]
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