Mearso

Cargo Cult

Posted 6 August 08

More involved piece of drawing where I’ve taken the basic sketch and used Photoshop to Add texture and colour. It’s both good and bad to use the a masking technique in Photoshop.

Good because you can easily recover mistakes and change your mind about where the work is going, but potentially bad, because if you are like me, you can easily get drawn into optionitis, where one plays about with options and loses the spontaneity of the original.

Bigger version over at Flickr, where you can see the textures a little better

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Design is..

Posted 15 September 06

In response to the original Jon Hicks post here is my effort

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The fine art of Web design

Posted 18 July 06

After last years @media talk I was looking to Andy’s session to send me away from the conference fired up and enthusiatic about new directions for web design and he didn’t dissapoint.

After last years @media talk I was looking to Andy’s session to send me away from the conference fired up and enthusiatic about new directions for web design and he didn’t dissapoint. Being such a renaissance man it seemed too obvious not to use Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man as the starting point.

I thoroughly enjoyed the broad sweep of design thinking that Andy made everyone think about, and a timely reminder that the field of web design relates to a bigger picture of design.

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