the medium is the massage
Casting around (again) for an alternative to Tumblr as an, Chazzer G suggested Are.na. So I have set up what I have today learned Are.na calls a channel: Heidegger’s surfboard.
I doubt this will stick, but going to give it a try.
State of the Browser provided much mind-fodder. Predictably, this meant revisiting the Ravn website’s content and messaging.
Have a few seeds of blog posts in the works now. Also need: case studies, and portfolio-esque matter.
Side note: Site CSS here (not Ravn) updated because I’d missed permalink post headers. Now fixed.
For posterity, here are some archive.org entries for the iterations of the Vouchsafe website I was most involved with.
This capture from May 2024: shows the first version of the website to go live following their pivot and rebrand from Interrobang to Vouchsafe.
The development and design of the website and rebrand was done by Macu with me in a lightweight project manager-meets-creative director role. Vouchsafe’s founders were also directly involved.
This capture from August 2024 shows a first iteration where I had a chance to revisit the messaging and copy which had been first developed by Macu.
Unfortunately the site styling is missing from that capture — possibly to do with the website platform being switched from Webflow to Wordpress, hence sharing both captures.
The site has since been redesigned.
A very minor photo study of the Boote House in Felsted.
Went along to State of the Browser on Saturday. A really good event. I thoroughly recommend.
I managed to grab some quality time with the Barbican Centre that morning. It’s September, now, but still plenty of vibrant greens to have fun with VSCO’s infrared filters. Shared on Instagram.
Chipping away at the Ravn website in spare moments. Works better than the alpha version. Messaging still a work in progress. Need to get blogging.
Having great fun working with Measured on some comms bits and pieces. Good things happening on the Measured blog.
Created some lightweight CSS for Write.as that succesfully styles all the things, including on post archive pages. Sharing in case it’s a useful starting point for others, if only to save the hassle of figuring out class selectors.
As well as the help centre, helped Vouchsafe with some things around their preview launch this week. Here’s the LinkedIn post by way of way in.