- An empty cup
- Why sitting with uncertainty can be a fruitful pastime.
- Boxed In
- Why designing in the browser may be holding you back.
- Zero for hire
- If you've come here looking for a guy pulling a ribbony-swirl of work, he's no longer working here.
- HiiDef Inc. Identity
- Any designer will tell you the hardest job you'll ever do is to design for yourself.
- Portfolio Building
- Preparing a good portfolio is hard work. Here's an email response I gave on building and presenting one.
- Ignorance Avoidance
- Well that was the title of an email I received last week. I thought I’d share it because I get a lot of emails asking this sort of stuff.
- Dynamic Columns
- I get a lot of emails asking how I output the comments in a column format. Here's how.
- Flat Shadows
- Another super-simple shadow trick in Photoshop for looking down on objects.
- Upright Shadows
- A nifty trick for shadows on upright objects that’s dead simple in Photoshop.
- The real Jim Shady
- Lately I’ve been getting pretty used to having my designs ripped. Doesn’t mean I dislike it any less.
- TweetDeck icons
- TweetDeck is a great application with a pretty average dock icon. This morning I decided I’d whip up an pair of alternatives.
- Get creative, you hack
- So you’re reading this thinking it may be slightly interesting. Maybe because the title seemed catchy, but not because this applies to you.
- MacUser Magazine
- So I just found out Digitalmash has been featured in last month’s MacUser ‘10 of the best online portfolios’. Huzzah!
- Swiss for WordPress
- Introducing a minimalist, image-free, grid-based theme for WordPress in three tasty flavours.
- Stepping into web design
- I get a lot of people on either sides of a university degree asking me advice on how to establish themselves in web design.
- .NET mag fame
- So the lovely folks at .NET magazine got in touch recently to ask if they could include Digitalmash.com in their gallery column.
- Design by numbers
- I have a confession to make. Like quite a few designers, I’ve got a sprinkling of OCD about me.
- Proper propaganda
- Well it’s that time of year again. Things are winding up and for most of us, we’ll have a little time away from the grindstone.
- Pimped!
- Isn’t it nice when people do nice things and ask for nothing in return?
- The ever-watchful subconscious
- So I recently had a scary realisation when I noticed a very familiar diagram on the back of the shampoo bottle in my shower.
- Ripped!
- Well, a little over a week into the new site, we have our first rip of my design. Sigh…
- Fun with a tablet
- No, I’m not talking about drugs. I picked up a cheap drawing tablet recently and thought I’d share my first experiments with it in Photoshop.
- Incestuous design
- Ok, I admit — it’s a title that could turn some people off. It’s going to be a nightmare searching for it on google. But dammit, if nothing else, it’s original.
- A New Beginning
- So here we are. The first blog post on a fresh newly designed site. It’s like sliding into freshly pressed bed linen.
- Logo marathon
- Sometimes (and I mean, only sometimes) the most grueling design jobs can be the most rewarding.
- Making it real
- This is the story of how one idea can inform a whole campaign and visual identity.
- What’s in a name?
- What’s in a name? Well, I would argue that if your product’s good, then probably not that much.
- Tippin’ the Balance
- How do you turn a 200-page manual into something athletes will want to interact with?