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The First Website 30 Apr 2013 | 09:00 am
Twenty years ago today, CERN published a statement that made the World Wide Web freely available. To mark this anniversary, CERN – together with Mark Boulton Design – are starting a project to restore...
Quietly working 25 Mar 2013 | 08:00 am
When I passed my driving test, I had a couple of advanced driving lessons a few months after. One day I remember particularly well was when my instructor told me I had to provide a running commentary ...
UI is visible. Type is visible. 14 Mar 2013 | 08:00 am
In 1955, Beatrice Warde gave a presentation to the Typographer’s Guild in London (now, the International Society of Typographic Design) which later became an essay titled: ‘The Crystal Goblet, or Prin...
ATLAS 13 Mar 2013 | 08:00 am
Eighteen months ago, I blogged that we’d started working with CERN on redesigning their site. A dream project for me. And one that is in its final chapters as the site went live last week. But, as wit...
CERN 11 Mar 2013 | 08:00 am
Last week, CERN quietly redirected their URL to the new site. And Mark Boulton Design and the CERN project team saw the chapter close on nearly two years of work. There is much to talk about with a p...
The In-Between 14 Feb 2013 | 10:00 am
Breakpoints. Break. Points. Points at which things break in your design. But, at what point did they start becoming ‘the point at which I will create a new layout entirely’, or ‘the point at which I ...
Change your mind 8 Feb 2013 | 01:00 pm
My four year old daughter attends a rural primary school in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales. The school performs in the top 3% in Wales. Consistently. It’s over-subscribed with waiting lists to attend....
Design is veneer 15 Jan 2013 | 01:00 pm
On the run up to Christmas, that wonderful annual advent calendar 24 Ways published an article called: How to make your site look half decent in half an hour . In some designer quarters, this was jump...
Sparkicons and the humble Hyperlink 10 Jan 2013 | 01:00 pm
The humble hyperlink is an incredibly simple, powerful tool on the web. In fact, many would say that our ability to link one resource to another via hypertext is what makes the web what it is. But, I ...
Abstractions After The Fact 8 Jan 2013 | 01:00 pm
Pattern primers, style guides, pattern libraries. They’re all the rage. And they make good sense, but I think we’re in danger of working back to front. At Mark Boulton Design we get quite a few proje...
