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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 →

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 →

Epsom Writes

Amplified Clothing

Forage

Google Fonts
Extra fonts for when you are creating your websites from Google.
Russell Davies – How to be interesting
Feeling a little boring, not sure what is going on in the world around you? Read Russell Davies article on how to be interesting.
TypeKit
Typekit (recently acquired by Adobe) offers a whole range of fonts that you can use to make your website beautiful and accessible. Hurray!
“Be inspired by it, not copy it”
“Be inspired by it, not copy it” Everything is a Remix is produced by Kirby Ferguson, a New York-based filmmaker. The site is a companion piece to the four-part video series. Kirby Ferguson
MagCulture
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 Jeremy … Continue reading →

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

Work