Frederick O'Brien

Cold, distant, otherwise perfect

Work

Black and white photograph of a chalkboard

News Associates

Data journalism lecturing

The Guardian

Gonzo engineering

Sketch of web design layout

Smashing Magazine

World wide writing

Play

Screenshot of outline cards on teeline.online

teeline.online

A (short)handy site

Black and white photograph of old newspapers strewn across the floor

The Whale-Lines

Collage of albums reviewed by Audioxide

Audioxide

The 404th most trusted voice in music

Writings

MDX or: how I learned to stop worrying and love multimedia writing

Smashing Magazine , 2024-06-21

‘In the sixth-richest country in the world, how can you build a welfare state on food banks?’ The stats that reveal just how widespread food poverty is in the UK

Byline Times , 2024-06-18

Zen and the art of pet project maintainence

Weblog , 2024-05-12

Growing like a weed

Bluedot Living , 2024-04-19

Designing web design documentation

Smashing Magazine , 2023-11-13

The gods will offer you chances

Weblog , 2023-11-05

What Leonardo da Vinci can teach us about web design

Smashing Magazine , 2023-03-15

Galaxies of the Guardian: the formation of an irregular org chart

The Guardian , 2023-02-03

Web design done well: delightful data visualisation examples

Smashing Magazine , 2022-06-16

Web design done well: perfectly pointless

Smashing Magazine , 2022-02-11

Rock Against Racism: the concert in Victoria Park that united a nation

Roman Road LDN , 2021-11-05

Hired Tunes: anatomy of a James Bond song

The Quietus , 2021-10-03

Web design done well: excellent editorial

Smashing Magazine , 2021-09-10

How we backfilled the Guardian’s in-house analytics tool to provide greater journalistic insight

The Guardian , 2021-07-12

Web design done well: making use of audio

Smashing Magazine , 2021-06-11