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The art of web design
How often have you found yourself getting angry over a clients tactless comment, or a colleagues flippant feedback? When I say angry, I don’t mean the type of anger where you roll your eyes and move on, I am referring to the anger that sticks around, makes your face a lot warmer and brighter in colour, makes your muscles tense up, and probably revisits your imagination just as you close your eyes at night, reliving all the physical effects you witnessed earlier, preventing you from slowly drifting off into slumberland. Read the full article »
A recipe for web design success
Having spent the past decade designing and observing web designs I started wondering if there was a secret formula to successful web design. Do we have to use a certain amount of gradients, subtle shadows, light effects and great typography or is it simply a matter of instinct and balance. Obviously web design like all the other types of design is subjective so one designers preference is another’s garbage but is there a middle ground that can be found using this elusive formula? Read the full article »
Jeeves makes his return
At first glance many branding experts may be quick to Judge Ask.co.uk and criticise their decision to bring back Jeeves, but in my opinion it is probably the best move the dwindling search provider could have made. Google dominates this market, everyone knows that and it’s close to impossible to compete against such a Goliath that has grown to mammoth proportions in market share, influence, share price and just about anything that can be measured. Read the full article »
Sci Fi rebrand is out of this world
Set phasers to dumb, the Sci-Fi channel have officially announced their upcoming rebrand, they are changing the name of their network to SyFy. That’s right, in a move that can only be described as out of this world, they are changing the spelling but not the sound of their name. The original name obviously comes from the channels content, Science Fiction, or Sci-Fi for short. For anyone thinking this is an early April fool’s joke, I did, here is a pretty real looking press release. Read the full article »