Mark Boulton Design

People

We’re six people who care about the web and good design. We’re not into buzzwords or chasing the competition; we just want to do a great job and have fun whilst we’re at it.

We run workshops and have spoken at many web conferences all over the world such as Drupalcon, SXSWi, Future of Web Design, Web Directions South, Build and @media.

We write for some of the industry's most notable publications; A List Apart, 24ways, Think Vitamin, .net Magazine. Scratching our own itch to create beautiful, useful and simple books for the web professional, we also write books and publish them under our Imprint Five Simple Steps.

Place

Penarth is a little town on the South Coast of Wales close to Cardiff. Just a short two hour train ride from London, South Wales has it all: thriving cities, mountain air, beautiful beaches and thriving victorian seaside towns. This is where we work.

Huddled away in a renovated coachhouse, we work on stuff that excites us; for clients and for ourselves. Constantly striving to create the most creative working environment – from a constant supply of fruit, to a company Modern Warfare 2 clan – we believe a great workplace equals happy people which equals good work. It’s a simple formula and our clients benefit.

Site

This site is built with loving care, spit and polish and the help of these bits of software:

Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management platform. We like Drupal. Over the past eighteen months, we've helped the Drupal Association and community make their website look better and their software easier to use. So, we have a somewhat special relationship with the software.

Typekit

We use Typekit to typeset the content in Proxima Nova and FF Tisa Web Pro, for those browsers capable of importing fonts using @font-face. We love Typekit. It's changing typography on the web.