July 2007

What are the laws of design?

As my blogging life has blossomed, I have come across more and more so-called ‘memes’. When I first heard the term I confess I didn’t really know what it meant. So I looked it up in the dictionary:

meme -noun
A cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission [...]

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A retired DJ’s month of music: House

Friday is here and the weekend has landed… so why not listen to some House music?

I’ve revealed here before that I’m a retired DJ. I hung up my headphones in the professional sense just over two years ago, and since moving house early last year I have not even touched the wheels of steel for [...]

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Cleaning up graffiti with time lapsed photography

Young artists in Berlin are pushing the boundaries of graffiti art by getting rid of the spray paint and replacing it with torches, glow sticks and digital cameras.

Flickr user, lichtfaktor calls himself a Lightwriter and creates stunning photography by setting his camera to over-expose and ‘painting’ various lights into the shot. The result is a [...]

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See my personal business card design

Just over a month ago I designed and printed personal business cards for my graduation exhibition. In fact, I ended up printing a few more cards than I needed, but that’s another story altogether.

The design uses the coloured circular elements from my personal logo design, and the branding is consistent with my business website, printed [...]

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