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 MorePunk’s not dead…
Animation 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 MoreFind your type online: magazine 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: 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
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