The self-promoter’s essential checklist
If you have something to say about your product or service, then you've got the fuel for the Google search engine – a regular supply of information for a dedicated audience
Avoid phone wallets, and other simple security tips
We all know we should have strong passwords but who knew the risks from phone wallets? Here are some simple things we can do to improve our personal data security
Is your website showing its age?
Your website was a masterpiece in the very latest of communication technology when it launched ten years ago, but how is it looking now?
The Big Read – a broadsheet design for a content-rich site
'The Big Read' is a broadsheet magazine design built for a website with a lot of content presented in a magazine digest layout
Putting the ‘fun’ in functionality
Communication is the name of the game but clarity and accessibility don't have to come at the expense of fun. Talk to the robot…
Don’t charge extra for card payments – it’s illegal
Are you charging your customers extra for card payments? Adding a nominal amount of 50p or £1 for card vs cash payments is breaking the law and you risk prosecution. And worse…
It’s not the taking part, it’s the winning that counts
Why do you need Big Impact Design in your team? What exactly do we do for you? Founder, Tim Baggaley, dips into his youth for a lesson in teamwork
Paper Dolls for Derby Shakespeare
Creating artwork for theatre productions is great fun as every job is different and exciting. Designing for Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of 'Paper Dolls' was a joy
A recipe for success
Take the right ingredients, blend them carefully and you can cook up a website that will feed the needs of all your hungry clients. Warning, the following article contains puns…
Digital crisis management – what’s your recovery plan?
The Blue Screen Of Death, The Spinning Beachball Of Doom, hackers, thieves, spilt coffee, phones under water… What do you do when your digital life goes down the toilet?
Is your website a freak like mine?
If you want a visually arresting and utterly unique website then you're in the right place. Super Freak! is a stunner and looking for a home…
Putting practice into theory
When Tim Baggaley was commissioned by Northeastern University London to explain to psychology students how graphic design works, he forensically dissected his project methodology to show them how the mind of a creative operates
The Facebook problem and how to fix it
Many small businesses and solo traders rely on their posts to social networks to promote their trade while their domain name website sits collecting dust. That's not good
A perfect website design for event promotion
Do you organise events? You need a website designed like this one to highlight your smart calendar
Punk snot dead…
Music fans love the covers, sleeve notes and booklets that come with CD and vinyl records and we love designing them. Vinyl's not dead and MP3s don't come with gatefold inserts…
Animation movies for social media
We added Affinity's suite of creative applications and Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve movie-maker to our repertoire in this animation project
Is your password rubb!$h?
With the COVID-19 pandemic isolation, we are spending more time online than ever. Our login data is an enormous buffet for hackers but while we are all sitting at our keyboards, now is a perfect time to ramp up our security
How to think like an artist
Simply drag and drop to build your own website to get that minimal design featured on thousands of other websites to make sure you don't stand out from the crowd
Magazine typography for websites
Once upon a time, there was no Cascading Style Sheets and just half-a-dozen, dull 'web-safe' fonts. Now we have pseudo-selectors and font hosting as the web's typography catches up with the Middle Ages…
Photoshop stealth mode, leave no trace
Faking photos has been around for a long time, Photoshop is just a newer way of doing it. The trick remains the same, though; conceal your working
Keep your bulk email out of the SPAM box
If you use a mailing list to promote a business enterprise, no matter how modest, then you need to comply with the GDPR law and best practice protocols or you'll end up branded a SPAMMER
Always judge a book by its cover
Why do we judge books by their covers? Because quick decisions based on simple, visual clues are right more often than they are wrong and there’s good reason for that, and that is very handy for graphic designers
Take that look off your Facebook
You might think that posting content to your project's Facebook page is sharing your content with the world but it turns out, Facebook might actually be quite secretive with your content
Watch your language!
There's no excuse for a news publisher like The Metro posting this clumsy typo. Sure, we may laugh but the influencer in the article is making money from their T*tTok account and damage to their reputation could be costly. Are you a wordsmith? Try this test…