We hope that our sense of humour shows through in our work, but we take some things very seriously indeed, nothing more so than our political and ethical policy.
We do not accept commissions from companies or organisations whose manufacturing processes involve the exploitation of foreign workers, guest workers or child labour in any country. This includes companies or organisations who have closed factories and other plants within the UK and relocated their manufacturing to nations where labour is cheap. We do actively accept commissions from trade unions and other workers' representative organisations and offer reduced rates for these organisations.
We do not accept commissions from companies or organisations who provide goods or services to the military or so-called defence industries of any nation including the UK. We do actively accept commissions from organisations campaigning against the UK's export of atomic, biological or chemical weapons.
We do not accept commissions from companies or organisations whose products have at any point been tested on animals. We actively accept commissions from organisations campaigning against experimentation on laboratory animals.
Some things in life are more important than work or money. Taking a stand against what we believe to be unethical or immoral activities goes a long way to helping us sleep at night.
We have been designing and developing fantastic web sites for our clients from our tiny studio in North Wales since 1998. We may be small but we have made a big name for ourselves and we are now well-known around the world.
Our aims are simple — to make nice work for nice people — work that we can be proud of. We aim to stay small and stay passionate about what we do best: creative design for the web.
Designer and author Andy Clarke writes:
When my wife and I moved to rural North Wales to get away from the stress of living and working in and around London, word soon got around. Before we were fully unpacked, people started asking us to work for them. I am pleased that over ten years later, people are still asking.
Our clients have and do include: Disney Store UK, Liverpool University, New Internationalist, Ogilvy One, Save The Children UK, WWF UK and xStrata.
Andy Clarke has been called a lot of things since he started working on the web at Stuff and Nonsense ten years ago. His ego likes words like ambassador for CSS, industry prophet and inspiring, but actually he is most proud that Jeffrey Zeldman once called him a bastard
Andy is a member of the Web Standards Project and a former invited expert to the W3C’s CSS Working Group. He took ten months out of his life to write the best-selling book Transcending CSS: The Fine Art Of Web Design, but Andy's passion is amazing web design. He loves making designs for the web, writing about design and teaching it at workshops and conferences all over the world.