Recipes for the visual thinker

How recipes should look by Starsammy, on Flickr

Project Canvas: Project Clunky

I was privileged to be a part of the Future Tech 2010 Conference in Media City, Salford on Wednesday, surrounded by a broad cross-section of digital media and technology types, exploring the exciting new projects and initiatives launching across the North West over the next…

Finding the right tones of voice

In marketing, we often hear the phrase “Tone of Voice” used to describe how a brand communicates with its audience. It’s usually used as a way of defining the character of a brand in written or spoken language, and expressed as a combination of simple adjectives like…

Three Riff Raff web projects shortlisted for regional design awards

Three of our recent web design and build projects have been shortlisted for regional design awards The SMACS, organised by digital media collective Super Mondays.

Ditching Tumblr for good

Goodbye Tumblr

Okay, I take it back — earlier this year I moved my blog to Tumblr because I found the feature-bloat in Wordpress a bit of a ball-ache. Tumblr’s lightweight feature-set is great for quick, impulsive post-writing, which actually encouraged me to…

Those clever folks at Microsoft have done it again (no, really)

Yes, that’s one ‘C’ word I never thought I’d use to describe the company who brought us Vista, but whilst leaving the office juniors to plot the next thrilling episode of Internet Explorer, Microsoft have been beavering…

2010: the year of clipart branding

Seeing the new GAP logo, kindly pointed out to me by one of our lead developers this morning, makes…