If there’s one place on the Internet I can rattle on about myself unashamedly, I guess it’s here. This is also the place I can design in a way which is rarely appropriate, here I play and experiment and try not to fall into current design cliches (I have plenty of my own).

I’m the son of a sculptor and a soft toy designer. Alas, I was never destined to become a rocket scientist.

I’ve been in this game for a long time. Probably most of my life. I started designing on a Sinclair Spectrum as a kid in the early 80′s, using packages which didn’t even allow me to really save what I’d created. They had 8 colours. (But I learnt to dither to simulate more.) I created fonts on an 8X8 grid. It beeped. I bought a multichannel sound board. It beeped in 4 channels.

I programmed graphics and games and wrote music on 8-bit machines, working my way up to the Atari 800 XL which allowed a whole rainbow of colours to choose from (256 in fact – which almost seemed too many). It also had multichannel sound. I wrote music by programming Basic, created sound envelopes with for/next loops. For a while I was overwhelmed.

I got over it and bought an Atari ST in 1989. This had 4,096 colours (now I was completely spoilt for choice) and built in MIDI sockets. It had the GEM operating system – one of the first GUIs. I got a DTP package. I got a word processor. I got an art package. I could save things to floppy disk ! I got a MIDI sequencer. Heck, I even got a dot matrix printer. I produced lavish black and white dotty graphics at University. I produced MIDI music.

Throughout academic and early work, I always became the presentation guy
- by whatever means; crayons and paper, sugar paper and spraymount or even using Vax VMS and dot matrix printer.

Then… one day… I heard of this thing called the Internet…

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