Richard Hawley - Coles Corner

Last August, I was in a pub near Lindisfarne (The Lindisfarne Inn no less) when Richard Hawley and two members of his band came in for a drink. At that time, I had never seen a photo of him, and had only downloaded a few tracks from 3hive. All I knew was that he looked very cool, and that I kicked myself a few weeks later when I saw him perform on Jonathan Ross and realised it was him.

It became the catalyst for discovering his wonderful music. Echoes of Scott Walker, Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash often make his songs seem suited to late nights and rain soaked streets, much like this title track from his previous album Coles Corner. I’m guessing not everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s most definitely mine!

Download Richard Hawley – Coles Corner. In addition to the tracks available from 3hive, there are more at Last.fm.

Tags: foundsounds, podcast

From Design to Deployment

Now that I’m back from Future of Web Design, I’ve got a chance to do more of a write-up.

The FOWD sessions were great, with sponsored Microsoft slot aside (“Please make the bad man stop…”). Andy Budd particularly engaged me with his presentation of the “User Experience Curve”, and Steve Pearce from Poke had the slides I wish I’d done. It was the first time I’d heard Paul Boag outside of the podcast, and I think he did a tremendous job of chairing the event.

Tags: fowd, presentations, slides

Camino 1.6

While I was away at FOWD, Camino 1.6 was released, with lovely new features like the find bar (at last!), OpenSearch support, and many more. Wonderful stuff!

In particular though, I had a lump in my throat at the new homepage screenshot, that apparently was taken for me:

Tags: camino

Urgent: I need Icon Designers!

Update: I’ve had such a great response to this! It looks as if I’ve already got the job covered, but please do send in your details and samples. I promise I will look at each one and keep your details for future projects. Thanks!

I need help! Are you icon designer, experienced in creating application and interface icons for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista? Can create icons from 16px up to 512px? Yes? Now, are you free this month?!

I have an large-ish icon project for a software application (can’t say more than that at the moment) on with an urgent deadline of the end of April, and I need your help! If this sounds like you, please drop me an email (see the footer) and let me see your portfolio, either online, or as attached samples. Even if you’re not contracted on this project, I’m always looking for good designers to recommend clients to, and work with.

Tags: icons

Cabel Sasser: Coda Confidential

I spent a thoroughly fulfilling hour last night watching Cabel Sasser’s presentation for C4 on how Panic started, developing my favourite tool Coda, and generally interface and icon design. I’ve never heard Cabel talk before, although I got an impression of his voice from his blog, but the reality was better than I had imagined.

Tags: coda, panic, presentations, video