design

Beautiful things and how we make them.

how to write good copy

Friday, August 1st, 2008 by Rob

Keep it short and to the point.

The end

Okay so that was a little vague, but it serves a good point. People don’t read on the internet, they scan. We are so used to searching on google, clicking links and finding we end up in the wrong place, that we tend to scan the page first to make sure we’re in the right place. In addition, we also do this in newspapers. Scanning the headlines, maybe the first paragraph and quickly deciding if we want to read further.

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Free wine images

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 by Rob

We are offering you 2 free wine images.

You can use these in any visual way you please. Please value our rights however and NOT resell or distribute these images. Links back to this page are appreciated.

Enjoy!

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six free photo header images

Friday, July 18th, 2008 by Rob

We are offering you 6 free header images.

You can use these in any visual way you please. Please value our rights however and NOT resell or distribute these images. Links back to this page are appreciated.

Enjoy!

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Rob’s been published - again

Thursday, July 17th, 2008 by Guillaume

Rob has a photo published in August 08’s Practical Photography magazine.

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Don’t be afraid of whitespace

Monday, June 30th, 2008 by Rob

What is whitespace?

Often referred to as negative space, whitespace is nothingness. A void of content. Subsequently it doesn’t need to be white, just blank.

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Fotobook review

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 by Rob

I recently photographed a wedding. As part of the package I supplied a Photo Book. You know the ones… the photo albums that are printed directly on the pages and then bound, to produce an actual book. A great memento of the day and much more liable to survive the years.

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Illustrator for Web Design

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 by Rob

Adobe Photoshop has for years been the web designers tool of choice. Fireworks is the developers Photoshop. But Illustrator is my (and many others) web design application of choice.
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