You had me at ‘heritage’
When friends recently emailed me asking for some design advice on their newly-purchased heritage home, I knew this was the job for me.
Car camping
I’m not getting any younger and I know there is still so much to see and do so I’ve created a mini home-away-from-home in my car to take quick little weekend trips away.
Important Documents
I've put together a free PDF checklist of Important Documents that you may like to use to get your household organised. It’s by no means definitive, but it's a starting point so you know where everything is should you ever need it – emergency or not.
So what exactly is a product page?
I have designed hundreds of product pages - literally, hundreds – layouts in magazines, brochures, websites and socials that promote advertiser or client product, convey visual concepts and set trends.
Google Docs. But not as you know it.
Google Docs is a word-processing app. Perfect for formatting text documents. But what if you wanted to do more… add imagery, position that imagery where you wanted it to go, have some control over the page layout, make your document functional AND look great.
Why Google Docs?
Knowing that my clients often require a way to edit their newly-designed documents without having to engage a designer to make updates, I set out to create a system of templates that mix-and-match taking the guesswork out of design.
The key tenets of great brand: Trust
It’s not rocket science, it’s just common decency and respect. Once you identify any negative behaviours that may be affecting your relationships, work at changing them and build on growing a brand that your customers, clients and colleagues trust.
The key tenets of a great brand: Values
Your values determine how you live your life, what’s important to you and how you prioritise your time, energy and resources. They’re beliefs about what is wrong or right, what is good or bad, what’s acceptable or not acceptable – to you.
Working from home
Like many around the world now, you may be working from home now. You’ll understand how important it is to have an environment that supports your efforts.
Trust your instincts
We all have an innate sense that alerts us when things aren’t in line with our values. It’s nothing personal, some people just aren’t meant to work together.