Dec 2010

Digital interface style guide considerations

Many existing brand guide lines don’t talk about digital applications, often haven’t considered any sort of branded time-based (animation) guidelines and rarely discuss any form of interactive graphic language or interaction principles. This post attempts to document best practise for developing digital brand guidelines.

Mar 2010

Games as multi-genre digital content for the web & mobile

After attending the Games Based Learning 2010 conference in London I’ve come away with a realisation of what the medium is capable of and present the case that web designers should be informed and ready to implement games as another form of digital content.

Mar 2010

Typographic inspiration

Letterpress printing creates a bite in the page

For the past six years or so I’ve been pretty obsessed with typography, among other things. I’m generally obsessed with my interests so it’s nice to find people to share the obsession with. Here is a list of my current favourite sources for all things typography related.

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.

Aug 2009

25 years of cyberpunk

hostile takeover

It began with a fascination with the Commodore 64, an interface in to virtual worlds, that lead to my passion for cyberpunk culture — literature, games, art and music. Over the years the interface evolved, a lot more rapidly as I got older and had money to spend on hardware. I developed a strong interest […]

Jul 2009

The Forgotten Web Standard

This movie reminds me of my day, only in three minutes! I think there’s something quite beautiful, raw and revealing about it. It’s purpose is to demonstrate the process of creating a set of slides that were used in the author’s presentation. The presentation was given at The Future of Web Design by Mike Kus, […]