The Journey of the Inspire Labs Logo: Chapter Four

So here we are at the end of our (admittedly long) journey…
Before we get to the finished thing, we’ll have a look at the last few things I did to get there. This will involve playing with shapes, colours and a couple of fonts.
Actually, while we’re on the subject of fonts — I actually went [...]

Herzlich Wilkommen Pete!

We warmly welcome Pete to the team as our most recent new recruit. But what really makes him tick? Well, we’ve asked him and then we wrote a blog post about it.

Marine website set for smoother sailing

Over the last few weeks, IPC Digital Inspire has been focussing on some major SEO improvements for a certain website that sells boats…

The Journey of the Inspire Labs Logo: Chapter Three

We’re getting there. Finally.

The Journey of the Inspire Labs Logo: Chapter Two

In my last post, we looked at some initial sketches. Sketching is an important first step in any design as it allows for rapid creation and evolution of ideas. It also allows the rejection of any bad ideas before any time is invested producing mock-ups in Illustrator, Photoshop et al.

Out with the Old, In with the New

So Ladley decided to leave us. Boo! He’s a bit of a greedy guy that one; someone with a finger in almost every pie. From starting out as the Team Leader of the Southbank division he eventually ended up in the greatness that is Inspire. After nearly three years at IPC he heads for pastures [...]

The Journey of the Inspire Labs Logo: Chapter One

The journey of the Inspire Labs logo begins with some initial sketches and ideas.

YUI3: My First Experience

With the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) javascript library now the library of choice at IPC I thought it was about time to start playing with it.
Background to Javascript Frameworks
My first experience of a javascript library was to build a debug console for my framework. Version one of the console was built in jQuery (v1.2, I [...]

Pixelinx Framework

The Pixelinx Framework is something I’ve been having a play around with over the past year. It’s still in relatively early stages but it’s something I’m taking more seriously, and have recently open-sourced.
Take a look.

YAML Reference Card

Our projects contain a lot of configuration. So much, in fact, that our parsers have been struggling with the size of our files and causing sites to time out :s. Therefore, the exemplar team have created a reference YAML. We write some default configurations in our reference YAML and then our main configuration can use [...]