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Boag Potter: the days before Hogscape 3 months ago

Categories: Journal Digging around and mucking out some old Headscape folders, I found a remarkable photo of Harry Potter in a mini bus. Took me a moment to notice I was driving the thing and this was in fact Mr Boag himself off for a game of Quidditch. I believe this was before the films were …

Macbook Hob 3 months ago

Categories: Journal If this is what it takes to keep my desktop Intel i7 2600K (sandybridge) nice and cool;  35ºC  (without overclocking at least) then I’m wondering how the heck Apple are going to keep their next generation of Macbook Airs cool. I guess the entire aluminium body …

Fruity Loops on iOS 3 months ago

Categories: Journal Been a long term user of Fruity Loops on and off over the years. It’s always been highly intuitive removing most barriers from instant creativity. Didn’t see this one coming to the iPad, but wonder how it stacks up against the mighty Garage Band both in terms of …

Cinebench 3 months ago

Categories: Journal Maxon, the makers of Cinema 4D (a truly intuitive 3D package, and the only one I’ve ever really got along with) have a great tool available for benchmarking CPU performance. Cinebench is a free download from the Maxon site.   What I particularly like about it is, …

1 Minute Wonder 3 months ago

Categories: Journal Amazing what happens on the Internet in a single minute. One of those infographics that summarises and educates where words and numbers alone fail. ( Read more... )

A Father’s Day gift 3 months ago

Categories: Journal Finally got round to creating an online archive of my Dad’s creative work.  I have a lot more to add to it over time, but please with the progress I made on Father’s Day. ( Read more... )

Ugly Duckling 3 months ago

Categories: Blog Tags: photoblog I’m not a big fan of swans. Graceful yes. Slightly scary and generally annoying, definitely. In fact they used to be my mortal enemy when I used to be a keen fisherman. But as I came across this mother and her lone cygnet, even I had to admit that it was a …

National Air Traffic Service 3 months ago

Categories: Portfolio A new Website design for the National Air Traffic Service. Having designed their last site six or seven years ago, it was staring to look a little dated. An updated layout, navigation and a new look at their brand stripes was required as well as some more up-to-date means …
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Leigh Howells

Designerist, consultant, tunesmith. Definitely more platinum blonde than grey. Doesn't actually wear glasses. Yet. Works at Headscape. http://leigh.be

@cole007 @StuRobson Yep, definitely a great way to learn. Though Wordpress makes me think blog-like all the time, even when I don't want to.@leigh

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