Following the closure of The Guild Coworking in Bath, tallhatDesign has relocated to 1-4 Daniel Mews, Bathwick, Bath BA2 6NG – home of Mytton Williams, and round the corner from the Holburne Museum. Please come and say hello, there is meeting space, coffee, and on a warm day maybe even a swift half in the …more
tallhatDesign has created a number of new websites over the last few months. From the charity sector – the Museum of Bath at Work, to a company right at the heart of the European energy trading market, Equias.org – as always the variety keeps things interesting. In most cases I have project managed and provided …more
David Hawcock is a leading paper engineer, and has been a client of tallhatDesign for over a decade. In January he was due to appear on BBC1’s primetime business pitch programme Dragons’ Den with a Pop-up Chess Set he’d invented. We knew we’d need to carefully consider the website hosting and plan for this event. …more
At tallhatDesign, we had the privilege of rebranding and relaunching noelgay.com in 2022. We played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s new brand identity and creating a modern and user-friendly website. During the rebranding phase, we worked closely with the client to understand their vision and goals for the brand. We helped them to …more
“He’s just rounded the Lizard!” The great thing about being web designer is the fun projects that sometimes come along. Where you get to learn new things and help out in some way with someone’s project. A couple of years ago I started building a site for a friend who was retiring from the Fire …more
tallhatDesign was instrumental in the launch of twentyfifty.co.uk in 2021. We were involved early on in a re-branding project, and then the build of the multi-lingual website and training of internal staff to manage content and layouts in English and German. New developments for the site are underway for 2022. Another website and branding project …more
Website design, with its usability factors and functionality, can be a tricky business. There’s a lot to think about and juggle, from branding and the ‘graphic design’ side of things, to SEO, to mobile and touch device testing, to conversion rates and ‘reducing friction’. If you’re designing for a medium or large organisation you’re likely …more
2019 was a busy year. A new tallhat.com website is underway but in the meantime I thought I’d post a few new projects that have been delivered recently. Some of these have yet to make it to the portfolio… Farmhouse A brand new hotel in the Catskills (up-state New York) – tallhatDesign designed and built …more
New website design and build for The Filter (also based at the Guild coworking) https://thefilter.com
I spent a long time trying to find a simple way to batch (bulk) convert .pages files to PDFs on a mac. There were a few Applescript examples online, but I couldn’t get anything working with a simple drag and drop compiled app. Perhaps older Applescript versions that were no longer working with High Sierra? …more
Delighted to have been asked to design and produce the official ‘Owls of Bath’ website for this new event (from the ‘Pigs and Lions’ team). Also produced video content for this at short notice. The website will evolve over the year as the event develops and artists produce their creations for the ‘trail’. minervasowls.org
Requirement: To design and produce a new responsive WordPress website integrated with the business back-office software (Expert Agent), branding and messaging concepts, signage, new PDF templates for online brochures. Deliverables: Website design visuals; build and project management (WordPress), campaign strategy, branding elements, signage artwork, graphic design. Next Steps: Roll out of further branding elements e.g. …more
Requirement: To design and produce a new responsive portfolio WordPress website. Deliverables: Website design visuals; build and project management (WordPress), before-and-after image setup, CMS training and handover. Next Steps: Expanding the projects portfolio Website: www.nickshipp.com
We don’t just do corporate design and websites, here’s a showreel of some of the ‘fun stuff’ – animated content, game development, plus some concept work and personal projects Clients included: BBC/Ecowatch, Nobok (Sports), Festo, Lloyds TSB, Adidas, Orange
I needed some hand-drawn style vector arrows for a project and ended up creating my own. I’ve put them here for free downloading in case they’re useful to anyone else: PDF: 738kb file https://tallhat.com/downloads/vector-hand-drawn-arrows.pdf Adobe Illustrator: 1.7mb file (CS6 format) https://tallhat.com/downloads/vector-hand-drawn-arrows.ai
tallhatDesign has been shortlisted for the ‘Best Designer’ category in the 2017 Creative Bath Awards to be held on 8 June. There is some tough competition in this category, with some talented people on the list. Let’s see what happens! See the full list of finalists. Good luck all – quite a few friends and …more
I was asked to collate a selection of vector illustrations I’d created for various projects, and thought I’d make these available here. See below (click to enlarge), or visit tallhat.com/vector-illustration [ngg_images gallery_ids=”5″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_pro_masonry” size=”210″ padding=”18″]
This is a bit of a technical article for me (I’m no server wizard), so please excuse any misunderstandings/misuse of terminology on my part. I’ve finally got my VPS hosting working with nginx and WordPress, which, looking at various articles online, can be tricky in a lot of cases. The main reason for doing this of course is …more
I’ve only recently switched to using Gmail for my main email account, and am benefitting on a few fronts e.g. spam reduction, the handy “promotions” tab, better/easier filtering and so on. One thing that really annoyed my though were the font-sizes when viewing emails and typing replies. The “settings” for the Gmail web interface leaves …more
tallhatDesign was approached to create a new website for ‘The Dire Straits Experience’ – a band containing several original members of Dire Straits and recreating the sound and live experience of this hugely popular group. A key aim was to make use of tour photography to get across the energy and scale of the live …more