Hello. I'm Richard Hinchcliffe. I'm a freelance digital designer & I spend my days doing 3D visualisations, motion graphics and web design and build for people - and those people nearly always say "Wow, that's really good. Thanks Rich!"

The ones that didn't say that just had bad taste. When I'm not doing designy stuff I also try find time to write this blog, rustle up the odd tutorial and make things that some folks might find useful. That's the short version of my day-to-day existence - you can read the verbose and meandering version here, or just take a look at some of the projects I've worked on.

Latest Projects & Blog

new project

Property Investment Presentation Animations

Epileptic Origami

Tiger in the Park

CMYK

Online Advertising Promo Video

Shatter – a Rayfire Test

Over Exposure

The Magician

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A Good Spam Squisher

In this case the spam squisher in question is called Simple Spam Filter for WordPress, and so far it’s been more effective at eliminating cerain types of spam to my blog than any other plugin.

i-to-i website illustrations

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FreshBooks adds Google Checkout support

After much deliberation about whether or not to use one of the many fancy online invoicing apps available to make my life that little bit easier, I ended up giving FreshBooks a go…

Guilt Tripping

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Picasa Photo Viewer

What is Picasa Photo Viewer? Well, like it says on the screen shot down below it’s a fast, powerful image viewer for viewing image and photos directly from Windows Explorer.

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WP Admin Quicklinks Plugin

WP Admin Quicklinks is a very simple little WordPress plugin I wrote that adds an intelligent, unobtrusive little admin panel to the top-right of all your site’s pages and posts.

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Alternatives to Lorem Ipsum

If you’ve been designing web or print for any amount of time, chances are you’ve used your fair share of Lorem dummy text. Chances are you’re also probably getting a little bored of it – and who doesn’t like a little choice these days anyway.