Tag Archive: Design

• Leeds Digital Conference preview

  Lots of digital thought is converging on Leeds next week, and I’ll be doing a talk as part of it. The Leeds Digital Conference features a mix of talks and sessions covering design, development, marketing, SEO and blogging. It’s part…

• Twelve stories high

  I went along to the third incarnation of The Story, a conference based around storytelling in its many forms, in the fantastic Conway Hall in London. There was a pleasingly eclectic roster of speakers, all lovingly emblazoned on the solid…

• Open data, open to all

  Here’s a write-up of some interesting open data projects showcased at Manchester’s FutureEverything conference in May. There was an overarching theme at this year’s FutureEverything of ‘cities’ – what makes them unique, what drives their development, how people live in…

• Sweating the small stuff

  Do the fine details really matter to a powerful brand? Last year I took my family on holiday to Center Parcs. In terms of a brand experience, I was rather impressed. From its well presented and easy to use website,…

• Dissecting dContruct – part 1

  Part one of my report from dConstruct’s one-day conference in Brighton. With a pleasantly varied range of talks and speakers, down by the seaside in Brighton, I was rather excited. The Designful Company Things started very well with Marty Neumeier,…

• You beauty!

  Is data visualisation getting a bad name? I was pleased to see graphic design in the news this week, for reasons other than the usual public and tabloid outrage over massive fees for ‘just a logo’. Data visualisation was the…

• My favourite logo

  I have finally decided upon my all-time favourite logo. I can very rarely point out a single thing to be my absolute favourite ‘anything’. Ususally, there are too many shifting factors and circumstances which stop me being able to claim…

• Perfection is hard to love

  Is it the imperfections we see in things which endear us to them? My very first post on this blog was on the notion of ‘perfection’ in design, and how if you look at certain, often mundane things objectively, it…

• Designing and building for the future

  I have always been a fan of post-war architecture, and its attempts at doing things differently. I admit this is partly due to being a child of the 1970s. I grew up surrounded by these kinds of buildings in Birmingham…

• Creative Networks – Patrick Burgoyne from Creative Review

  It was a full house in the lecture theatre at Leeds College of Art & Design last night, for June’s Creative Networks get-together. There was a nice pre-talk vibe due to it coinciding with the end-of-year shows for the various…