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A few months ago, I took the step to learn an entirely new discipline. This was for a number of reasons; the main one being that I don’t know what a retired website designer or developer looks like.
As this industry is so new, I can’t look at who came before and see how their journey panned out over a lifetime of doing what they did. Sure, we have famous graphic designers and branding agency heads to look at, but the Web… that wasn’t around back...

Hey all, just a quick one to say I’ve just posted a new project in the portfolio for Fearne’s Cakes, Treats & Healthy Eats, which was a really fun branding and print based project I recently did for a new bakery business based in West Yorkshire.
For those who don’t know, Fearne is actually my wife so this project had all of the hazard’s of not only being a tough, branding project with a tight deadline but to also do it for your better half brings it’s own pressures (and sometimes arguments!...

It’s been six months since I wrote the blog post announcing I was leaving my full-time role and stepping out in to the scary world of being a freelancer and it’s absolutely flown by.
Technically, I’ve only been doing day-to-day freelance for three of those six months due to a lengthy notice period at my last job, but that period did generate contacts and freelance work for me, gave me time to setup my accounting, put this new website...

I’m proud to announce that another project I designed quite a while back has finally gone live!
This project is called Serpent Dash! and it’s an homage to retro games that enables you to play the classic mobile game Snake… but on Google Maps!
Play on the roads of your local town, your favourite city or somewhere even more exotic; simply enter the address of where you want to play and watch as it converts the roads into a playable route for Snake....