.about {

My names is Mez Hopking (or according to my passport: Meredith Jacob Francis Hopking... but what does it know?) I design things and I design them to look beautiful and to be functional.

I live and work in Bournemouth, which is in the beautiful county of Dorset, right next to the world renowned sandy beaches.

When not working flat out running my own business, you can usually find me down the local pub or sipping lattes in Nero or dreaming about how I can change the world and what my next money making project will be.

Either that or I'll be out and about shooting the world with my camera - occasionally publishing some of the better stuff on my photoblog mezhopking.com.

Interests

Interests, interests, interests. Got too many of them to list here... oh if you insist:
graphic design, product design and packaging, web design and development, web standards, advertising, photography, photographs, architecture, design, furniture, conceptural cars, the universe, the earth, nature, big cats, wolves, reading, magazines, coffee and cigarttes, art house films, new music, squash, john peel (we've lost a true legend), the bbc, snow and ice, sunny days, christmas, technology, michael palin, new science, david attenborough, whisky, the mind, intelligence, good conversation, france, italy, french & italitan food, european cities and getting lost in them, skimming stones, climbing trees, laughing and travel. You get the picture...

This site

This site was built with love and care. I designed it using pens, paper, Photoshop & Illustrator. I built it, hand coded, using Dreamweaver & BBEdit.

The aesthetically pleaseing typography dotted about the site (titles etc) is done using sIFR (using Flash), coupled with the use of various weights of the Helvetica Neue font.
The Journal is running off a Wordpress 2.04 installation, with a few plugins.