Image copyright: Andreas MB Lee Newham is a senior designer at London-based design consultancy, P&W. He receives around three or four CVs (resumés) every day, and here he details some tips on how graphic designers can get those CVs to the top of the pile. CV tips for graphic designers 99% of C...

Back in the summer of ‘05, I put up a post that ran down a list of all the cars I’ve owned. Since then I’ve added one more car to that list. Since it’s giving me trouble lately I thought I’d copy over and update the original vehicular C.V. and add a few more words of wo...

I’ve been revising my freelance writing and editing site. Part of this refresh will include a new résumé that better reflects my more recent work history and emphasis. I’m putting that résumé online temporarily for open critique. It’s a bit bolder and less “common”-...

Score one for “old school� on the Theremin – minus one for “old school� on the Minimoog keyboard. There’s plenty of debate about whether or not you can justify splurging on the extra cash for the Moog name on synths and effects – no one questions Moog’s quality, but there is other gr...

In the name of research I have decided to send my CV to a cross-section of different industry people for their views and post their advice on this blog - see my earlier post on the problems of CV writing for journalists. [View the current state of my CV at this link] Crit #1 It’s always nice t...

Musical Applications for Multi-Touch Interfaces from BricK Table on Vimeo. Across series of colored bars, sounds warp and mutate. Vines entangle as organic threads of music. Fingers and objects traverse sonic landscapes in surprising, mysterious ways. Welcome to the worlds of BricK, the musical tabl...

Al op jonge leeftijd zag hij de waanzin van de oorlog in. Zo weigerde hij te vechten in het verre Nederlands Oost-Indië. Tot zijn eigen verbazing werd hij buitengewoon dienstplichtig verklaard. Veel later, in 1975, werd hij benoemd tot hoogleraar aan de Koninklijke Militaire Academie in Breda. Daar...

The Citroen 2 CV and the Solex are icons of the 50's and 60's in France and Europe at leastThey would take you from point A to point B in a practical if not luxurious way. The 'Bastille Day' Rendez-Vous kicks off at 10:00 am at Grant's Tomb (Riverside Drive and 122nd St) on July 13 in New York. Chec...

Heb je binnenkort een belangrijke sollicitatie en wil je daarbij op een originele en opvallende manier naar voren komen? Geïnspireerd door collegabloggers Nigel James en Roo Reynolds besloot ik mijn CV in Wordle te gooien, een programma dat een tagcloud genereert op basis van een ingevoerde tekst. ...

Now, I'm not one for a lot of self publicity (well, I don't think I am).  However, I do want to mention what we've been up to with UKRecruiterJobs.co.uk since our launch a couple of months back. We've had a great response from people within the UK Recruiter community.  The launch of a job ...