Stephen Keable

With Christmas only a few days away, I thought I would give my friends over at Soak a shout out, as they have created a brilliant Christmas microsite. It’s great little site that allows you to share your dream Christmas and potentially win a Harrods Hamper too. The design is a wonderful 50s treatment and [...]

I’m guessing most people will have at least heard of Call of Duty by now, well Black Ops give you the opportunity to create your own playercard (emblem) instead of having to pick and choose from ones created by the developers. So what did I decide to create, the Foursquare Super Mayor badge of course, [...]

If you are a designer you will undoubtedly use stock image libraries from time to time, spending hours finding just the right image for you design. Chances are you also spend thousands a year on these images, however there are a few tricks to be able to reduce your costs. The examples are for istockphoto.com which is [...]

This is Baker, he’s the Smash Skates cat. I was inspired too create a logo for Smash Skates based around their cat, which also lead to a few illustrations I created for a handmade zine I gave Ash (Smash Skates owner) as a birthday present.

Since the arrival of the iPad and it’s lack of Flash support, lots of people have moaned about video and interactive elements on websites no longer working on many sites. We have then seen big PR and marketing pushes by lots of websites saying they are now iPad compatible. The thing which hasn’t gotten as much press [...]

So this is my desk and where I edit my photos, write blog posts, design things and beaver away at code, on the evenings and weekends. I’ve finally got it almost the way I want it in the lounge, with a bookcase of books full of inspiration and near the stereo (which was playing The [...]

A few apps have appeared on the iPad recently that render your content in a new layout, either via an RSS feed or by scraping the page in someway. The two stand out apps are Pulse which is a rather nice RSS feed reader which displays content in a better way than the usual list [...]

Back when I was a scanner operator, before the days of everyone having a digital camera and broadband, you had to scan all the photos of houses for the property pages in newspapers. This was a mind numbing task at times however my iPod got me through it. I still stick the headphones in when [...]

Skateboarding has been a huge influence on my life for more than ten years now, the biggest influence has always come from the Girl and Chocolate Skateboards family (also known as Crailtap). Above are so links to the photographers, designers and artists from those companies.

So work have paid for me to have an iPad to use for research and development. I’ve been playing with it for a couple of evenings now, in fact this post was written on the wordpress app. The standard media apps have been downloaded (except the times one out of principal) and they have all [...]