http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog A dangerous mind is a wonderful thing to possess Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:35:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I enjoyed creating this jack in the box illustration to promote the soon to go live redesign of Superbreak.com. I intended to have a strapline below saying 'surprise... we have redesigned... blah blah'. Adapted to included a textured background for this blog post. I enjoyed creating the sketchy style in ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/jack-in-the-box-illustration/ I just used this excellent plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/newsletter/ On my friend's website - David Kupelian. It's fantastic. Was really easy to install, basically just putting in the plugin directory and then a few configuration things in the wordpress control panel such as sender's name etc. Then all you have to do to create the ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/newsletter-subscription-and-email-sender-plugin-for-wordpress/ Haven gotten addicted to 99designs.com, I couldn't help but have a peak to what contests were going. I thought I may as well put in an hour or two coming up with this design. Click the thumbnail to have a look: Unfortunately there's a couple of designs rated higher than mine so ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/winchester-decks/ I've just entered a design showdown to redesign: http://www.aqa.63336.com/. With only a couple of days left there's already been over 80 design entries from around 20 designers. Unfortunately everyone had already covered the commercial, clean, generic design style so I had to try and think of something a bit different otherwise they'd ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/entry-to-63336-design-competition/ I design this site a couple of years ago for a friend and he's finally wanted me to put it live. Being a while since I designed it, the site is a bit different to my current style, if I designed it now it would be quite different - probably ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/new-website-for-solo-artist/ 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/