Chichester Design

Another week, another excuse to pop over the road to Pallant House Gallery. This time I was there for the inaugural South Coast Design Forum (SCDF) conference on design and the modern interior, which was the first design event of its type held on the south coast.

It was a really interesting day, opened by SCDF chairman Wayne Hemingway, who got stuck straight in to the importance of design in today’s marketplace. One of his main points was that the design industry as a whole needs to emphasise that design adds value. He also argued for greater focus on …

There has been some recent speculation that online content is taking over the territory of offline content somewhat. And having worked both in the publishing industry and as a creator of online content, I have to say that this subject is more than a little interesting to me.

I worked for a large publishing firm which was, let’s say, a little backwards about coming forwards when it came to the deadly importance of online content. As I had experience of Search Engine Optimisation I taught my team what I knew, some of them embraced the knowledge and some of them …