There are a lot of browsers out there. There are the major ones that everyone has heard about – Safari, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer (Windows only, obviously – and let’s face it, you can’t not have heard of it if you own a Windows computer). I’m a very picky person when it comes to the [...]
Yup, that’s right, yet again I’ve redesigned my blog. I really ought to just find a design I like and see if I can stick with it for more than 6 months. This time, I’ve gone for an old style, poster on the wall, advertising concerts, kind of feel. The menu on the left was [...]
As you may or may not know, I occasionally enter the logo design competitions on Worth1000.com, just for fun really. This time, I entered a competition for a company called Young Minority Entrepreneurs, and though my entry was voted by the readers as 16th out of 26, the client liked mine best!
This post is going to be a strange assortment of random design stuff I’ve either found or acquired the last few days that I think are awesome. Firstly I was walking past Eldon Building at University the other day when I noticed some large wooden letters in a window spelling out the word “TIME”. I [...]
This is one of the best adverts I’ve seen – beautifully executed. It’s a brilliant design. If you want a higher resolution, you can download one here.
I bought a new bible yesterday. And I must admit: the only reason I bought it was because of how awesome the cover was. The typography jumped out at me the minute I saw it on the shelf when I was browsing round Waterstones.
I was bought this album a while back, for my 20th birthday in January, and I’ve been meaning to post something on here about it for ages now. Dan Hadland and I were in Tescos in Commercial Road, the reason escapes me for now.
As you may have noticed, there’s a new Sleeping Monkey design up. If you haven’t noticed, I don’t know what site you’re looking at, unless you’re reading this through a feed reader, I suppose.
The Content Management Systems (CMS) that powers my main site is called Expression Engine, and is incredibly powerful and flexible. They have a showcase gallery of sites that are powered by their CMS, and guess who found today they were in it? Exciting news.
I found a really cool Mackintosh-inspired font, and whipped up this little preview quickly:
I’ve been going wallpaper crazy at work… check them out at www.bencardy.co.uk/downloads. Feel free to download them as you wish, comment here if you like them or use them though!!
As you may have noticed, I’ve moved to the new Floating Leaf collection (if anyone can think of a more inspirational name?). Comments on it welcome. I’ve also changed my portfolio site, a completely new design, “Design Like No Other”. This time the site is based on ExpressionEngine, a very powerful Content Management System. I [...]
Now you can see the power of my collections plugin! Notice that my blog is now a totally different colour scheme and with a seperate image? All posts that occur after this date, until I start a new collection, will be colour schemed this way. And any posts before this date will have the old [...]
Got an e-mail from James Goodship detailing rotas, breaks, and a map of Guildhall Square and positioning of events and things during the weekend yesterday. Turns out I’ll be on shift from 9am to 8pm with 45 minutes break during the day, both days. Then I’ll be manning the stage from 1am to 5am Sunday [...]
The term MOSe stands for Mozilla, Opera, Safari Enhancements. It basically means providing a more enhanced version of a website to those browsers capable of viewing it. And Sleeping Monkey is my first site to take advantage of it! Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Windows is the most notable exception to the rules of standard [...]
Quote forms have been added to this site! To request a free quote, you need to select the option that best matches your requirements, and then fill out the corresponding form. I will reply with a quote asap, and I hope to be hearing from you soon!
This portfolio has been re-designed!! I hope you like the changes – some have been listed below, others you will just have to find out for yourself by browsing the site ;) Enjoy your stay. These are a sample of the changes: This design blog itself! Previously I haven’t had a blog purely for design [...]
