
Alex’s Copenhagen Recommendations
Since moving to the Danish capital a few months ago, I have become some sort of encyclopaedic modern-day flâneur who knows about all…
Bewildered ramblings from a daft designer floundering at the deep end of the creative pool.
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Since moving to the Danish capital a few months ago, I have become some sort of encyclopaedic modern-day flâneur who knows about all…
So, Riga recently embarrassed itself with the infinitely bright idea of running a logo competition. For the entire city – yep. I…
Last “summer” in Scotland I had an hour long commute to and from work. I would check the weather on my phone…
We’re a good while away from Valentines day yet, but I’d like to write a letter of fondness. To those who spend…
The temptation to say something incredibly unoriginal at this time of year, such as “Oh, my resolution this year is 72dpi” has…
While still at university, and eager for a multitude of ways to avoid coursework, my friends and I used to regularly compile…
As a designer, I use a tonne of photos. I’m often hunting for a particular type of image, and it’s amazing how…
I’m a 30 year old Scottish designer and front-ender, currently living in Riga, Latvia. I’m comfortable doing design and front-end development, but…
Last weekend I put on my manliest man-clothes, brushed up my chest-hair so it stuck out the top of my manliest shirt…
This morning I didn’t turn my computer on. I didn’t have Skype ceremoniously power-up and show me who was online, I didn’t…
Motivate: To provide with an incentive; move to action; impel. Inspire: 1 To stimulate to action; motivate. 2 To be the cause…
A few years ago now, I met Chris “can you turn the music down please” Liversidge in a marginally above average hipster-infused…
Currently, QueryClick are hiring for a junior designer and front-end developer. It’s nice to see applications coming in, and I love people’s…
I was a bit of a troublemaker at school. Not the sort who bullied people for their lunch money, or stole other…
It sounds like a very cliched, somewhat back-handed compliment to describe a place as “having culture”. To insinuate that you perhaps expected…
Accurately described by Thomas Roman of Connecticut State University as “completely nuts”; a young Iranian inventor recently claimed to have built a…
I’ve been getting a bit irked lately at the amount of guff kicking around on the net concerning both “flat” and “skeuomorphic”…
You know those creative meetings when you start with the best intentions? Everyone arrives complete with a fresh Moleskin and pencils sharpened…
I’ll be honest. I twisted the title slightly there. Design isn’t strictly persuasion per-say. And nor should it be. But for many…
I used to think SEO was a load of ruddy nonsense. I was a designer and front-end developer who wrote solid HTML…