I created a mobile gateway for the Irish Times website. This was originally a favour for my girlfriend who has recently gotten addicted to her Nokia E51, but I figure it might be useful to other people too. There are plenty of great news sites that provide decent mobile phone versions of their content but apparently the Irish Times are still think mobile content begins and ends with SMS alerts and *spit* i-mode.

There are a couple of pages involved here:
http://heavyheavy.com/it/ – “breaking news”
http://heavyheavy.com/it/today.php – today’s paper, split into sections.

If you have any comments/suggestions, email me at johnke@gmail.com

Disclaimer: all content remains © irishtimes.com. This service is provided until the Irish Times website provide a decent alternative themselves. Oh, and while we’re at it, could the web team also please sort up their typography so I don’t have to create my own stylesheet to make their articles look less assy? Thx.

Small print advertisment which ran in the Roman Forum.

Here’s a wonderful interview with Brad Bird, the director of The Iron Giant, The Incredibles and Ratatouille who was hired by Steve Jobs to ’shake things up’ within Pixar, to keep things fresh. The whole thing is full of “Chicken Soup for the Soul” anecdotes for creativity. Here’s one of my favourites:

The first step in achieving the impossible is believing that the impossible can be achieved. … You don’t play it safe—you do something that scares you, that’s at the edge of your capabilities, where you might fail. That’s what gets you up in the morning.

They say a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. And I guess that also means every blog has to start somewhere. So here we go.

heavyheavy is a technical and creative consultancy, but what exactly do we mean by that? Well, it means that we do a lot of work with computers. And, unlike most other consultancies, we don’t just focus on one aspect. We’re equally happy poking around UNIX systems as we are with Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. This means that when it comes to websites, we can take care of everything, from development right through to deployment.

As well as giving us a place to highlight the work we do, this blog is also a place for us to comment on the things we’re interested in – including design, movies and “new media”.