Category Archives: Creative

thoughts about the creative elements of what we do

Jamie Oliver at The Midnight Bell on TV tonight

Just a quick note to say that  ’Jamie’s Great Britain’ is on at 9:00pm on Channel 4 and it will be well worth a watch tonight as Jamie has been working with The Midnight Bell and Leeds Brewery!  On the show and … Continue reading

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A Persuasional Experience

It may be a term I’ve fabricated: the word ‘persuasional’ doesn’t even exist in a dictionary. What I hope it does is describe a vital ingredient in web design that is sometimes poorly considered. In my opinion, creating a ‘persuasional … Continue reading

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Cufon – a real alternative to sifr?

I’ve just finished reading an excellent blog post from Cameron Moll about Cufon, an emerging technology for font replacement on the web. At Bloom, we’ve experimented with using Sifr for font replacement, however, personally I always try to avoid using … Continue reading

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Are wireframes the death of creativity? User centred not user led design

I have been working with a lot of different usability agencies lately and it struck me that very small differences in how a user centred design project are run can have radically different outcomes, not all of which are positive. … Continue reading

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Follow the Money …or engage Warp-drive?!

Being a ‘silver surfer’, Chairman, CEO, NED, etc., gives me a privileged position of ‘outside-in’ insight into this industry which is still highly embryonic and quite naive in some ways; occasionally exhibiting the inconsistency of an early stage teenager! I am also ‘contemporary’ (some … Continue reading

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Bloom Media Launch Corporate Blog for Anglian Home Improvements

With the help of Bloom Media Anglian join the social media revolution. Continue reading

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Masks Inside Masks… a Photoshop Tutorial

This can be useful when you want to be able to tweak the postions of numerous images within a clipping mask. Continue reading

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Web design concepts a-go-go!

The creative section of the bloom blog is looking a little bit empty with a rather paltry post count of 0!

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