Work
MagCulture.com
MagCulture.com The magCulture blog bangs the drum for editorial design. We love all types of magazines and newspapers, whether in print or digital form. What matters is the innovation, creativity and thought behind them. The blog is is written by … Continue reading
MagCulture.com
MagCulture.com The magCulture blog bangs the drum for editorial design. We love all types of magazines and newspapers, whether in print or digital form. What matters is the innovation, creativity and thought behind them. The blog is is written by … Continue reading
Kate Cooke Designs
A new website to help Kate Cooke, a textile designer and now “textile pattern painter” display and sell her work online. Continue reading
Joanie’s Junk
The creation of Joanie’s Junk website, an Vintage Styling and online shop. Joanie’s Junk specialises in affordable vintage pieces with a catwalk twist. As a Fashion Promotion lecturer, Joanie is always on the look out for pieces which are beautifully made but translate into a contemporary style and shape. Continue reading
Spencer Trace
We have built the new portfolio website for SpencerTrace.com. With the focus being on the work, the navigation plays a key supporting role to the content. Continue reading
Forage
Go to Behance’s 99% website to make your ideas happen, read and learn about how other people are approaching the same challenges as yourselves. “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” — Thomas Edison At 99%, Behance‘s think tank, we … Continue reading
This is a great source of information to keep up with all things copyright. “In 1709 the Statute of Anne created the first purpose-built copyright law. This blog, founded just 300 short and unextended years later, is dedicated to all … Continue reading
Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is “Our Choice,” Al Gore’s sequel to “An Inconvenient … Continue reading
What People Search For – Most Popular Keywords – Search Engine Watch (SEW) http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156041
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Philosophy
I have a philosophy that helps form my fundamental principles for design and education.
These are as follows:
- Design can make a difference; Design can make things work better
- Form and Function, both have beauty, but they need each other, perhaps emotionally functional is a more appropriate term
- Challenge, yourself and others. “A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education” – Smiley Blanton.
- Creative Passion, believe in what you do.
- Values, stick to what you believe is right and wrong.
- Variety, never stay still , draw on a range of sources for inspiration, constantly strive to learn and improve
- Space, give yourself space and time to reflect
- Question, Listen, Understand, Facilitate. Go for a walk for ideas not a wander through Google Images. “Think with your mind, Forget Technology. Creativity is not device dependent” Bruce Mau.
- Forage, Deep learning, the answer is not in one place
- Empower, further your inquisitive nature, be independent and take ownership
- Sorry, admit when you are wrong and learn from it, we often learn more from mistakes than success. “Fail, Fail and Fail again better” S. Beckett.
- Environment, everything that surrounds us influences us, look after it, care for it.
- Collaborate, share, grow, the seemingly impossible will become possible.
- Create for others not for you.
- Seriously, chill out, do not take yourself too seriously it is silly and boring.
- Process, have a process, change that process, adapt the process, change in time and for projects
- Balance & harmony
- Change, this list will change, as we change and develop
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