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The story of how I created a hugely popular meme website and then failed (fail being the operative word throughout this article) to make any money from it. Warning: also includes...
It's Sunday night and it has just gone 11.01pm, which means I have less than an hour to write my 1,000 words for the day. (Reminder: you can view my...
School → University → Job → Mortgage → Marriage → Bigger mortgage → Kids → Work like a bitch until you are old and grey → Retirement If you were willing to follow the signposts which had been...
1. Look outside of graphic design for inspiration. Using the likes of Siteinspire, Designspiration and Dribbble is fine and dandy if it's just for 'reference'. But if you start reproducing...
I’m becoming increasingly tired of girls’ online dating profiles quoting the “Here’s to the crazy ones” passage from Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Seriously ladies, you need to dig a...
This thought and smile provoking TEDx talk is by a woman called Kathleen Taylor who (after spending twenty years working as a counselor and community engagement facilitator for the dying) realised...
If you think I'm going to answer the question above, I'm afraid that you've got the wrong blog. However — on a similar note — earlier today someone send me...
First things first: I’m in a hurry to get this article online before the concept of “storydoing” gets picked up by marketeers and bludgeoned to within an inch of its...
Whilst I'm still dead set on quitting being a graphic designer, I'm still extremely grateful for having an in-demand skill set that I can fall back on when money gets...
That thing you wake up in the morning thinking about. That thing you keep waking up in the middle of the night thinking about too. That thing you always have...