About

Me

I’m a web designer from Sydney, Australia. I started out as an old-school webmaster around 12 years ago before going into freelance web design. Around 8 years ago I got into agency work, creating sites for government organisations, financial companies and consumer brands.

Late in 2006, my fiancée and I took a sabbatical and went travelling around Asia and the Americas, and then laid our backpacks down in the UK, where we’ve been working since (and seeing bits and pieces of Europe when we can).

I’ve been working in London for the last three years in e-commerce user experience, designing sites for leading UK retailers. In my work I aim for a simple and clean aesthetic that evokes some kind of emotion. I always combine this with ease of use and clear purpose.

I’m really interested in how we experience our environment, and how we can improve that experience through design and technology. I’m also a firm believer in lifelong learning, in whatever form that may take.

This site

I’m running this site using the ever-popular Wordpress platform. I’m using WP 2.9.x and have rolled my own theme, while using various plugins for bits and pieces of functionality.

In general, the typefaces I’m using are Georgia for body text and Clarendon for the headings (but some posts may vary from this combination). I’m using cufón for embedding the headings for now, but I might change to an @font-face method in the not too distant future.

As I’m using this to try new techniques and such, I can’t guarantee everything will look brilliant in all browsers, particularly older ones (*ahem* IE6).