It's less a new year's resolution and more a general promise to myself, but I promised myself I'd write more publicly for 2011. I have a terrible timidity curse. It's the fear that the person you think you are isn't ...Read More
And so it's Christmas. Christmas time. It's actually after Christmas, in that strange hinterland between Christmas and New Year's. If you're self-employed and a bit skittish, as I sort of am, it's a time to gather ye your receipts for ...Read More
Way back in May, Vince Fraser, a digital designer and illustrator based in west London, suggested we do an interview for Mawgablog. I said, yeah great! And we did the interview. It’s taken forever for me to get it all ...Read More
I had this entry in my written diary dated Tuesday 18 May. I thought it would be an interesting post. It goes like this: I told Fiona (my flatmate) about this dream I had, involving Andrew Neil. I had a dream. For ...Read More
I made a vow to myself while I was walking around Hackney, mumbling to myself about this and that – my personal liquidity crisis, fried chicken, sirens, traffic congestion, pollen and the range of things peculiar to E9 and E8 ...Read More
It's been a long time coming, but I've got my online portfolio up on Mawgablog. It's in the Published Articles section. It's been a bit of a palaver for one simple reason. Choice. Previously, I'd been blogging away happily on MySpace, ...Read More
I've been mulling over all this Flash-iPhone, Apple v Adobe stuff for a while now, and then lo and behold, Steve Jobs writes an open letter about it on the Apple website. So, I got some posh stationery and wrote ...Read More
If you're a regular (haha!), you might have seen my previous entry about my trip to The Gambia with Play Action UK, a newish nonprofit organisation dedicated to youth workers in the UK and Africa. The trip was all about ...Read More
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="287" caption="Fabulous to think that Photoshop once came on a floppy disk"][/caption] Wow. Photoshop is 20 years old today. There will shortly be a generation of young designers around who won't have lived in the 'pre-Photoshop' world. Actually, ...Read More
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="595" caption="The Gambia is a former British colony oddly poked into Senegal"][/caption] I recently had the good fortune to go to The Republic of the Gambia as part of a youth-based charity partnership. London's Play Action and Cardiff ...Read More