BlueSpore Articles

Design, UX & Business

Online Marketing & SEO Tips & Best Practices

Your presence on the web and indeed the effectiveness of your presence is powered strongly by your marketing. Internet marketing helps target specific demographics, increase your search engine ranking and based on it’s results; improve your quality of service for your customers. Advertisement unit guidelines You see them everywhere. Digital advertisements, pop-ups and flash banners are a pretty standard part of the internet these days. Let’s face it – the web is a marketing tool that attracts millions of users every single day. If you’re
Read More …


Speed Up Your Web Development

This collection of standards, resources tools are aimed at helping improve production quality and increase the speed of your work flow. By adhering to common web standards it not only takes away the pain of measuring, ruling, coding and programming tedious tasks that are required as the base and beginning for any project, it also means you’ll be guaranteed cross browser performance. This kit will ensure you can concentrate on what matters, the design, functionality and effectiveness of your website whilst the tedious tasks are
Read More …


Web Design Process – Tools & Tips

Make no mistakes – Project design is one of the most important things in the development process. The development of code and its functionality is just as important, but the design is what the front end user will constantly interact with. It creates the look and feel of a project and encapsulates the ideas and beliefs that it stands for and aims to achieve. Sometimes the drive to actually begin working on a project is already there but you’re stuck for ideas on how to
Read More …


Four Lessons Brought On By Disaster

First and foremost – What has happened in the last two months is absolutely horrible and left many people and indeed entire communities without elements of their lives that they’ve worked so hard for so many years for. What thousands was once called home soon became the desolate, toxic water damaged expanse that was witnessed all over the national Australian and even international news world wide. With over 67 communities affected, even the most strenuous efforts were reduced to simply sitting and watching as life,
Read More …


Why You Should Delete Your Facebook Now

Errr… maybe? Social networking has a filthy habit of creeping into our lives and stealing away the time we would have once spent actually seeing friends or generally being more productive. We’re all guilty of it. I began using MySpace in 2004 when a friend had introduced me to it wherein I saw the potential of using a website to network in such a way. To be honest, it was more a glorified email service that also allowed you to view what your friends had
Read More …


Your Packaging Design Is Flawed

Lately I’ve been noticing a spurt in creativity and finesse with promotional design and product packaging. The way in which a company’s product is perceived to their consumers is more vital than I’m sure some would like to think. There are a huge number of products that don’t actually advertise and rely solely on store positioning and attractive packaging to draw people in. The thing is, it actually works. There’s an entire psychology behind the way in which consumer navigates a shop, scans an aisle
Read More …


Beyond The Door – Stellarcaster Project Information

Stellarcaster are a local pop rock band from the Mornington Peninsula that draw influences from bands like The Beatles, Supergrass and Led Zeppelin. I was approached by Paul Bignell, the singer of the band, to commission work for an album cover and promotional flyers that were required for the bands upcoming (and now released) album “Beyond the Door”.


That Boy And His Cow – Tres Mignon Project Information

Tres Mignon is French for “very cute” or “very small” depending on the translation. It’s an interactive project looking at sound proximity variables completed for a class that was taken in first year of University at RMIT. A colleague of mine, Elliot Condon and I worked on this together achieving a mark of HD+. Tres Mignon is an interactive presentation that was used to display an example of how Actionscript was used to alter the levels of sound from loud to soft depending on how
Read More …


Modernised Boat Launch & Retrieval – Boatcatch Project Information

Boatcatch is a coupling device that modernizes the launch and retrieval process of trailer boats. It allows you to quickly remove and replace your boat to and from its trailer without setting foot on a boat ramp or beach.

One of my all time favourite jobs to work on, simply due to the huge freedom of creativity allowed both with the approach to the work and also the vast range of particular requirements needed by the client.

Page 1 of 212