About me
I’ve been a journalist since 1987, and live in West London with my wife and our two children (a boy, 3, and a girl, 6).

Design writing
I’ve been writing about design for nearly five years. Please take a look at my body of work.

My ventures

I run zyzzyva, a company that weds SEO and social media know-how with journalism and copywriting skills, to help design agencies extend their offering to clients. Corporate blogging and articles marketing are among our services.

I also run Sticky Clients, a service that creates personalized newspaper front pages as client gifts
for professional service businesses.

My blog (subscribe)

Planet Client is the only blog dedicated to helping businesses find clients, retain clients and understand clients’ needs. 

Among the most popular design blogposts are:

Client insight: Successful client relations

Client insight: Avoiding bad clients

Client insight: Winning clients’ attention

Client insight: Presenting to clients

Peril of lowering the bar on client quality in recession

More about me

To view more of my work as a freelance journalist, you can visit my personal website.

And if you have waaay to much time, you can read about some of my beer-fuelled escapades as a journalist in China in the early 1990s, in the much-missed Paul Ryder-Ryan’s China Daily: Between The Lines.