Talking of Design

Blog shaped articles about design, web, illustration – & all the other stuff I do. Some of the stuff here could be moderately interesting / useful ...

North Wayhey-les!

29/01/23 • WEB DESIGN, SERVICES, NORTH WALES

Once upon a time, if you searched "freelance web design" anywhere in the world in Google, I would appear on the first page - indeed, for a while at the top spot. But . . . more

Freelance-Web.Design

18/03/22 • WEB DESIGN, SERVICES

I've launched a new, how to say, "arm" of my business - Freelance Web Design. more

This is a bit of a smoke and mirrors way of dealing with FOUC (flash of unstyled content) on your website, while still getting the “Look Mum! I’ve got green on my Google page speed analysis check!” I c... more

Breathe life back into designing

28/04/15 • WEB DESIGN, ART

A post about how life drawing might be a helpful activity for the tired designer, and also how the problems of life drawing are similar to the problems faced by designers — web, print or other. Oh and ... more

Flat has some depth

07/04/14 • WEB DESIGN

A post in-which I discuss the fact that flat web design is more than a passing trend, and also some reasoning as to why it perhaps isn’t taken as seriously as it should. So we’re well into the new year... more