A potted autobiography
Parping wheezily on one's own trumpet
Hello. I'm a designer. I also do plenty of writing and speaking. I'm based in Nottingham, England, but my work often takes me to all sorts of other fine places.
I'm a partner at Fictive Kin, collaborating on ambitious web projects and tinkering with bold new stuff. Sometimes I contribute to web design publications[1], and I speak about the design process at conferences. I also organise the annual New Adventures events[2].
Back in 2006 I co-founded Erskine Design[3], .net magazine's Agency Of The Year runner-up 2009. Shortly after, I moved on in search of fresh challenges.
Prior to designing websites, I went to art school and later worked as a visual artist in London and Iceland. Subsequently, I founded an independent arts organisation and festival[4]. I learned my trade as an employed designer/developer from 2002 to 2006[5] working on numerous significant web projects.[6]
This website was born in 2003, and this design is version four, or thereabouts. You can read more about this design if you wish.
Selected Books * denotes co-author
- 2011: The Manual *
- 2010: The 24 Ways Annual *
- 2009: CSS Mastery (Second Edition) *
- 2007: Web Standards Creativity *
- 2006: Beginning CSS Web Development
- 2005: Blog Design Solutions *
Presentations, workshops, events
Forthcoming
Selected previous
- 2013: MK Geek Night, UK (audio)
- 2013: New Adventures in Web Design, Nottingham, UK
- 2012: Ready to Inspire, Leiden, Netherlands (slides / video)
- 2012: Creative Mornings Benefit, New York, USA (slides / video)
- 2012: AIGA Design Camp, Nisswa, Minnesota, USA (slides)
- 2012: Refresh LX, Lisbon, Portugal (slides)
- 2012: Reasons To Be Creative, Brighton, UK
- 2012: Refresh Edinburgh, Scotland (slides)
- 2012: Interlink, Vancouver, Canada
- 2012: ESAD web talks, Porto, Portugal
- 2012: Webshaped, Helsinki, Finland (video)
- 2012: An Event Apart, Seattle, USA
- 2012: Ímark, Reykjavík, Iceland (slides)
- 2012: New Adventures in Web Design, Nottingham
- 2011: Beyond Tellerrand, Düsseldorf, Germany (video / slides)
- 2011: Build, Belfast, Northern Ireland (slides / video)
- 2011: Frontend, Oslo, Norway (video / slides)
- 2011: Edge of the Web, Perth, Australia (slides)
- 2011: Insites Tour, Manchester
- 2011: Interlink, Vancouver, Canada (slides)
- 2011: 10th Icelandic Web Awards, Reykjavik, Iceland
- 2011: New Adventures in Web Design, Nottingham
- 2010: HD Live, Hull (video / slides)
- 2010: Brooklyn Beta, New York, USA
- 2010: Sneak Preview, Genk, Belgium (slides)
- 2010: dConstruct, Brighton
- 2010: Business of Web Design (slides)
- 2010: EECI2010 Conference, San Francisco, USA (video / slides)
- 2010: Future Of Web Design, London (slides)
- 2010: DIBI (Design It, Build It), Gateshead (video / slides)
- 2010: Speak The Web, Liverpool (slides)
- 2009: EECI2009 Conference, Netherlands (video / slides)
- 2009: Future of Web Design tour, Leeds (slides / slides)
- 2009: @Media, London (slides)
- 2009: Future Of Web Apps Tour, Leeds (slides)
- 2007: @Media, London (slides)
Selected Interviews
- 2013: Happy Monday Podcast
- 2013: .net interview (web transcript)
- 2012: Interview for .net about New Adventures
- 2012: An Event Apart Speaker Spotlight
- 2011: Interview for ExpressionEngine (with Marcus Neto)
- 2011: One Minute With (with Conor O'Driscoll)
- 2010: The Pipeline with Dan Benjamin (33 min audio)
- 2010: .Net magazine - Q&A feature
- 2010: A Dozen Questions for Mr Collison (from the Standardistas)
- 2009: Video interview for Ryan Taylor
- 2009: Boagworld podcast interview
- 2009: .Net magazine - profile and interview
- 2008: EE interview (about the EE 2.0 default site)
- 2008: .Net magazine - Interview (about EE and CMS stuff)
- 2007: ExpressionEngine interview (about Frieze)
- 2007: .Net magazine interview (440kb scan)
- 2007: Digital Web Magazine interview
- 2006: Web Designer magazine (165kb scan)
- 2006: .Net magazine - Best of British (138kb scan)
Selected Articles
- 2011: 24 Ways: Taming Complexity
- 2010: 24 Ways: The Articulate Web Designer of Tomorrow
- 2009: A List Apart: Erskine Redesign
Footnotes
- ↑ Published by Apress and Friends of ED (USA) and Five Simple Steps (UK)
- ↑ New Adventures won Event Of The Year award at the 2011 Critters, which is pretty nice.
- ↑ Clients included the government, major publishers, polar explorers, software companies, and many more.
- ↑ You Are Here Visual Arts, and You Are Here Festival.
- ↑ Agenzia Ltd, Nottingham UK. Love, always.
- ↑ Universal, Poptones, The Libertines, The Beta Band, Jon Burgerman, Lucy Orta to name a few.
External References
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