Pivoting with the times: a web development story

The last 12 months have been quite eventful for us at Cubedroute and in the excitement we've neglected our much loved website.  It's ok, there's a good reason for it, I promise. When we first setup Cubedroute our vision was to create an agency that stayed small and never moved into the area of factory-style production.

We ...

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Branding for non-profits and why its so important

With so many non-profits and charities competing with each other for attention and contributions, understanding what branding is and how to effectively use it is absolutely crucial for every non-profit organisation.

Alongside the barrage of junk mail through my front door every day I get a lot of solicitations from various charities.  And the reality is that more often than ...

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Grid structures in Web design

Problem:

a chaotic world in which parameters are always changing;
a need for control without being controlled;
a desire to find beauty and truth;
vast quantities of words and images that need to be placed on a page.....
The designer and the grid. by Lucienne Roberts, Julia Thrift

For anyone interested in learning about grids in design, this book is ...

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