Professor Dave Mearns has written seven books on counselling and psychotherapy, including the best sellers ‘Person-Centred Counselling in Action’ and ‘Working at relational depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy’. His first fiction novel ‘Smoky Bacon Crisps: Finding the Edge of Life’ will be available later this year.
Go to darkpatterns.org and you’ll find an interesting presentation by Harry Brignull. He talks about unethical or dishonest user interfaces designed to trick people into doing things such as buying unneeded services, or help disguise recurrent payments as one-offs. He makes the interesting point that most professionals recognise the difference between good and bad practices when it comes to search engine optimisation (SEO), but not design. Time for an industry wide code of ethics to sit alongside web standards?
On a rain-swept night, Thomas Jaeger, a British agent, finds himself in a small hotel in Bosnia. He is burnt out, his life in ruins. The next day, two Austrian guests will visit a nearby town. Within four hours they will have been murdered. The town is Sarajevo. It is June 1914. “The Black Hand” is a new novel from bestselling author Anthony Conway.
Why producing ebooks can involve a lot of work. Work someone has to pay for.
I did the cover illustration a while back, but the Extreme Planets anthology will be published by Chaosium later this year.
I’ve been working on a lot of engineering and construction illustrations, so this makes a nice change. Not a cog, valve or pipe to be seen.
Just in time for Christmas is Nacci’s Numbers by Gerald Conheady, which would make a good present for the maths-loving boy or girl in your life. It’s an ebook so they’ll need a device to read it on, but someone else can buy that…
I’ve been working for engineering companies lately, finding ways to make big lumps of metal look good. Some are quite pretty in a sculptural way, but I’m not allowed to show them. So, here’s something in the same style I created between jobs.
I’m working on some illustrations that have a definite sixties modernist feel.
I’ve been working on a few projects but can’t talk about them yet. Hopefully I’ll have something interesting to share soon.