Andy Clarke
Creative Director & Lead UX Director
at Stuff & Nonsense
Web design inspiration from retro wrestling
Talk Synopsis
It’s something of a cliché that a generation of British kids grew up with an aunt or grandmother who’d be glued to the television set every Saturday watching teatime wrestling. But it’s also easy to underestimate just how popular British wrestling was in the 1970s and ’80s and how long before the popularity of American wrestling, the sport made household names of Dynamite Kid, Kendo Nagasaki, Mick McManus, Giant Haystacks, and “the people’s favorite” Big Daddy.
The spirit of retro wrestling posters isn’t trapped in the past. It’s alive and well when we use bold typography, confident color choices, and modular grids with a clear sense of hierarchy. Web design pioneer Andy Clarke steps into the ring to give us the lowdown.
About Andy Clarke
Andy Clarke is a pioneering website designer, speaker, and writer, based in Cymru/Wales. Andy founded Stuff & Nonsense, one of the best-known digital design studios, where he designed for Disney Store UK, Greenpeace, SunLife, and WWF. He’s written popular books on website design and development including ‘Art Direction for the Web<,’ ‘Hardboiled Web Design,’ and ‘Transcending CSS.’
Andy’s been called plenty of things since he started working on the web. His ego likes terms such as “Ambassador for CSS,” “industry prophet” and “inspiring,” but he’s most proud that Jeffrey Zeldman (the godfather of web standards) once called him a “triple-talented bastard.”
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