Recognise anyone?!
We’ve been sworn to secrecy until now, so we’ve been bursting to tell you that we’ve been working on a very exciting project for NHS Blood and Transplant of late.
Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
In Search of the Perfect Product
Tuesday 21 July 2009…Well the perfect product module that is.
Myself and Rob have recently been rebuilding the backend of our CMS (Content Management System). We were finding that we were making lots of changes to the core files each time we wrote a site for a client, and since the big benefits of using a CMS for us is confidence in the integrity of the code (as we can run unit tests against the core files), as well as speed of writing a new site by using existing modules.
Therefore, we decided we needed to go back to the start and make each of the modules as generic as we possibly could to cope with every eventuality. For the most part this is proving fairly straight forward. For a news module for example you will want a title, the date it is published, and the story, whilst with a Frequently Asked Questions module you will want a question and an answer.
But the products module wasn’t so easy…
Banksy vs Bristol Museum
Tuesday 30 June 2009-
WARNING – Contains scenes of a childish nature some adults may find disappointing.
About 10 minutes into a queue that ended in a different postcode, it occurred to me that waiting patiently outside a museum in blazing midday sunshine was not a very ‘Banksy’* way to spend time. Not having seen the trailer or read the preview at that stage I wondered if this was really the best venue to showcase the work of Britain’s most infamous street artist?
Once inside (approx 30 mins later), I ‘got it’…over and over and over again!
Rubbish Design
Wednesday 24 June 2009
Our story begins in the salubrious surroundings of the shared bin store below my flat. (Not the greatest setting I know, but please bear with me!)
Now I’m never usually one to get wound up by residential issues, but lately I’ve been quite bothered by the fact that people keep putting green bags of recyclable waste into the silver wheely bins which are intended for ordinary black bags. So much so, that I’ve actually been moving green bags to their rightful receptacles myself.
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