Darren Fisher, Creative Director at Pivale Drupal agency - a bearded man with dark hair and glasses.

Darren Fisher

Creative Director

Darren is our creative director, responsible for our design and frontend development team as well as managing the majority of our website and multisite builds. Darren is a graduate of the University for the Creative Arts achieving a bachelor's degree in Digital Screen Arts.

Articles by Darren

The Scream painting by Edvard Munch.
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Responsive Design Part 3: The seven deadly sins of responsive design

18 January, 2016
#Frontend

Responsive design can be good, but sometimes it can go bad and even ugly. We explore the 7 deadly sins of responsive design. It's not going to be pretty!.

A pile of twenty pound notes.
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Responsive Design Part 2: Why do I need responsive website design?

11 January, 2016
#Frontend

Responsive design isn't just a fad that will fade away. In fact it will make a tremendous difference to your online presence in ways you might not imagine.

A woman smiling whilst using an ipad.
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Responsive Design Part 1: What is responsive website design?

4 January, 2016
#Frontend

The first in our series on responsive web design and why you should care about it.

Left to right: Julia, Barry and Darren eating Real Life Digital branded cup cakes.
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Cody Technology Park Free Coffee & Cake Event

14 December, 2015
#Press

We moved on to Cody Technology Park back in August 2015 but still hadn't met a lot of other tenants so we decided to give away coffee and cake to meet people!

Two copies of Real Life Digital's branding documents - one closed showing the cover, and the other open showing the contents
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Why you need a Branding Document

4 November, 2015
#Advice
#User experience

Your brand is the face of your business, and you need to be thinking and laying down rules about how your brand is communicated to your customers.

The city of Barcelona from afar. The prominent and recognisable landmark La Sagrada Familia towers above the city.
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We went to DrupalCon 2015 in Barcelona

2 October, 2015
#Drupal
#Press

Once again we joined others in the Drupal community for the 2015 European Drupal convention which was held in the city of Barcelona in sunny Spain.

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Print to Web: A journey from graphic designer to website designer

3 March, 2015
#Drupal
#Frontend
#Insights

Six months ago our digital designer Darren was a stuck-in-a-rut print designer, utterly unaware of the opportunity that lurked just around the corner.

A man is holding a pen up to the camera and is in the process of snapping it in half.
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Design sign-off is dead

9 January, 2015
#Insights

We controversially suggest that design sign off is an archaic practice which has no place in modern web design and we think you'll agree after reading this.

Coloured pencils artfully placed together to forma a spiral.
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The flat design trend

29 October, 2014
#Insights
#User experience

Flat design. What is it? Where did it come from? Will it go away? What do I need to know? All is revealed in this end-to-end opinion piece.

An Amsterdam Panorama - the city from afar with water, land, boats, buildings and trees.
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We went to DrupalCon 2014 in Amsterdam

5 October, 2014
#Drupal
#Press

This year the Drupal community met in Amsterdam to make progress on Drupal 8, develop as coders and creatives, and of course just hang out and have fun!

Darren Fisher, Creative Director at Pivale digital transformation agency - a man with dark hair, a neat beard, moustache and glasses.

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