Mar 2010

12th Independent Games Festival

Limbo, from Playdead, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Independent Games Festival unfortunately doesn’t get a lot of main stream media coverage but I think showcases innovative ideas in interaction, game design and art.

Mar 2010

Sony PS3 vs Microsoft XBox 360

Having finally been able to justify purchasing a Playstation 3 I thought I’d give a quick comparison of it against my trusty Xbox 360.

Dec 2009

Designers + consumerism

The evolution of graphic design over the past 100 years from purely aesthetics to meeting functional, cultural, social and production requirements has helped to develop the change and growth of consumerism.

Oct 2009

Album cover design

Dan Tobin Smith

A collection of impressive Album cover designs all created by designers based in London, UK.

Oct 2009

Adopting radical design

Modern vs traditional house

Radical new approaches to design are often controversial, especially if they challenge a ‘traditional’ model — where many are instantly dismissed by their potential audience as being ugly. I recently experienced this while looking at purchasing a new scooter. It’s an interesting process and made me wonder.. are we missing out on mass improvements within […]

Sep 2009

The most important thing I learned about design

The medium is the message

One of the primary theories within design that became clearer to me as I progressed through my career was that visual rhetoric is personal to the reader, and is based on their previous experiences — with the medium, their culture, always a combination of the two and more than often includes other influences too. This […]