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The new Old Guard – Part 1 – Design
I wrote this article about a previous version of Old Guard so a few things mentioned are no longer on the site. I am really pleased to be launching the fourth version of oldguard.co.uk and I want to...
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The new Old Guard – Part 2 – Technical
I wrote this article about a previous version of Old Guard so a few things mentioned are no longer on the site. In the previous article I covered the history, design, branding and the aims of this new...
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Designs on your CV
When we recruit I see a lot of CVs from web designers. Some are amazing, but unfortunately the majority suffer from one or all of a checklist of issues. A few improvements really could make all the...
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Soft personalisation
Personalisation is a great way to improve a user’s visit to your site. Recently I have been really interested in the different ways of approaching this – the traditional and what I am calling ‘Soft...
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The re-re-re-re-design
I am very pleased to be launching version 5 of oldguard.co.uk today. The process of designing and building this iteration has been ongoing for the past few months and it feels great to get it live. A...
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California is a place
I first spotted a film from the ‘California is a place’ series whilst combing through Vimeo for things to post on my Hey look, bikes! site. Since then I have featured a few of the cycling themed films...
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Planned Obsolescence
One of the announcements yesterday at WWDCSpecifically not supporting the iPad under iOS6 when the specs are comparable to, if not better than, supported devices! reminded me of this great video by...
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Margin notes
I have used margin/foot notes on Old Guard for a couple of years now;I use notes from time to time for asides or comments I add into an article later, or just for a bit of narrative that doesn’t quite...
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Monome
Monome – two fifty six model a monome is a reconfigurable grid of back-lit keypads which connects to a computer. interaction between the keys and lights is determined by the application running on the...
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Licensing design work and the WTFPL
I am planning on releasing some free vectors on this site in the near future and have been looking for a license that makes it as easy as possible to use them. I want a license that basically says ‘Use...
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WTHR
Two things: I am a big fan of Dieter Rams,If you are interested in Rams’ work Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams is an excellent and comprehensive overview. especially his work for Braun...
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Is it time for an Audacious Proposal?
Dalton Caldwell’s proposal for a social platform without adverts: App.net is a real-time social feed without the ads App.net is a different kind of social platform. We’re building a real-time social...
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Spherikal
Spherikal is a short film by Ion Lucin This is a small animation I did as an exercise to experiment and explore all the graphical possibilities of representing the idea of the SPHERE, always thinking...
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R. Buckminster Fuller
I know that I am not a category, a hybrid specialization, I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb – an evolutionary process - an integral function of the universe, and so are you. — R....
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Responsive navigation roundup
A few weeks ago, whilst researching techniques for complex navigations, I was hunting for a responsive design pattern gallery. I couldn’t find one,This could be a great side project if anyone is...
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Finding the ‘one true way’ of the web
As designers and developers we seem to be constantly in search of the correct way of doing things – the one, singular, true way – the definitive, and only, method of accomplishing a task. All...
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Teenage Engineering
Teenage Engineering is a studio for future commercial products. We design and create everything from electronics, software and industrial design in-house. Our mission is to create amazing products with...
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Akihabara Majokko Princess
I am a big fan of Takashi Murakami. Some of his stuff is pretty crazy/odd and this video, Extra bonus points for anyone spotting Nigo and Murakami himself in the videoof Kirsten Dunst singing a cover...
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Taking notes is meant to be easy
Adventures with Simplenote, Notational Velocity, Dropbox and Notesy This sounds like one of those ‘How many *something* does it take to change a lightbulb’ jokes… Just how many apps does it take to get...
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Connecting
I think everybody is a little too fascinated with making interfaces that look like they can be touched. — Andrei Herasimchuk, director of the design team at Twitter Connecting, from Bassett &...
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