Frederick O'Brien
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The Guardian
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News Associates
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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
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