186: Mark Boulton | Embrace Change

Mark explains how he came to run a small design studio and book publishing company. He provides us with a set of practical design principles (from his handbook 5 simple steps) that he constantly comes back to, changes and refines when he's working on his own projects.
Web Designer and Founder of Mark Boulton Design & Five Simple Steps Publishing Mark is a designer, author, speaker and teacher from Wales.
Founder of the small design studio, Mark Boulton Design, he pushes pixels for the likes of Al Jazeera, CERN and ESPN, alongside that, he and his team publish books under the guise of Five Simple Steps – a small, scratchy independent publisher for web people.
Mark regularly speaks at web design and development conferences such as SXSW, An Event Apart and Web Directions South.
Despite living in Wales, Mark doesn’t own a smallholding, keep bees, or walk to work. But, he’s working on it.
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Recorded live at the global event in Cardigan, west Wales in 2013.
Watch Mark's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/mark-boulton-embrace-change