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simon collison home i m currently available for new design exploration direction projects please drop me a line simon collison well meaning waffle since 2003 home journal work about hello i m a designer writer artist and musician but who am i really 1973 nottingham born chubby and quiet good at drawing it s always sunny 1980s there is football 1 there is pop and soft rock there are national parks there is nature 2 there are birds and then there is teen age i get this feeling i m in motion a sudden sense of liberty 3 1987 the world opens up paintings from the 50s new landscapes 4 down the way the road s divided paint me the places you ve seen 5 1990 identity the past was yours but the future s mine 6 i m me and nobody else and whatever people think i am or say i am that s what i m not 7 1993 the north art school all these accidents that happen follow the dot 8 graduate gravitate to london and i d like to just continue to be able to express myself 9 1998 to reykjavík it is raw 10 art land music life briefly heima iceland has offered a new beginning ágætis byrjun 11 home 2000 buy a computer 12 seduced by the web as a creative space caught between art and online html css cms obsess build play experiment 13 transition transmission 14 2002 opportunity web designer finally a real job 15 bearface 16 right place right time blog v1 clients recognition 2006 published 17 my own agency 18 a year in deep frieze 19 employees stress bye dad inquisitive what relevance old ideas art travel speaking conferences blog v4 20 new adventures 21 2011 nyc through the underground underneath the sky scrapes 22 always anxious 23 always adding weight it wasn t like a rain it was more like a sea 24 make the change make less noise open a space into which love can flow half of my life i ve been waking up 25 2013 engaged forty our love is like the flowers the rain the sea and the hours 26 2014 married life is shared newfoundland we fall for cities 27 learn to run mental salvation half marathon i fill my mind with ecology philosophy and oh so much art music poetry 28 2017 clarity and realignment i m writing again there is much work to be done new adventures returns 29 2022 a new outlet decades of ideas coalesce site nonsite hiroshima ep 30 that was the beginning hello i m simon footnotes related article on this site external site return to text football notts county music my taste ranged from queen to kim wilde i was also a member of the heart fanclub i loved the peak district like other kids loved theme parks no car so we d go by bus i was an obsessive birder new order true faith the album substance changed my world peter lanyon and the st ives artists but also the abstract expressionists r e m maps and legends the stone roses she bangs the drums alan sillitoe saturday night and sunday morning set in my hometown björk joga dj shadow building steam i first went to iceland in 1998 as an artist in residence returning frequently sigur rós ágætis byrjun a late starter my first proper computer was an indigo imac g3 my first big project was you are here a popular online network for local artists david bowie tvc15 i had a revelation about the web while bathing under the weather project by olafur eliasson after years working in shops and bars i joined agenzia ltd as a designer dev he was being abused by a neighbour he started visiting me and i adopted him co authored some books wrote my own beginning css web development erskine design llp single handedly rebuilt and redesigned frieze and frieze art fair websites much admired and copied i was fortunate to speak all over the world mostly between 2009 and 2013 the fourth version of this site was a popular responsive design new adventures conference beastie boys root down i was in ny a lot working on a digital music project and later as a partner of fictive kin i struggled with generalised anxiety ate a lot and neglected to exercise the national pink rabbits the walkmen while i shovel the snow we were engaged in lisbon new order the village my wife s family are from st john s we also love copenhagen tokyo stockholm montreal hiroshima timothy morton being ecological frank ocean blonde after a six year hiatus we returned in 2019 and again in 2020 on may 6th 2022 at age 48 i released music for the first time an ep my love letter to hiroshima i wrote about this timeline all albums and songs featured in a spotify playlist follow me or email links for my personal accounts follow site nonsite links for my music art projects subscribe i ll send you something every once in a while enter your email now powered by buttondown miss the old site v4 design is archived here don t make that masterpiece go away we have so little left of what was glorious zeldman 2003 2026 simon collison rss feed built with kirby tracked with fathom hosted by guru buy me a coffee or donate versioned with github find me on mastodon books linked may earn a commission from indie supporting bookshop org visit my book store