Drawing on over thirty years of experience, I’ll show you how to uncover a company’s story, develop a distinctive visual language, and combine colour, typography, imagery, and layout to create designs that people recognise and remember.
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Yours truly over at the Smashing Magazine: “CSS relative colour values are now widely supported. In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke shares practical techniques for using them to theme and animate SVG graphics.”
Talk to my family and friends, and they’ll tell you I never bloody stop talking about the IWC Big Pilot 43 watch that I bought to celebrate my 60th in November. Mechanical watches are all over my social media feeds, and the other day I did a double-take when the algorithm suggested I might like a new design from, of all companies, Timex.
Although we’ve had a smattering of snow here in the Rhineland—where I’m basing myself for a couple of months—at home, an “arctic blast” means snow is threatening. Last week, I added a snow mode to my websites, but my pioneer characters still looked toasty and warm, and unaffected by the wintery conditions. So, it was time for them to get chilly.
A composer’s website shouldn’t look like every other composer’s. Here’s how I designed a portfolio for Begoña Pereda that reflected the person behind the music.
Count Binface already had an unmistakable personality. My job wasn’t to invent it. It was to translate it into a website where every illustration, typeface, colour, and layout decision felt unmistakably Binface.
A composer’s website shouldn’t look like everyone else’s. Here’s how I designed a portfolio for Michael Baugh that reflects the person behind the music.
A composer’s website shouldn’t look like everyone else’s. Here’s how I designed a portfolio for Mike Worth that reflects the person behind the music.
Music creates atmosphere long before it tells a story. I wanted Ryan Knaggs’ website to create that same feeling through colour, typography, and layout.
Every designer draws inspiration from somewhere. Here’s how I transformed Tristan Jakob-Hoff’s love of mid-century graphic design into his distinctive website.
I redesigned my contact page animation as a gold mine scene. Here’s how I approached the artwork, structured the SVG, and added subtle ambient animation using CSS.
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I’m Andy Clarke. I’ve spent over thirty years helping businesses, charities, and organisations create memorable websites. I’m also the author of books on web design.