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Work: The Teapot Club goes Live

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

The Teapot Club is a wonderful little jewellery company started by my good friends Sidonie and Amy. The have been working hard to create some beautiful pieces, all fashioned from flea market findings and given a charming tea party twist. I was delighted to be involved and relished to opportunity to really have a play with the design and to help get things launched.

I designed the site starting with all the hand drawn components and typeface, producing the words in Photoshop then graduating through to the HTML and CSS along with a rather heavy but fun use of images. The site runs on the light weight Chyrp CMS by Alex Suraci and was really fun to play around with, Aron even kindly wrote a Product module for it. The .twig language made for easy modifying and as whole I would happily recommend it. Sadly Chyrp’s development stared to slow and what was a vastly underrated CMS platform ceased development some time in June. A real shame indeed.

But anyway, go check out THE TEAPOT CLUB, they have some very nice stuff for sale and beautiful photography to boot.

Why We Fail and What to do About It

Friday, April 30th, 2010

An interesting and thought tickling talk by Scott Berkun taken from the “From Business to Buttons” Conference. Talking about failure can be a sore point but it is often the most effective way for one to learn there lessons, and do so for free. Many industries or services have developed a practice to cope with failures but a skill like design it is often kept hush, the irony being design it’s self is a process of failure.

Yay: Last.fm 20,000

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

I finally broke the 20,000 plays on Last.fm which makes me happy.

And the guilty track was: Too Drunk To Dream by The Magnetic Fields, good stuff.

Hello world! Meet Blog!

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

God Damn! we are up and running, thats right I’v spent too long with the this site and now concider it personal company.