http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog A dangerous mind is a wonderful thing to possess Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:27:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently created a poster for The Novl Cuisine Challenge, an experimental project by Craig Burgess and Dave Pannell, where they have designed a poster a day for 365 days. Crazy crazy. I tried to do a slightly modernist illustration, using few colours and basic composition. I added texture via ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/guest-poster-on-the-novl-cuisine-challenge/ The endless page / infinite page technique is becoming an increasingly common design feature. For people who aren't familiar with what it is - it basically removes the need for paging or next / previous buttons on a page with a list of results. Instead of people needing to click ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/the-endless-infinite-page-usability-issues/ Here are a few tips for keeping your Photoshop files nice and tidy for web designs. Usually when designing I'm not overly tidy in keeping my layers nice and organised, and it's probably not a good thing to be too anal whilst in the haze of a creative explosion, ordering layers ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/organising-a-photoshop-file-for-web-design/ In response to a recent tweet by Elliot Jay and discussion with Craig Burgess, I felt I needed to air my views on what skills a web designer should possess. I think it goes without saying that a web designer first and foremost, should be able to design! This encompasses a ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/what-should-a-web-designer-know/ Probably one of the nicest accolades I've had: "My main area of focus is web design and I think that for 2010 we’re going to see more personalization in design. I think this will include seeing more hand drawn and collage elements and copywriting from a 1st person perspective. All things ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/lovely-accolade-design-trends-2010/ As the national express east line got taken over by the government's 'East Coast' they launched with a new logo and colour scheme but why does it look like something out of mid 20th century soviet Russia? http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/east-coast-branding/ Part of my daily Photoshop for Web Design tips. So you have your website design all ready to 'cut up' while you're doing the html/css and think "what is the best way of exporting the different parts of this design, I wish someone would tell me, please I just want to ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/photoshop-save-image-for-web-technique/ I have finally succomb to Twitter, almost like the moment I finally realised a mobile phone could be useful in the year 2000. But what do I twitter, pointless sh*t or useful pearls of wisdom from my years of web design experience and learnding. Atleast temporarily choose the latter and bestow unto ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/twitter-photoshop-web-design-tips/ It's only taken me a year and a half to get round to adding these but here they are: Christmas flash games The ski and particularly the snowball game were quite tricky to create but I was really happy with the results at the time. The idea was to help entice customers ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/christmas-flash-games-added/ I like it when I get on sites, it makes me feel warm inside, I then like to tell people about it, hence this post. Soon I will think of something better to write about, until then, all you have are my selfish, ego-feeding lists of sites that the binge ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/sites-the-binge-has-recently-managed-to-feature-on/