Drawing is my meditation. Learning to properly look at someone, see the shadows, the curves, the seams of their clothes or folds of their flesh… There is nothing more relaxing for me than to let my pencil lovingly caress them, and re-instantiate them, sketchily, on paper. No wonder my favourite life drawing sessions are with burlesque artists.
Time to read: < 1 minute This Saturday, i popped into the V&A to meet a friend for some sketching. I am quick-ish, whereas she is more meticulous. After maybe 45min, i had these two sketches. Hers was still in progress, and is way nicer than my quick doodles. Happy sketchbook Monday! […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutes I read a lot. I am always reading. Street signs, menus, books on the tube, magazines with my coffee, newspaper headlines as i pass a newsstand. I am a reader. My favourite escape and one of my favourite pastimes in life is to expose my brain to new experiences, information, emotions and ideas, using books. […] continue reading »
Time to read: 4 minutes What if you owned a big mall, say out in Kent, and you had a website that existed, but that you weren’t sure was very helpful? Maybe your stores listing was confusing. I’d love to poke around a mall’s google analytics data! Look at failed searches, where users quit, what they type in… Treasure trove […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minute I’m cheating a little. Someone asked me to sketch out some ideas for a mall application. And these are some of the sketches i’ve been working on. […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutes Some random Monday sketches. All drawn today. The wireframes are from the structure of a website I’m spending some time thinking about. It talks about children and tech (across games, online security, education, and more) and I have to say I rather like it. quib.ly: for techie parents. (this is my tagline, not theirs) They […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutes Ok. So maybe not “indestructible”. But if you use one of my travel card holders and it falls apart (you know, how the plastic ones do?) within a year of purchase, i’ll make you an identical new one for free! Yes, this applies to sit-on-it-daily young men too. No guarantees on the cards contained though! […] continue reading »
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Time to read: 2 minutes Most designers are perfectionists, and will continue working on something until it’s “just right”. This means we often use up all the time allocated and risk making something completely off the mark, to boot! Show them the post its, I say! Or, in this example, the labels… […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutes Went to another life drawing session at Candid Arts in Angel. Lovely as always. Here are my sketches from the evening. Uncensored. I’ve never believed in hiding the human form. It is beautiful as is. […] continue reading »
Time to read: 3 minutes My friend Peter Warwick-Mahoney, web developer extraordinaire (and a fairly awesome human, too) just tweeted about how a lot of his work starts on the back of an envelope, challenging the twittersphere to reply “how do _you_ work?”. I love learning about how people get things done, and quite fancied writing a reply longer than […] continue reading »