Damned Things

I live and work in Dublin, Ireland, as Creative Director in a web development company. I set the company up in 2002 with my business partner after years and years of dithering and faffing about being a writer, a photographer, a designer, and an art director for other people:
Nexus451.

In April 2006 I took up photography again after giving it up as a profession in the early 1990s. In April 2007 I got myself a proper digital camera, a Canon 5D, and my pixels can be found here:
Mick's Photos.

Design Links For Today

MyFonts starts off 2008 with it’s top ten fonts of 2007. Michael Bierut of Pentagram talks about type and the new Xerox logo. John Caserta likes playing with helvetica, foam and a hot wire cutter. Here’s ilovetypography’s list of 15 great examples of web typography, something that’s sorely lacking in the medium. For the typographer in your life, a chair. The US Postal Service is putting out some lovely stamps lately, especially these soon to be launched Eames 41c stamps.

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Misc Links For Today

Bruce Nussbaum usually has articles worth reading and his 10 best books to get you through a recession is no exception. Emily Chang has started PicCool which is an eclectic mix of interesting bits and bobs.

App & Techy Links For Today

Mashable has a useful list of 20 applications for your mobile phone that are available today. iDesktopTV is a desktop application for searching and downloading content from YouTube. Photophlow lets you share, comment and chat about your Flickr photos. Technology Review has an interesting article on data mining from your mobile phone and what it knows about you. Open Source Living puts you in touch with all the online free applications you could ever need. Fed up with Facebook and want to leave, it’s not as easy as you might think but Steven Mansour explains all. Convertit lets you convert any media file format (Documents, Images, Audio, Video & Archives) without buying or installing anything on your PC.

Design Links For Today

Smashing Magazine has some interesting bits in its article on Innovative Design & Devices. Newsdesigner puts together 50 newspaper front pages on the Iowa caucuses, interesting to see all the different approaches on one pages. Gagan at Design Stamp has a sweet guide for clients on how to get the best out of your designer: work with them, not against them. Design Observer asks are design skills are transferrable, and why some designers are looking to see where else they can ply their talents. A bizzare way to do it, but there’s a fine collection of colour palettes over at Wearing Palettes.