Over the last couple of months since my last Penguin update I’ve managed to make some nice additions to the collection. You’ll have to excuse the picture quality — I don’t currently have access to my scanner, so I’m relying on my phone’s camera for now which is less than ideal. Anyway, on with these additions (in no particular order (I can’t remember what order I got these in!)).
The House of the Four Winds, John Buchan, 1960 reprint
A while ago, I decided that, for me at least “shiny” was dead. I noticed that I wasn’t the only one too. By a long shot! I went ahead and removed all the shininess from my logo, adjusted my CSS so form buttons would match and redesigned the social media button on the right there. But I didn’t stop there, oh no. I carried on and made a load more buttons, and now you too can have clean, sexy, solid icons of your very own.
I recently started reading Penguin by Design, which is so far fantastic. It’s also inspired me to continue seriously with my old Penguin book collection, which currently stands at a colossal total of seven books! Well, I have only just properly started — I actually purchased three (below) from a bookshop in Rochester quite some time ago, but never got around to buying any more.
Voters, Parties and Leaders by Jean Blondel, 1965 print; Penguin Survey of Business and Industry 1966, 1966 print; The Economic History of the World Population by Carlo M. Cipolla, 1974 print
Here’s a little peek at something I’m currently working on…
So I got a version of Corel Painter Sketchpad (presumably a cut down version of Corel Painter) with the new graphics tablet which I’ve been piddling about with for the last hour or so.
I was about two thirds of the way through the compulsory Standards of Business Conduct online training when I found a way to make it more fun.
A friend of mine runs a blog called Pixelinx on which he documents his experiences and thoughts on web development. Recently, he invited me to contribute my thoughts on design — which I’ve started doing.
I know this sort of thing has been done to death, but I enjoy wasting office supplies too, you know.
