arup’s blog

Any trained or experienced graphic designer will balk at what I’m going to say, but I’m putting out my two pennies worth anyway. Hopefully I’ll get a few pointers from the masters.

This morning I had the idea of writing a post on a random subject, but then wondered how I would generate that subject. I could take a Lucky Dip in the dictionary or even create a script for generating random words to get the juices flowing. I thought that in addition to my usual topics […]

A few months ago I began reading about grid based design and came across two guys in particular who wrote well on the subject, namely Mark Boulton and Khoi Vinh. I found it all very interesting but didn’t quite get the idea. I mean how to actually apply it to layouts etc. Sometimes you have […]

A couple of months ago I was looking into PHP courses for this year starting in September. I couldn’t find much except for short intensive courses that lasted 4 days and cost around £1500 or so. That was beyond my budget and probably designed for people who already have experience in other programming languages, which […]

When you buy a new computer, whether it’s a desktop machine or a laptop, most people don’t realise that it can be upgraded. I have recently upgraded the RAM memory for a couple of people who saw how easy it was to do. This is really the first stop when it comes to improving the performance of your computer.