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Adrian Storey is a freelance video producer, cameraman, editor, animator, photographer, Wordpress developer and recovering ex-pat who recently returned to the UK after a 30 year absence, the last 10 of which were spent in Tokyo.
Sandra is a multilingual graphic designer, born in Germany and now based in Kent. When she's not at her desk you can find her wandering the coast with her nosey Border Collie or drawing from life in Deal’s Astor theatre. She's a lover of coffee and colour and a passionate photographer of random beauty.
Kate is a brand and graphic designer who also makes art. She's a lover of colour, plants and cats who lives and works up in Manchester. When she’s not doing her day job, she’s either making artwork for prints and textiles or updating her home with random DIY projects.
Carli is our designer and illustrator with an MA from Cambridge School of Art, a BA in Graphic Communication and a fearless creative attitude. She loves to experiment with bold colour palettes and her favourite part of the design process is the ideas stage; allowing herself time to play and really experiment.
Slade Design founder and namesake, cycling enthusiast, Alan Fletcher super fan, philanthropist and current Mayor of St Neots - Richard is all of this rolled into one. A man of many talents. Here's a little interview.
Whether you like or not, email is going to be with us for a while longer and for a lot of organisations it is their preferred method of communication. Unfortunately, as most of us know, it's not the most efficient, intuitive or spontaneous platform. Here are some handy tips so you can get to a zero-inbox.
404 error
The devil is in the detail refers to an idiom to a catch or find a mysterious element hidden in the details. For me, this detail is the crafting of a website that goes beyond just its design.
I was asked recently for some advice on how to migrate a domain. A migration is effectively taking all the files that display your website in a browser and moving them from one place to another. But sometimes to move a domain you need to understand what each bit of the address does.
build website
I get asked this question from time-to-time, most recently by a student studying games development. Here is my quick ready reckoner that I produced which covers the basics types of systems, the complexity and rough cost.
morse code
A trip to Milton Keynes Museum and discovered a display about telephony where they had a clever Morse Code handout that I couldn't resist tweaking.
website width
A fellow graphic designer recently asked for some advice. They wanted to know what width to design a website to then be handed to the developer to build from.
top wordpress plugins
What better way to celebrate my lifelong love and affinity with typography than dedicating an entire year posting one of my favourite fonts each Monday morning on Twitter.
top wordpress plugins
I've been building websites since 1998 — with various legacy systems, dead and buried software and a few that survive. I'm sharing some of my experience and recommending my top five Wordpress plugins.
top wordpress plugins
That's what the dictionary defines as a ligature. I know the term for a very different use and if you've never heard of them before, to a type designer they are a key part of building a typeface.