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It’s proving to be a hectic time of year, we’ve just taken on a big run of work for Future Publishing, working on a range of exciting, fast paced projects. But we wanted to take the time to post up a few examples of the work we’ve been putting out since Christmas.
A new home for [...]
We don’t tend to do a lot of print design work, interactive’s our main focus. That said, we’ve just put together some rather sexy new business cards for our video production partner, Bexmedia.
We’re currently planning some very exciting work with Bexmedia, so stay tuned for that!
The past month’s flown by, but now it’s time to take a well earned break, so enjoy the Winterval! See you in the new decade…
With a view like this, what else do you need for inspiration?
label_to_value
There are always situations where it’s required to store what should be an <input />’s label as it’s value. This can be a real headache to make accessible and to ensure graceful degradation, so I wrote a quick reusable function which grabs the content of a label bound to an input with the “for” attribute [...]
We’ve just pushed live our first open source Wordpress plugin, it’s called Post Images and solved a problem we were having quite frequently. We tend to build image rich websites for our clients, everything from blog content to ecommerce items can all benefit from a good thumbnail image.
It helps the user find things problem, [...]
It’s been quite a year for us. At the end of 2008, Chris Garrett Media was a one-man band, building great websites from a shed in Slimbridge. Early 2009 saw me taking on far too much work, taking on my first employees and relocating to Bristol (it’s where all the talent is, you know). [...]