‘The Big Read’ is a broadsheet magazine design built for a website with a lot of content presented in a magazine digest layout
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Putting the ‘fun’ in functionality
Communication is the name of the game but clarity and accessibility don’t have to come at the expense of fun. Talk to the robot…
Read MoreDon’t charge extra for card payments – it’s illegal
Are you charging your customers extra for card payments? Adding a nominal amount of 50p or £1 for card vs cash payments is breaking the law and you risk prosecution. And worse…
Read MoreIt’s not the taking part, it’s the winning that counts
Why do you need Graphic Violence in your team? What exactly do we do for you? Founder, Tim Baggaley, dips into his youth for a lesson in teamwork
Read MorePaper Dolls for Derby Shakespeare
Creating artwork for theatre productions is great fun as every job is different and exciting. Designing for Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of ‘Paper Dolls’ was a joy
Read MoreA recipe for success
Take the right ingredients, blend them carefully and you can cook up a website that will feed the needs of all your hungry clients. Warning, the following article contains puns…
Read MoreDigital crisis management – what’s your recovery plan?
The Blue Screen Of Death, The Spinning Beachball Of Doom, hackers, thieves, spilt coffee, phones under water… What do you do when your digital life goes down the toilet?
Read MoreIs your website a freak like mine?
If you want a visually arresting and utterly unique website then you’re in the right place. Super Freak! is a stunner and looking for a home…
Read MorePutting practice into theory
When Tim Baggaley was commissioned by Northeastern University London to explain to psychology students how graphic design works, he forensically dissected his project methodology to show them how the mind of a creative operates
Read MoreThe Facebook problem and how to fix it
Many small businesses and solo traders rely on their posts to social networks to promote their trade while their domain name website sits collecting dust. That’s not good
Read MoreA perfect website design for event promotion
Do you organise events? You need a website designed like this one to highlight your smart calendar
Read MorePunk snot dead…
Music fans love the covers, sleeve notes and booklets that come with CD and vinyl records and we love designing them. Vinyl’s not dead and MP3s don’t come with gatefold inserts…
Read MoreAnimation movies for social media
We added Affinity’s suite of creative applications and Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve movie-maker to our repertoire in this animation project
Read MoreUsing ZOOM is a calculated security risk
The enormous user take-up for Zoom under the COVID-19 lockdown has seen it become synonymous with video conferencing the way Google has with searching. But is it still a Trojan horse?
Read MoreIs your password rubb!$h?
With the COVID-19 pandemic isolation, we are spending more time online than ever. Our login data is an enormous buffet for hackers but while we are all sitting at our keyboards, now is a perfect time to ramp up our security
Read MoreZOOM is the weakest link
Video conference platform, Zoom, has serious security weaknesses. Our advice is unequivocal; do not use Zoom in your web browser, do not install the app. Have no contact with the platform at all
Read MoreHow to think like an artist
Simply drag and drop to build your own website to get that minimal design featured on thousands of other websites to make sure you don’t stand out from the crowd
Read MoreMagazine typography for websites
Once upon a time, there was no Cascading Style Sheets and just half-a-dozen, dull ‘web-safe’ fonts. Now we have pseudo-selectors and font hosting as the web’s typography catches up with the Middle Ages…
Read MorePhotoshop stealth mode, leave no trace
Faking photos has been around for a long time, Photoshop is just a newer way of doing it. The trick remains the same, though; conceal your working
Read MoreKeep your bulk email out of the SPAM box
If you use a mailing list to promote a business enterprise, no matter how modest, then you need to comply with the GDPR law and best practice protocols or you’ll end up branded a SPAMMER
Read MoreAlways judge a book by its cover
Why do we judge books by their covers? Because quick decisions based on simple, visual clues are right more often than they are wrong and there’s good reason for that, and that is very handy for graphic designers
Read MoreTake that look off your Facebook
You might think that posting content to your project’s Facebook page is sharing your content with the world but it turns out, Facebook might actually be quite secretive with your content
Read MoreWatch your language!
The primary means of communication of the world wide web is the written word and it is there where many professional websites fall short. How you use language makes a big impression
Read MoreFacebook breach: your personal data compromised
Facebook just got hacked on a gargantuan scale and for many users, the implications go far beyond changing their Facebook password. What is the impact on your digital data security?
Read MoreThe need for speed
Without doubt, this is Graphic Violence’s fastest project – logo designs and stickers for race cars
Read MoreVodafone blocks Jetpack / WordPress images
Vodafone does not trust the Wordpress / Jetpack servers and its firewall settings are blocking images. If you use Jetpack in your websites, you’ll need to check the visibility of your images
Read MorePutting on a show in Derby
We love the theatre and posters and programmes for Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company are always a pleasure to work on
Read MoreCreate a strong p******* and remember it
Our memories are vast databases and we are quite capable of remembering incredible amounts of information and detail. Remembering one strong password should be a doddle and, indeed, it is when you do it right…
Read MoreCheck to see if your email’s been hacked
Database breaches are happening right now, and your email could be in there. Do a quick check to see if your email has been compromised and what actions you can take to improve its security
Read MoreStrong security with password managers
If you are not using strong and unique passwords for your online security, you know that and you don’t need a lecture but you do need a password manager
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