One Year Later… A New Design is Born

Well, almost. It’s pretty much a year since I scrapped my old ExpressionEngine site and put together a portfolio and blog in WordPress. Mine was the first WordPress site that I built, and, while the sticky tape’s held it all together pretty nicely, there’s so much that could be improved.

That’s why it’s been quiet here as of late — I’ve been working away behind the scenes in my spare time to create a new look and feel for my site. One that’s a lot more… me. I’m polishing it off and covering over the scuff marks at the moment, so it’ll be put in place very shortly.

Doodle Pong

After a mis-tweet by @thedoodlebar earlier today, here are the rules to my newly invented game of Doodle Pong.

Photo by Yogma

The umpire writes a selection of words or phrases on scraps of paper and places them in cups at one end of the ping pong table, like in Beer Pong.
Two teams of two players are [...]

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Come on down to Cut&Paste tomorrow night!

Man, what a week this has been! I moved to a new home in Clapham on Wednesday, I turned 24 yesterday and spent the evening illustrating in Soho for Collage Club, and today I’m busy unpacking, catching up on work, and trying to find time to start practicing for tomorrow night’s Cut&Paste design competition… Hopefully [...]

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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.

OK, it’s just a holding page for the [...]

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Flexing my Design Muscles for Saturday’s Cut & Paste Tryout

What a great night! It’s now the early hours after Shrove Tuesday, and after a pleasant evening at my friend’s house getting full on pancakes, I returned home to find an email from Cut & Paste letting me know that I’ve been accepted for an audition to enter into the main London competition round!
For those [...]

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Rob Barrett Introduction