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Blog entries posted during March 2008

• Ben Saunders and his North Pole Speed Record

  

  Ben Saunders is a polar explorer, an athlete and a legend. At Erskine Design we got the pleasure of working with Ben on a website for his latest expedition; a solo speed record to the North Pole. Seeing as I had a significant role in the project, I thought I'd talk about some of the directions and decisions that were made during it's development.

  Read the rest of this entry, Ben Saunders and his North Pole Speed Record // Posted on 21/03/08 // 7 comments

• A little more about the redesign

  Designing a website for yourself is a hard thing to do. When I started designing this site I had a hundred different ideas that I wanted to implement. I wanted to reference this era of design, a bit of that one, and maybe use these photos and this typeface, etc. Seeing as I've reached a design that I'm pretty happy with, I thought I'd talk a bit about two of the main directions I took.

  Read the rest of this entry, A little more about the redesign // Posted on 06/03/08 // 4 comments

• She will be mine, oh yes

  

  The telecaster is without doubt, the coolest guitar ever made. There's no debate surrounding this, not even at the pub; it's a fact. This morning I got very excited by a particularly nice looking specimen.

  Read the rest of this entry, She will be mine, oh yes // Posted on 05/03/08 // 1 comment