How about a Nice Hot Cuppa?

Recently, I’ve been thinking that a change in branding would do my own freelance business some good — that having a ’studio’ name, rather than using my own, would help in gaining new custom. To that end, I’m happy to announce that Nice Hot Cuppa is now online.

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OK, it’s just a holding page for the time being, until I build the site (and that probably won’t happen for at least a month or so — March is already filled up with holidaying and moving house), but it’s good to finally have something more substantial than just an idea in my head.

To reflect that I’m trying to involve myself in less web development, and more work involving graphic design and illustration, NHC will be geared towards generating clients requiring need print design, and digital design that doesn’t involve much in the way of back-end coding. I’ll still be working on web development for a number of existing clients, but I’m not going to be actively pushing this service.

This site, Rob Barrett Design, will remain in order to showcase my personal projects and to host my blog (I’m still undecided as to whether I should blog under RBD or NHC, so I’ll keep it here for the time being), and it will likely shift towards a role that supports my search for a full-time design job in London.

I’ve got a nice UPrinting giveaway planned to mark the unveiling of the finished NHC site, so keep your eyes peeled for that!

Gmail does it again — say hello to Tasks!

Just as I was heading to bed last night, I spotted a new link at the top of my Gmail page announcing the arrival of Google Mail Tasks under the Labs programme.

Obviously I couldn’t go straight to sleep without checking this out first, so I spent a few minutes having a play around with it. [...]

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Thanks for dressing me, FreshBooks!

Just over two weeks ago, FreshBooks ran a little competition through Twitter. They’d published a new press release on their website and intentionally left a couple of spelling mistakes in.
The competition was this — first person to find and report the two mistakes wins a t-shirt. Simple!
I loaded the page, had a read through, and [...]

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Rob Barrett Introduction