Making stuff shouldn’t be all work. So for a bit of fun, I am creating some little cartoons that should raise a smile for all creatives.
Images and textures from around Station X – the site of the wartime code breakers. Images include the Colossus re-build and various radio communications and interception paraphernalia.
Graphic design has been likened to a wine glass. When we drink wine we barely notice the glass it’s served in. It’s the same with graphic design: people absorb the messages that graphic designers use their skill, training and ingenuity to make, yet rarely stop to think how the message is constructed or how it affects the viewer.
This is a great analogy for graphic design. And, of course the same can be said good web design.
For me this also crystallises what I consider to be the difference between ‘design’ and ‘decoration’. It’s the reason that I contend that ‘fashion design’ and ‘interior design’ are less exacting disciplines than ‘product design’ and user interface design’.
Marketing partner, Claire Scaramanga hit’s the nail on the head when it comes to networking:
I don’t go to these events with a mission to give my card to as many people as possible. I go with a mission to meet interesting people who can possibly help me at some time and who I can also help.
It has always bothered me at networking events when greasy people push their greasy business cards at you, while all the time trying as hard as they can to dis-engage in conversation because they’ve got a full box of cards in their greasy pockets and they haven’t fully ‘worked the room’.
Filmed with a Sony PC100 Handycam in a Gates underwater housing.
The main attraction of diving The Farne Islands (Northumberland) are the inquisitive seals, which often nibble diver’s fins and generally take a look at the slow moving interlopers they find on their patch.