Branding and identity design has its universal challenges and those challenges are a little bit trickier when it comes to designing identity for an individual rather than a relatively faceless organisation. These considerations went into my recent logo design for a consultant, and as time has passed since and contact information had to be updated, [...]

Logo design often involves a very fine balance between being visually arresting and blending into all the material that inevitably surrounds it. This balance becomes even trickier when the logo is for a person and not an organisation. If the individual is in a very visual line of work, the choices are less complicated but [...]

Teaching is hard work. It’s not necessarily hard work in the physical sense, but the mental gymnastics required to teach something complex involves more understanding and effort than most human beings are willing to put in. Which is why there are so few truly good teachers in the World. Part of the problem is students [...]

A web portfolio, or more accurately an HTML portfolio, is a very versatile beast. Of the various formats you could choose to create your digital portfolio, it is one of the most flexible ways to present your visual work. A stumbling block most face when considering a web portfolio is that they are unfamiliar with [...]

People have been paying me to design things for over a decade now. During the first few years of this adventure, I visited clients with my printed portfolio in hand, my book, as the people in advertising would call it. As design work diversified beyond print, and computers and the internet became ubiquitous in every [...]