In 2025, WordPress continues to be one of the most popular website platforms, powering over 40% of all websites. Whether you’re running a personal blog, an eCommerce site, or a business homepage, WordPress offers the flexibility and tools to make your site shine. However, like any major platform, WordPress sites are a target for hackers …
When the boss lets me loose on this blog I get all sorts of ideas because there’s so many subjects we could look at. That’s how broad and fascinating graphic design is, and how it touches so many lives. But we need to narrow things down a bit, so I eventually decided to shine some …
AI gets a lot of hype. It’s often touted as a miracle option in a lot of those slightly click-baity online publications. The reality is really a lot more complicated.
It turns out some of the first business cards can be traced back to the 1400’s in China. Apparently, some of the more important types would carry around a ‘visitor card’ to explain why that individual was so ‘important’ and why others needed to remember them.
Back in early summer we had the pleasure of going the Federation of Small Business (FSB) to discuss, in an FSB roundtable, the challenges facing the creative industry in Wales. There were a range of companies joining us, covering a wide breadth of disciplines within the creative field. Apart from the deeply interesting challenges facing …
So, imagine there’s a baby and some bathwater. It appears that Jaguar is intent on throwing both of them out—along with the bath itself, the soft and fluffy towels, and the Sudocrem. It’s all gone. That’s of course entirely up to them, but wow, they’ve really gone for it. Before I get too far into …
PayPal have recently redesigned their logo. I don’t think their old logo set the world on fire or anything with the design, but in a bid to move out of a generic colour space, have they not just placed themselves into another generic space?
We were approached by the FSB, after giving a talk on branding and giving some help on how to spot good design (and not so good design) at a smaller event, to join them at their next annual conference.
It’s been great to be back out meeting people face-to-face for client meetings since the great unpleasantness (which all seems a long time ago now). I think you can forget with the proliferation of Teams and Zoom, just how important it is for us to do that.
Brand development must be one of the most exciting projects both for a client and the designer. The responsibility to get it right, to interpret the brand’s personality, values and understand the market, the organisations goals, to ensure usability in different settings, and more is a challenge—an exciting and hugely rewarding one.