
After getting inspiration from the Smashing Magazine Wallpapers, I decided to create my own.

After getting inspiration from the Smashing Magazine Wallpapers, I decided to create my own.
I knew of this competition only a week or so ago, after a full page advert in the newspaper with a blank 50p.
I was immediately excited about the possibility of having a design made into an actual coin, and before visiting the site sketched out some ideas.
When I heard that Mark Boulton was releasing a book, called A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web I was immediately interested. However, it was originally only available as a PDF. Continue reading
A site I have recently done some design work on has been launched by Ollie Parsley this week. FootyTweets allow you to follow your favourite football team and get tweets of news and goal updates as they happen.
Ollie has also been working on a Rugby and Cricket version and I think there are plans for a Motorsport version too.
I thought the project was a really good idea, and so volunteered my services to produce a quick PhotoShop mockup and XHTML design, from which Ollie could base the sites on. I initially based the site around a 12 column grid design, with each team crest taking up column and used a template from the extremely useful 960.gs site.
