Creative Juices

I got my job at Big Lemon with no design degree and little experience – here’s how I did it I chose to do an illustration degree at the Cardiff School of Art and Design, because it’s what I enjoyed and what I was good at. I love illustration and I loved my degree, but it’s not the kind of course that gives you the pick of jobs. After attempting the freelance illustrator life – [Continue reading...]

Before we started Big Lemon, we were friends. We went to school together, got drunk together and grew up together – university, dogs, babies, the whole adulthood thing. After almost three years of running a business together we’ve had our fair share of disagreements, awkward moments and straightforward developer vs designer arguments but we’ve got through them all. To mark Na [Continue reading...]

I have a confession to make; I’m totally addicted to apps (cue Basshunter). Specifically, organizational apps. Trello, Slack, Wunderlist, Asana, I’ve tried them all and there isn’t one I met that I haven’t liked. If I want to check where I’m at with a piece of development I’ll pop to Trello, with its many delightfully colour-coded labels. If I want to nag Kieran about where a p [Continue reading...]

They say the sequel is almost always worse than the original. Not this time. Our second WordPress plugin, the ACF Page Builder, is here to conquer lands and… well, build pages. Alright, what is this ACF Page Builder? Simply put, it lets you easily build web page structures with a handful of useful layout types. This includes things like banner images, buttons, contact forms, a [Continue reading...]

Our first article on brewery websites was a cracker, so we wanted to open it up a little to the rest of the world. It's a big place, you know. As we look further afield, the scale of stand out brewery websites grows substantially (as there are literally thousands to choose from), by looking outside of the UK we can show you how other breweries worldwide are making their website [Continue reading...]

Building the new website for Beerd's new Craft Beer & Pizza joint in central Bristol was a new challenge for us - a challenge we absolutely loved. I mean, the research bit was easy (and perhaps too short), but actually getting stuck in and building the site was really fun too. We've wanted to build a brewery website for a while, so when this project came around we were made up [Continue reading...]

Welsh ICE is the first Innovation Centre for Enterprise in Wales - a startup community with private and co-working spaces to help businesses in South Wales grow. We're still unpacking our kit, but it already feels like home. A Little Background on Welsh Ice Any small businesses in South Wales should really be involved with Welsh ICE - it’s way more than just office space. The [Continue reading...]

Trying to find information on a desktop website using a device that’s a tenth of the size can be pretty annoying - regardless of how big mobile screens are getting. But bad UI aside, there is now a better reason to have a device responsive website. The Silicon Valley search engine giant has changed the way it ranks all websites in an event the tabloids are calling ‘Mobilegeddon [Continue reading...]

It's been a good few months coming, but we're delighted that our newly updated website is live with some nice additions. While this blog post might seem a little self-gratifying, that is not its intended purpose. We want to show you around our new digital abode and get your feedback. As part of this rebirth, we've completely revamped our home page, each of our work project page [Continue reading...]

We've created a list of upcoming web design trends that we think'll be kicking around in 2015. Make sure to let us know on Twitter what your predictions are! Flat Design - the crux of current web design trends If you were to compare websites designed now to those created a few years ago you'd notice a huge difference between them. Older websites dominantly relied on bright tra [Continue reading...]

So, the website is live.. Progress feels fantastic! It's really nice to finally be able to tell people "Yeah, go check out our website!" high five For the last few months we've poured every inch into our logo and its 100+ iterations and frantically working towards the website's launch, and we can gladly say we're now there. You'll also notice by now that we have a blog (especia [Continue reading...]