Freelance Website and Media design

on sunday afternoon i opened my trusty macbook to find that the hard drive had failed in a terminal manner. worst case scenario for many people, and it would have been a disaster but for apple’s fantastic time machine.

time machine, for the non-mac fraternity, is an integral part of os x which archives any change you make to your system and lets you return to it to retrieve an old version. the idea is that you point it at an external drive and let it backup automatically in the background.

it’s total system failure where it really comes into its own, though. the same day, i was able to locate a new hard drive; i had it picked up the next morning, and after a ten-minute install job was able to run time machine to restore my system - a process which took just over two hours for 140gb of files. perfect.

a couple of bits of press advertising carried out in the rare time this month i haven’t been busy working on fun stuff for iloaded and a couple of others (coming to this space soon).

the central hotel asked me to design them a flyer to be distributed with football programmes; stuart spray wildlife consultancy commissioned the press ad above to accompany an article in a nationwide construction magazine.

this month, i’ve been working on a couple of interesting projects for callisti ltd, an edinburgh-based seo and website management company.

i worked with callisti to develop the branding shown above and have been providing design and development for them as an ongoing service - i’m hoping to continue doing a lot of work with them in the future.

callisti do a lot of the hardcore seo work that makes the difference when launching your site, and offer website management services for larger web based projects.