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Megan Boyd
After a very hectic day at work my nerves were soothed by ‘Kiss the Water’ a very peaceful documentary on Megan Boyd, who spent her whole life tying classic and traditional Atlantic salmon flies. She lived most of her adult life in a small cottage in Kintradwell, near Brora. Considered a friendly eccentric by her…
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Matisse at the Tate Modern
Went to the Tate today without the kids, as they refused to see an exhibition about paper cut-outs. Not unreasonable as they spend all day making paper cut-outs.
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Comics Unmasked at the British library
Today I went to visit Comics Unmasked, ‘UK’s largest ever exhibition of mainstream and underground comics’ to quote the library’s website . As someone who has read a lot of comics it was fun to see some of them in a museum case.
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Put together
Bridget Riley Hesitate 1964, David Hockney A Bigger Splash 1967, Antony Caro Early One Morning 1962. All together in the corner of Room 1960, a perfect composition, sometimes the Tate puts things together in a way that is lovely, and not around some abstract theme like the Tate modern. Left the gallery very happy. Made up for…
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What’s New Pussycat
I first saw Françoise Hardy at the end of the a very silly film called Whats New Pussycat, and then she sang on Blurs single ‘To the End’. In the film Michael James (Peter O’Toole) has just got married to Carole (Romy Schneider) and calls the mayor’s assistant (Françoise Hardy) ‘pussycat’. Carole takes this to be…
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Service Design for Project Canvas for ITV
Project Canvas, (rebranded YouView) is a partnership between ITV, Channel 4, BBC, Arqiva, BT and TalkTalk, to provide catch up TV, video on demand, and regular TV through a set-top box. Seren was asked by ITV to investigate its users viewing habits and based on this research provide recommendations and concepts for the Canvas platform.…
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Speedy Design
If I am working on very small sites, which need a very quick turn around. I often find myself skipping most web development processes. As building a working site you can quickly adapt as you go along seems to be the most efficient path. This creates some unusual photoshop files which just contain mock ups of…
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Whats on TV.co.uk
Whats on TV magazine is Britain’s best selling magazine with over 4 million readers a week. I was asked to redesign Whats on TV.co.uk its online site. It was decided from the start that it would be an iterative process.
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AOL HomePage 3.0
Using ‘agile’ working methods to produce a prototype homepage that incorporated a wide range of AOL products. User stories were developed for each module on the screen, and wireframes were designed to meet those stories. From these wireframes a working prototype was developed.
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