We are thrilled with Jason’s fabulous design work. He understood what we wanted and offered us creative ideas which helped to move our thinking forward. He was thoroughly great to work with – professional and personable. We would unconditionally recommend him to anyone.
Foresite SPA ‘Life After CRM’ White paper
Project Details
Foresite SPA is a web based sales performance application. It provides strategic management of the business drivers and process inputs that impact sales. Incorporating BPM and Relationship Management for organisations with ambitious sales plans.
Foresite have recently published a new white paper and the design had to have the WOW factor. I created a look that is relevant, has impact and can be rolled out in style across other similar publications that will be produced in the future.
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For more information on my services or to discuss your project, please contact me
on +44 (0) 1604 720 748. Alternatively fill out my contact form and I’ll be in touch.
Friars School Logo Design
Project Details
Friars School are a school for 11 – 16 year old pupils with special educational needs based in Northamptonshire. They have recently been made a specialist sports college and hired me to design their new logo to reflect this change.
Key objectives for this project were that the new logo should look classic and established as well as showing what areas the school excels in. The new logo now has a very classic, very distinguished look, which perfectly communicates the schools key values. The icons in the crest show the school’s key areas of expertise.
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For more information on my services or to discuss your project, please contact me
on +44 (0) 1604 720 748. Alternatively fill out my contact form and I’ll be in touch.
How to do almost anything online in 2010
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I found this amazing resource this morning from mashable.com. They have been building a vast archive of How-To guides on everything from professional networking to planning a vacation online, and they are listed for you to browse right here.
If you’re looking to improve your life in 2010, you can bet there is something you will find useful in their 40+ How-To guides.
Merry Christmas and a Big Thank You…
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Well the year is nearly over and it has been a great one.
I would like to wish you all a very Merry Xmas and a prosperous New Year. I would especially like to thank all of my clients for their support during my first year of ‘going it alone’. I look forward to the many exciting challenges that lay ahead in 2010.
Merry Xmas!
The Grange School Promotional DVD
Project Details
Hot off the press is a promotional DVD I produced for The Grange School in Daventry, Northamptonshire. The DVD is part of a welcome pack, which I am eagerly awaiting from the printers. Stay tuned for updates…
Contact me
For more information on my services or to discuss your project, please contact me
on +44 (0) 1604 720 748. Alternatively fill out my contact form and I’ll be in touch.
60+ Great links for designers and developers
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10 Colourful Leather Textures Free to Use
Leather textures are useful for making 2D and 3D renditions. For example you can use a leather in creating a realistic model or design for a bag or jacket.
60+ Creative And Mind-blowing Examples Of Photo Manipulation Art
Photo manipulation is an image editing technique that alters the original photo by adding certain elements. These creative photo manipulation examples will serve as your design inspiration.
Broken link check on steroids.
Check site for broken links, analyze website topology, find biggest pages and more.
3 slideshow jQuery plugin
JQuery is getting popular day by day, more and more web developers are coming out with new and creative ideas every day.
How Well Do You Understand CSS Positioning?
The css position property seems easy to grasp, but it works a little differently than it appears on the surface.
Twitter Trackbacks Widget – A jQuery Plugin
Highly customizable Twitter trackbacks widget to integrate tweets that mention your post into your blog. Each tweet comes with reply & retweet links to get more readers engaged in the conversation.
T-shirt Design: 50+ Awesome Examples
If you’re like me, you love your tees. It’s all about the comfort and casual style when it comes to the hip t-shirt designs that are out there today.
Making your own social blog network By Using Wordpress MU
A blog network is all well and good, but how will your users find each other? How will they talk to each other? Building a sense of community is important if you want your site to succeed.
Crumpled Paper Icons Social Media Logos
This crumpled paper icons social media logos set includes the most popular social bookmarking and networking icons
The element wood in web sites – 33 examples
Mostly, the wood is used for background in web design on the whole page, but sometimes you find it either in the header or the center part of the site or even in the footer.
BrowserSeal – fast multi browser screenshots
BrowserSeal allows you to capture an image of your web site under multiple browsers with a single click of a mouse.
Creative Nerds
As a freelance designer relying on one source of income can be a very risky decision these are some tips on how each month you can make a passive income from a career within freelance designing.
Creating an Animated Cube Revolving on its Axis
This is a simple tutorial that will teach you how to create an animated cube revolving on its axis. To replicate the steps described above you will need Adobe Flash CS4.
A CSS3 Lightbox Gallery With jQuery
In this tutorial, we are going to create an awesome image gallery with CSS3 & jQuery. It will scan a folder of images on your web server and build a complete drag and drop lighbox gallery around it.
designi1
Its a color and happy time. For us, designers, its time to start drawing and redesigning all our branding. Hope you get full inspired in the end of this post.
Ten Free Wordpress Plugins That You Should Install
The final part of beginner’s series on using WordPress that highlights ten of the most popular plugins currently available.
TimeTracker: The Perfect Time Tracking Tool for Freelancers. Review and Giveaway!
TimeTracker helps you tracking how much time you spend on tasks.
Creating an Animated Cube Revolving on its Axis
This is a simple tutorial that will teach you how to create an animated cube revolving on its axis. To replicate the steps described above you will need Adobe Flash CS4.
Logo Design RoundUp Part 12 – How Designers Brand Themselves
Part 12 of the Logo Design Round-Up series. This ongoing series showcases a collection of logos, self submitted by freelance designers and creative folk.
Project Management and collaboration tool
A great project management and collaboration tool that we are using in our team. Very agile, the best part is customization, you can switch on and off what you need, superb file management
My Photography Favourites: Ric Coles
Richard Coles in a Multi-disciplined photographer, programmer and guitarist. Here I am going to look at a few of his great photography skills which are showcased on his Flickr profile.
25 Free Online Tools for Web Designers, Developers, Freelancers and Individuals
25 online tools which are implicitly made to make the life of the busiest community i.e. web designers hassle free. They are not only free to use but many of them do not even require registration.
80 Stunning List of Free Photos and Free Textures by PhotoVaco
PhotoVaco.com provide free stock photos with high resolution for both personal and commercial projects. You can use our free photos in websites, video, TV production, forum, blogs, school projects..
35 Awesome Photoshop Actions that Enhance Your Work
Photoshop actions can be very powerful and great time saver because it automates a multi-step process to get the desired results. In the blink of an eye you can achieve professional effects.
How to make a website: the nature of Web Design
Understanding the nature of web design is necessary for anyone who wants to be a good web designer. But, what is web design?
Ultimate List of Free Twitter Icons for Web Designers
As a template designer, finding an appropriate icon that fits your designed template can be sometimes time-consuming. the most practical free twitter icons
36 Impressing Examples of Reflection on the Puddle
Raining day, ya it’s raining again. But there are interesting things after that. Let’s go out and watch your step, look for puddles get interesting reflections.
26 Coffee Company Logos
A collection of inspiring coffee company logos
Some Grunge Resources For Your Website
As Web 2.0 style passes way, it’s time for something new. Web 2.0 style is all about glossy and shiny look, another option would be something crude, radical and provoking. Such as the grunge style
1100+ Abstract High Quality Free Photoshop Brushes
According to our design needs in both category web and graphic designing we mostly prefer some additional tricks as we talking about Adobe Photoshop Brushes, thousands of incredible Photoshop brush..
Weekly Inspiration No. 04
Again we collected some examples for great design and wonderful artwork. Espacially for those who are interested in creative product design this blog should be very inspiring
25 Web Layout Tutorials
Almost every webdesigner has followed some web layout tutorials. So i decided to create a list of 25 tutorials to help you train and create some beautifull web templates.
Free Custom Twitter Backgrounds for Photographers on Thanksgiving!
Ready Photo Site is going to have a very special Thanksgiving day. They will design free custom twitter background themes for 10 photographers!
Overview of CMSs suitable for launching a microblogging
Microblogging, which was just a gimmick not that long ago, has become a practical tool for daily use, an integral part of many people’s lives. As in case of social networks, there is a single leader
Escape Visual Clutter, Treat Yourself With Cleanest Icons and Pictograms: Free Download
Over 100 icons and pictograms in vector formats, free to download: just a starting fraction of Pictoico visual initiative. Communicate better: visual way. Learn how, download free!
Look Like Apple, Part 1: Brushed Aluminum
An easy tutorial on creating a brushed aluminum look in Photoshop that mimics Apple’s high end laptop line
How to Become a More Efficient Freelancer
Having trouble getting things done? Falling behind on deadlines? Here are some tips.
40 Beautiful Dark Website Designs
Today we are going to showcase 40 beautiful dark website designs. We’ve previously wrote about dark minimalist designs & dark website designs so we’re no strangers to killer dark website designs.
How to Create a Christmas card in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how a Christmas card can be designed with Photoshop. You will learn, how to create Christmas ball, draw snowflakes, customize brushes etc. Let’s get started!
Inspiration Reloaded! – 44 Best Twitter Background Themes
Inspiration reloaded: 44 Great twitter background themes.
Got Wood? 69 Wonderful Wooden Websites
Using natural textures like wood grain is a great way to add an organic feel to a website design. Here’s a showcase of websites with wooden elements.
Seven Points To Consider When Choosing A New Wordpress Theme
The sixth part of a beginners guide to Wordpress that focuses on choosing a new theme for your site.
Best Websites to Submit Design News
So you have launched your brand new Design Blog with wonderful articles, but you need a way to get it off the ground. One method of increasing traffic to your blog is to s…
Best Websites to Promote Christian Blogs
Setting up your blog and getting your articles published online is the easy part…
20 Amazing Artworks for Inspiration
In this collection you will find 20 Stunning Examples of Artworks. All creations collected from Flickr.
Create a fumed text effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial I`ll show you how to design a fumed text in Photoshop,using some brushes and some blending techniques.
5 Essential Books For Running A Successful Freelance Design Business
Christmas approaches as does the end of the year, below are 5 great gifts you can get yourself. These are books that I have personally read, so they definitely are receiving my full recommendation.
How to Skyrocket Your Earnings as a Freelancer
Want to learn how to boost your monthly earnings as a freelancer to the next level? Read on.
30 Must Have WebDesign Books In Your Christmas Wishlist
In this article you’ll find books teaching you how to create great websites, get ideas, learn CSS,HTML, usability, typography! Check for yourself!
6 surefire ways to improve your online surveys
Online surveys are quick and easy to put together and heres 6 mistakes you should avoid. The better your survey is, the easier it is for people to finish and the better and more accurate your results.
7 Stripe Generators That You Can Use Online
If you need a background image with stripes, and you need it quickly, there is probably no better and faster way to make it than to use one of those stripe generators.
50 Inspiring Football Wallpaper Designs
These wallpapers are great sources for inspiration not only for football or sports related projects, but for any type of project which is why I decided to create this list and share these
2009 Best Web Banners Design (468X60)
Dream, Believe and Be Inspire for 2009 Best Web Banners Design Collections.
Exceptional Sports Logos Part 2: College Teams
As I have written before in Part 1 of my Exceptional Sports Logo Post, logos are what represent your company, product, business, or even yourself to the world.
Christmas Special – Free Social Networking Icons – 1
Christmas Special, free social networking icons, an early christmas gift for all chethstudios readers.
The other side of criticism – you can make it useful
We all are very familiar with criticism. We hear it almost everyday from clients…
10 Free Electronical Textures
It is Texture Sunday again. This time i created 10 Free Electronical Textures that you can download for free. You can use them for free for personal and commercial use.
40 Free Amazing jQuery Plugins and Tutorials With Demos
jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML. It was released in January 2006 at BarCampJohn Resig
34 cheat sheets for web designers and developers
A cheat sheet is a printable guide of a particular programming language, software or framework.
Top 5 Design and Marketing Sites
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I thought I would share my top 5 sites I use for design/marketing news and inspiration.
What are your favourite sites?
Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine is an online magazine and blog dedicated to all things design. The frequently updated site covers everything from lists of inspirational design to HTML tutorials.
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Mashable
Founded in July 2005, Mashable is the world’s largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Networking news. With more than 5 million monthly page views, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what’s new on the web.
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Logo Design Love
Logo Design Love is a website devoted to logos. Launched in January 2008, this blog is regularly updated with news, features, and opinions from the world of brand identity.
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Marketing Donut
Small business marketing – free advice, tools and resources. A fantastic resource that has some really useful content.
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Grain Edit
Grain edit is focused on classic design work from the 1950s-1970s and contemporary designers that draw inspiration from that time period. This is probably my most visited site at the moment. The work featured is truly beautiful and well worth bookmarking.
Kings Heath Primary School Brand Identity
Project Details
Phase One of the re-branding of Kings Heath Primary School in Northampton is now complete. The logo has just been launched with several other exciting areas of the brand identity, including uniforms, handbooks, signage, prospectus and website to be completed over the next few months.
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For more information on my services or to discuss your project, please contact me
on +44 (0) 1604 720 748. Alternatively fill out my contact form and I’ll be in touch.
Photofunia
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My other half stumbled across this website today. Great fun and really draws you in. Easily put an image of yourself in a variety of scenarios.
I wonder if this could be used in a B2C or B2B online environment? Maybe it could be used as featured for a museum as a form of interactivity between the user and themselves.
If you want to have a go for yourself, the website can be found here.
New camera for work – Lumix Lx3
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I thought it was about time that I got myself a half decent camera to use for work. I didn’t want to lug around an SLR, so I needed a high end compact.
I decided on the Lumix Lx3. It looks cool, is compact with some great retro styling and allows me to take some great shots with very little effort. Very pleased so far and would highly recommend to anyone that wants a really decent compact.
Vintage Graphic Design
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If, like me, you love this style of graphics, here is a link to some wonderful vintage design that I found recently. Great designs from Wim Crouwel to Knoll.
Top 5 Graphic Design Books You Must Own
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What makes you buy a design book? For inspiration? To learn new skills? There are an amazing array of design books out there, but here is my all time top 5 recommendations. What are yours?
How to Be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul
by Adrian Shaughnessy
Everything you need to know to survive as a graphic designer from AS, Ex-Intro.
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It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be
by Paul Arden
Bite-sized inspiration by the late and great PA. Not just for creatives.
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Logo
by Michael Evamy
Great collection of logos with lots of new but also many historically relevant.
Best part: the logos are all pure black and white.
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A Smile In The Mind
by Beryl McAlhone and David Stuart
This book explores witty thinking, looking at clever ideas rather than funny drawing,
and gathering together the best examples of graphic wit since the 1960s. Work is
included from more than 300 designers in the US, Britain, Europe and Japan.
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The Art Of Looking Sideways
by Alan Fletcher
An inspired, eye-opening, colorful explosion of a book about the world and
everything that is in it. It deserves to be treated as an immediate classic.
A Smile in the Mind: Witty Thinking in Graphic Design
Website Grader
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Want to know how to get your Website high up in natural search results, but don’t want to pay a search engine optimization (SEO) firm just to find out what you are doing wrong? Now you can get a free, automated evaluation of your site on Website Grader. Just type in your Website address, and it will spit out a report detailing what you can do to boost your site’s SEO juice. It even gives you a grade. I’m at 67 – must try harder!
School Brand Identity
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I have just been told that I have been appointed to brand another local school in Northampton. Work will include new logo, website and print materials. The official launch will be at the start of a new school year in September.
I’m really delighted at this news. It’s actually rather topical that state schools value their brand as the BBC ran a story recently about a surge in state school places.
Alan Keys
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Simple idea, excellently executed. I love a good pun, especially when it’s done as well as this! The designer is a guy called Pete Dungey. See more of his work here.
Welcome to the Identity Website v.2!
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Hello and welcome to a new incarnation of my website. This new version adds a blog so I can keep you updated on what I’m up to, as well as links to my other spaces on the world wide interweb.
I’d love to hear your comments and hopefully you will get involved in my discussions on the blog.
