http://somhairle.co.uk graphic design and illustration Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:20:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So in a bit of a change of direction I've started to write articles for Creative Boom. It's an online magazine centred around the creative industries. Go check out my first post here. I've also been beavering writing a few posts, taking photos and making videos for adventure blog high-8. I ... http://somhairle.co.uk/?p=1066 Is this the year of Typography on the web? I certainly hope so. It would be nice to use more than 12 of the 1000's of font's I own. Fontdeck promises to host licensed and (mostly) free to use fonts that can be included in your site. Sounds good hopefully ... http://somhairle.co.uk/?p=1048 [gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="4" orderby="rand"] My daughter who's 3 has been getting quite good at painting and drawing. Her pre-conceptions of form, colour and technique are so unbridled she has an ability to simply create. The results are quite a revelation, the lack of schooling or influence means she can simply ... http://somhairle.co.uk/?p=1046 So I installed Microsofts Internet Explorer 8, thought I should check out what challenges it will provide in designing web sites. They are varied and perhaps even more complicated than before. Although the browser has greater .css support (although not comprehensive) it throws up further obstacles through it's convoluted compatibility ... http://somhairle.co.uk/?p=1034 So the bleak mid-winter is upon us today  @ 17:47. The snow has arrived right on cue, the kids are hyper and we're all short on vitamin D. The schmO has had a fine year, churning out some great work, getting into magazines (print and web), selling some art and ... http://somhairle.co.uk/?p=1017 So a welcome return to Flash for me with this one http://www.treacherousorchestra.com. It's great that the band decided to buck the trend for super useable, standardised web design. This site will not win any awards for use-ability with buttons along the bottom, confusing but authentic d-pad media player and vast ... http://somhairle.co.uk/?p=1005 Another wordpress site here for Nuala Dalton and Irish singer songwriter based in Newcastle. The site follows on from the graphical concept for her debut album which should be ready to buy in January. The site uses a custom home page which has the ability to include a jquery carousel, ... http://somhairle.co.uk/?p=999 This is logo for changin scotland a meeting of minds held bi-annually at the Ceilidh Place in Ullapool. It is a political, artistic and social forum with lectures and discussions on all that is modern Scotland. The website is up @ http://www.changinscotland.co.uk. The site is a simple, typographically based and ... http://somhairle.co.uk/?p=995 [gallery link="file" columns="4"] I had noticed some hits coming from a conspicuous forwarding link from imagine publishing. I headed over to their site, ah! 'web designer magazine' I had sent them an email when i launched the schmo v4. I have to say I had a wee fright when i saw ... http://somhairle.co.uk/?p=981 [gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="4" orderby="rand"] I've been getting back into photography, due mostly to the high-8 blog and the inspiration of the other photos up there. For ages I was bored of taking photos of my experiences and not experiencing the experience without an lcd screen in the way (does that ... http://somhairle.co.uk/?p=945