Great Article from Eclipse Creative – no apologies for lifting this from their blog. Its a great read. Head over to the original blog for more info… Social media is common place in most marketing strategies these days and it’s no wonder why when companies claim that visitors to a website are statistically more likely to convert when visiting from…
Teaching WordPress as part of my digital scholarship approach to personal perspectives. Trying to explain categorisation vs tagging of blog posts… Got to use some deliciously old school technology. A whiteboard and a pen…
I upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS5 yesterday and immediately had some problems. The upgrade seemed to want me to create an iCloud account and wouldnt let me finish the set up without the iCloud account, so I went ahead and tried to set it up. The phone immediatley decided to back up to iCloud. When the phone restarted after…
Great little film from Microsoft showing a view of teh future. Very slick and well produced, but im not convinced that I like the overall tenor of this. It all feels a litte too much like the distopian version of the future portrayed in the classic Logans Run and the more recent The Island. Not sure I want all of…
The Guardian iPad edition: ‘Put the newspaper on the iPad’ – Andy Brockie from the Guardian’s digital design team shares the key stages behind the design development of the new Guardian iPad app Gives a really good insight into the depth of the process – design students be aware…
Short notes from my lecture today (18th October 2011) on registering a domain name and setting up a server to self host a wordpress blog. The lecture was for University of Wales Newport Graphics students. Web Site Set Up Lecture Notes View more presentations from Dave Taylor.
Great intelligence on the benefits of inbound marketing vs outbound marketing. Its a bit myopic in its unrelenting focus on the US, but a good read anyway. 100 Awesome Marketing Stats, Charts and Graphs
Great presentation on what to avoid when thinking about campaigns… 10 Things I Hate about Advertising
Twelve Points of Typography This is a great article that I fond here. Discussing the “art” of typography. It dates from the late 1960’s so some of the language is a bit dated, as are some of the ideas, but it still makes a good read. i would add to the bit about line length that we should endevour to…
Ok, I like technology, could even be said that I love technology. Ive been using macs for design work since 1988 when we had a MAC II and an SE. We had what I seem to remember what was a beta copy of illustrator 88, direct from the new Adobe European office in Holland, and we were working with a…