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Jul 12, 2025•45 min•Ep. 132
Unfinished Business
Andy Clarke and Richard Rutter have Unfinished Business.
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Andy Clarke and Richard Rutter have Unfinished Business
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I’m your host, Andy Clarke , and I’m writing a Hardboiled Web Design book about Art Directing for the Web. You can find out more about that at stuffandnonsense.co.uk/books . Over the next few weeks and months, I’ll be discussing art directing for web with my guests, some of the most experienced art directors and designers working on the web today. In this episode, Rob Weychert and I discuss Art Directing the Web. Sponsor : This season of Unfinished Business is proudly sponsored by CoffeeCup Soft...
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Art Directing the Web with Stephen Hay
I’m your host, Andy Clarke , and I’m writing a Hardboiled Web Design book about Art Directing for the Web. You can find out more about that at stuffandnonsense.co.uk/books . Over the next few weeks and months, I’ll be discussing art directing for web with my guests, some of the most experienced art directors and designers working on the web today. In this episode, Stephen Hay and I discuss Art Directing the Web. Sponsor : This season of Unfinished Business is proudly sponsored by CoffeeCup Softw...
May 21, 2018•50 min•Ep. 127
Art Directing the Web with David Sleight
I’m your host, Andy Clarke , and I’m writing a Hardboiled Web Design book about Art Directing for the Web. You can find out more about that at stuffandnonsense.co.uk/books . Over the next few weeks and months, I’ll be discussing art directing for web with my guests, some of the most experienced art directors and designers working on the web today. In this episode, David Sleight and I discuss Art Directing the Web. Sponsor : This season of Unfinished Business is proudly sponsored by CoffeeCup Sof...
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I’m your host, Andy Clarke , and I’m writing a Hardboiled Web Design book about Art Directing for the Web. You can find out more about that at stuffandnonsense.co.uk/books . Over the next few weeks and months, I’ll be discussing art directing for web with my guests, some of the most experienced art directors and designers working on the web today. In this episode, Rachel Andrew and I discuss Art Directing the Web and CSS Grid. Sponsor : This season of Unfinished Business is proudly sponsored by ...
Apr 23, 2018•49 min•Ep. 125
Art Directing the Web with Dan Mall
I’m your host, Andy Clarke , and I’m writing a Hardboiled Web Design book about Art Directing for the Web. You can find out more about that at stuffandnonsense.co.uk/books . Over the next few weeks and months, I’ll be discussing art directing for web with my guests, some of the most experienced art directors and designers working on the web today. In this episode, Dan Mall and I discuss Art Directing the Web. Sponsor : This season of Unfinished Business is proudly sponsored by CoffeeCup Software...
Apr 09, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 124
Art Directing the Web with Mark Porter
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Mar 26, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 123
The new Doctor Who episode
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Mar 20, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 122
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I’m warning you now, it’s a very different kind of episode of Unfinished Business this week as Rachel Andrew and I talk about our feelings on the referendum result for the UK to leave the EU. We talk about the issues that will affect us, you and our businesses in the coming months and years and what we’re already doing to help mitigate them. Look, if you’re outside the UK, you might find our points of view interesting and different from what you’ve heard before. If you’re as angry and saddened b...
Jun 28, 2016•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 121
‘Working on your dad bod’ with James Seymour-Lock
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May 30, 2016•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 120
‘The Meta Is In Title Case’ with Espen Brunborg and Joe Leech
In this, the first part of the Unfinished Business Bank Holiday double, I’m joined by Espen Brunborg , designer and co-founder of Primate, plus Strategic Commander of User Experience and author of ‘Psychology for Designers’ Joe Leech . It’s more of a work related episode and we talk about; developing content for clients, why you should do your own research and not believe that everything you read on the internet, and whether you should get involved in competitive pitching and tendering? Some lin...
May 30, 2016•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 119
‘A bit of Capability Brown’ with Sean Johnson and Drew McLellan
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Apr 28, 2016•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 118
‘Buttered someone to death’ with Mr Bingo
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Oct 06, 2015•59 min•Ep. 117
‘A million Euros to Ireland’ with Rachel Andrew and Richard Rutter
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Sep 09, 2015•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 116
‘Extreme tool anxiety’ with Brad Frost and Stephen Hay
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Aug 24, 2015•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 115
‘Fair cop guv’’ with Dan Edwards and Daniel Mall
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Aug 10, 2015•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 114
‘Dicking around with an algorithm’ with Cennydd Bowles and Noah Stokes
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Jul 20, 2015•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 113
‘Meaty Parts’ with House Of Fools’ Ellie White
Ellie and I talk about her Fringe and what it’s like to get a big break on a show like ‘House Of Fools.’ We discuss improv, stand-up performances and comedy clubs and whether she should watch ‘Carry On’ films. Ellie’s charming and funny and I really enjoyed talking with her. Even if you’ve not seen ‘House Of Fools,’ you’ll really like this episode. Some links from this episode Ellie White on Twitter Ellie on IMDB Children of Herne House of Fools House of Fools on BBC Onion Talking: Dan Skinner, ...
Jul 01, 2015•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 112
‘I got no beef with the Turks’ with Brendan Dawes and Aaron Draplin
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Jun 21, 2015•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 111
‘That pig was a good influence’ with Jeremy Keith and Jeffrey Zeldman
Last week was Jeffrey Zeldman ’s website’s 20th birthday, so this week he joins me and Jeremy Keith on Unfinished Business 110 to talk about the anniversary. We start by discussing Jeremy’s 100 words for 100 days writing project and how it’s inspired me to change the way that I think about writing on our blog and posting to our portfolio. We talk about the importance of writing for yourself as well as for others and why writing on your own website is important. With it being the twentieth annive...
Jun 08, 2015•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 110
‘Management advice from Don Draper’ with Jen Simmonds and Mad Men’s Allan Havey
This week is a special Mad Men episode of Unfinished Business and I’m joined live from New York by Jen Simmons –the incredible host of The Web Ahead podcast –and our very special guest, the actor and comedian who plays Lou Avery on TV’s Mad Men, Allan Havey . We talk, of course, about Mad Men, its final season and the recent show finale. So if you haven’t seen Don Draper fall out of a McCann Erickson window yet, there are spoilers galore. We discuss Lou, his character and how the show’s audience...
May 27, 2015•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 109
‘I want Action, Man’ with Aarron Walter and Jared Spool
I imagine if I told people in advance that I was talking to director of UX at MailChimp Aarron Walter and Founder of User Interface Engineering Jared Spool on Unfinished Business this week , they’d imagine we’d talk about user experience design and possibly education. Instead, they and I talk about action figures and Action Man and whether fighting Nazis is cooler than fighting aliens. It’s not all Smurfs and Stretch Armstrong though, because we also discuss the art of public speaking, how to pr...
May 17, 2015•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 108
‘Tom Hanks, what a let down’ with Andy Budd and Cameron Moll
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May 11, 2015•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 107
‘Everyone else’s highlight reel’ with Dan Edwards and Veerle Pieters
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Apr 20, 2015•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 106
‘Seventeen coats of bullshit’ with Dan Mall and Jeffrey Zeldman
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Apr 07, 2015•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 105
‘The taco incident’ with Trent Walton and Stephen Hay
The best podcasts listen to interesting people having interesting conversations about work, and life and for episode 104 of Unfinished Business I’m joined by two fascinating folk. Trent Walton and Stephen Hay . In a lively and wide-ranging conversation, we talk about ‘designing in a browser’ and whether or not today it’s a given (to some degree or another.) We discuss not showing clients static design visuals and why ‘comps’ in a browser and prototypes should be the first thing that we show our ...
Mar 23, 2015•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 104
‘House of Fools’ with Paul Boag and Jon Hicks
Back for episode 103 of Unfinished Business is my favourite comedy duo, ‘Pipe and Pyjamas,’ Paul Boag and Jon Hicks . We had a list of things that we weren’t allowed to talk about, a list that was surprisingly topped by Dr. Who, food and bicycles. Instead we discuss about Paul’s green screen, his motorhome and why he left Headscape , the company he founded thirteen years ago. We end up talking about how we’re redefining our places in the web industry as the three of us get older. In the after-sh...
Mar 09, 2015•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 103
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