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I guess you might call this a kind of retraction… of sorts

  • March 8th, 2010
  • Posted in Film

I posted up an article yesterday which summarised some do’s and don’ts for organisers of film events. It was prompted by my experience of a local film festival I attended this weekend, and contained some examples of things which I felt could have been done better. Now, I appreciate the effort that goes into organising these [ READ MORE ]

Some advice for organising a film event

  • March 7th, 2010
  • Posted in Film

This is an edited version of an article I posted on Sunday. You can read the reasons for the edit over here. Since our decision to cease the CFN screenings as of the new year, we’ve been really enjoying getting out and about to attend events as patrons for a change. Although our screenings were only [ READ MORE ]

North: website design process

I made this a while ago, but due to my slackness in updating the old blog for quite some time, it’s never made it on here. As part of the North project we’re developing in partnership with folly I needed to produce a new web presence. It was quite a quick job, as time and resource [ READ MORE ]

A new approach to web accessibility?

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about web accessibility lately. A lot of that thinking has been to do with how I can improve accessibility in the work I do. I do my best to design interfaces which are logical and easy to navigate, follow accessibility guidelines where they are applicable and appropriate and [ READ MORE ]

North stretchy reboot prep

I've been working on a new design treatment for the North website. Since the project has changed so dramatically since its inception earlier this year, we've introduced a new logo, and in turn will be launching a reboot of the website very soon[ READ MORE ]

Getting hot under the collar

I was really excited to see the launch of Fever yesterday - a new web-based application from the uber-talented Shaun Inman. Let me start by saying that this is neither a critique of Shaun or his new app. Shaun is both a very talented web designer and an innovative developer, and his work is held in high regard - and rightly so. Fever looks like a really great app which looks to be a beautifully conceived idea which opens up all sorts of new ideas[ READ MORE ]

A Poetic Film Fest Trailer with After Effects and Particular

Studio Daily have an excellent article about Pierre Michel's process for creating the opening trailer for a French film festival, Polar dans la ville. The whole 40 second sequence took three weeks to complete, and was created mostly in After Effects. What's most interesting is the approach he took to dealing with high resolution images in a short timeframe[ READ MORE ]

Announcing North 2009

We just launched an exciting new initiative called North. It's going to be a creative conference taking place in South Cumbria this coming Summer, and we have some really great plans for it[ READ MORE ]

Websites & Sausages – Prologue

I've recently experienced a web design epiphany. It's funny how you work with stuff for so long, and you become very entrenched in a certain way of doing things. You follow the trends because that's the consensus. You ocassionally push the boundaries in small ways, to create distinct designs and user experiences. But there are certain guidelines you set yourself; basic rules you adhere to. Many times it's subconscious: you do things a certain way because, well, you've always done things that way, everybody else does them that way, so there's no reason to change[ READ MORE ]

Muji Obsession

  • January 15th, 2009
  • Posted in Design

An intriguing little article from the New York Times, all about the design ethos of Muji (via James)[ READ MORE ]

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