In a previous article, I addressed the many advantages of using a web font (in place of images) to render icons into your UI design. In the same article I mentioned a frustrating deficit of high quality, free icon web fonts available for embedding and conceded my own failure at building one with Fontstruct (less Please read on...
Category Archives: Designs
Preface: I'm using this category to show off some logo's and other designs I've made. It's technically correct to write ‘logo's’ with the inverted comma when it is used as an abbreviation of ‘logotype’. I don't like it but I don't have much choice since ‘logos’ is a term relating to greek philosophy (and is contentious enough already) …
An Open Data Logo
I was recently asked to design a logo for the Open Data Cookbook; a marvellous organisation commited to helping us make use of all the open data (partcularly government data) that has become available. Their excellent wiki provides ‘recipes’ for sourcing, preparing, fusing and visualising data and is really worth a look. In the interest Please read on...
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London Book Fair
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m fascinated by sea life – especially crabs. I keep two pet hermit crabs called Ian and Phillip and I have written and designed a picture book called Crabs Are Odd. You’ve probably seen the little ad spot for it floating around on HeydonWorks but there’s more information – Please read on...
A Minute of Listening
I recently had the privilege of working on a project promoting listening skills amongst primary school children, conceived and curated by Sound & Music and called A Minute of Listening. The project required a desktop application (to be built by NeonTribe) that would be run by a teacher, in front of a class, which played Please read on...
