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Take My Texture

Take my Texture is a side project of mine. It is inspired by my obsession for photographing texture and my desire to give something back (however small) to the design world. I will be adding new...

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Blowing My Own Trumpet

My apologies for the shameless self promotion, but this site has been featured on a few css galleries, most notably cssmania.com Also featured on:...

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Adventures In CSS3

I have recently been really inspired by the experimental CSS3 work of both David Desandro and Trent Walton, so I decided to have a go myself. What I like about both these guys work is that their work...

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Will It Work?

So we now have a hung parliament? or is it a coalition? Anyway no matter what you might think of David Cameron he has been very astute in giving Nick Clegg a nothing job where he can keep his eye on...

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Need A Quote?

Check out this cool page I made to illustrate my five favourite quotes of all time. There’s plenty of css3 goodness here so I wouldn’t worry about using IE. I should also give a big shout out to The...

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Blowing My Own Trumpet .. Again

Apologies once more for some utterly shameless self promotion. I decided to redesign my site about a month or so ago as I got a bit bored with the last version. I also felt that it wasn’t really...

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CSS3 In Outer Space

I wanted to see if I could re-create (to a fashion) the fabulous Solarbeat project created by Whitevinyl, but using CSS3 rather than Flash. I really love everything about this project and could quite...

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The Greatest Show On Earth

There’s not long now until the World Cup starts and I’m already filled with the usual mixture of hope, expectation and pessimism. I’m looking forward to us (England that is) strolling through the...

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Texture Tutorial

Hello all and welcome to my first ever tutorial. As you’ve probably noticed I use a lot of textures, especially in my personal work. Some of my textured shots on dribbble.com have received a...

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Desktop Wallpapers

Download the above shot here. Just thought I’d make a couple of my more popular dribbble / sketchbook shots available as desktop wallpapers. You can resize as you see fit. Download the above shot here.

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For The Record

I’m over the moon to say that .net magazine have seen fit to award my site For The Record CSS site of the month for November. My thanks also go to CSS expert Inyaili De león for choosing the site for...

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Watch Your Step

Inspired by one of my favourite record covers and this CSS3 experiment by Trent Walton I thought I’d play around with some CSS3 text-shadow, –webkit-background-clip and –webkit-text-fill-color. Of...

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A New Resolution

I’m really enjoying the To Resolve Project from Chris Streger, so I thought I’d have a go myself (see above). The idea is to make an Iphone wallpaper with a new years resolution theme and there are...

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Center Of Attention

Just a quick prod in the direction of a new site I’ve put together, centerofattention.me, which is an idea I’ve been wanting to realise for a while but haven’t had the time. The site focuses on the...

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Don’t Try This At Home Kids

I recently had great fun using @font-face, lettering.js and some dingbat fonts to make this utterly silly and ridiculous page. It is a love story told in dingbats and called Where do I begin? (which...

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Mumbo Jumbo

I’ve really been enjoying the designers.mx project by Blake Allen and Josh Sullivan (two designers who’s work I really admire). So I was delighted to be asked to contribute a mix. Some of my favourite...

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2011 — Winning

So back in December I published this post declaring that my resolution for 2011 was to excercise more. I am happy to say that I am winning, for the last 6 weeks or so I’ve been going to my local gym...

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Free Faces

Just wanted to point you in the direction of a site I’ve just set up called Free Faces. This site was originally going to be a blog post to share links to free fonts that I like, but I soon realised...

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Sight & Sound

Introducing Decorated Playlists, a website I have put together, dedicated to the close relationship between music & design. I have always enjoyed sharing my knowledge of music, but now that I no...

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The Only Way Is Essex

Check out my new mix on designers.mx, it’s a celebration of music from my motherland, Essex — England. Even though I haven’t lived there for about 15 years, I do feel a little embarrassed by how it’s...

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