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YCN: Studio Insights

Phil’s been interviewed by the wonderful folks at YCN for their Intelligence column. He discusses what it’s like behind the scenes at Erskine Design: working across different timezones, the team, our approach and process.

Read the full interview here.

Published: 19 Apr ‘13 by Garrett Winder

Design, Code and technology

Bookmarking

Much has been said about the difficulties of reading a text on a screen yet little has been said of how a reader might want to change the text itself. Here we can see how a Parisian student ferociously marked his copy of Virgil sometime during the mid sixteenth century, highlighting and editing the text with comments. Images like this ask something of us; how should we mark and preserve our versions of a text today? And what about other sorts of markings, not just medieval, Parisian highlights and scribbles but changes of other kinds too?

Published: 14 Feb ‘13 by Robin Rendle

Design, News and culture

Job opening for a Senior Designer

We’re looking for a full-time senior web designer to join the team in our Nottingham office. It’s a great opportunity to work on some large-scale projects with a talented team for clients such as the BBC and Frieze.

Published: 13 Feb ‘13 by Phil Swan

Strategy and marketing

Commoditising web design: is the price right?

A couple of years ago on a busy Ryanair flight to Riga, I was seated next to an incongruously tweedy gent with a Terry Thomas demeanour. After a particularly heavy touchdown, he turned and asked “my god, did we land or were we shot down?” Clearly more familiar with traditional carriers, he seemed traumatised, which as frequent fliers will know is all part of the Ryanair experience.

Published: 23 Oct ‘12 by Iain Harper

Code and technology

Getting sprightly with SASS

A lot of you might be thinking “the LESS I hear about CSS preprocessors, the better”. But you could be missing out, while variables and nesting give us some sanity for frontend dev, things can get really fun with mixins.

Published: 4 Sep ‘12 by Chris Rowe

News and culture

Erskine USA

We’re excited to announce the opening of our new office in Houston, Texas! Our Operations Lead, Garrett Winder, is heading over to America to setup our first overseas office deep in the heart of Texas.

Published: 28 Jun ‘12 by Erskine Design

News and culture

EE-legal in Leiden

Garrett Winder, our Operations Lead, recently nipped over to Leiden in the Netherlands to speak at the EECI EU 2012 conference.

Published: 27 Jun ‘12 by Erskine Design

Design

Designing the Derby City Council website architecture using the LGNL

As part of our work with Derby City Council, we were asked to design a new information architecture for derby.gov.uk that their internal web team could then build upon. The council had identified Local Government Navigation List (LGNL) as a starting point for this new structure.

Published: 12 Jun ‘12 by Phil Swan