I get approached by recruiters fairly often, for roles in Edinburgh, or, increasingly, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Vienna… Even Kuwait once! I’m always happy to chat with people who take the time to approach me, but I’ve noticed something of a pattern starting to emerge. I’ve been contracting for the last…

About a year ago, I wrote about design and having OCD. It was the first time I addressed the subject so publicly, a breakthrough in itself! …

From time to time, Linkedin sends me job ads it thinks I might be interested in, this is usually worth a look to see how badly its algorithmn’s match jobs to what I do, but from time to time it spits out something worth looking at. But then… ‘Deeply competitive…

I moved flat earlier this year, returning to Edinburgh from Glasgow. One of the resultant enjoyable tasks that had to be completed was paying my final electricity bill. The bill itself boasted of being able to pay online, as well it should, it’s 2018 after all! …

I’ve talked before about designers not being valued, not being paid enough, clients expecting work on the cheap, or worse, for free. It’s pretty bloody annoying, so when I encounter things that help to perpetuate that culture, I, unsurprisingly, get annoyed. There are a number of sites dotted around the…

I’ve been getting hypnotherapy recently, in part for my OCD, more on that later, but it’s got me thinking about mental health again; mine, and in the creative industry in general. It’s not a problem unique to the creative industries by any means, nor would I say we have it…

From the outside, I imagine that ‘design’ falls into a category that I’m going to call a ‘dream job,’ in that, it’s something that lots (and lots) of people want to do, whether it’s just a frustrated creative daydream, or one of the countless kids (and adults) that head off…

After (finally) refreshing my portfolio site recently, I ran into some difficulty, with a previous employer getting in touch to object to my use of work I’d done there. Now, I’d deliberately chosen work that’s publicly available online, as in you could go and look at them, live, right now…

Last night, we were very (very) fortunate to have Chris Do come to talk to us in Edinburgh, all the way from California.