As an avid watcher of home-makeover shows I have noticed a new trend in TV shows. For years the focus has been on getting your home ready to sell and to make it as neutral as possible. Now that people are staying where they are because of the current economic climate the shows are concentrating on “turning your house into a home” and injecting some individuality into it.

I suppose working in a design studio does make you more adventurous in your decorating but our own house has always been full of colour and individuality. One of the bedrooms, which has been a children's bedroom over the years, has actually been decorated no less than five times in the twelve years that we've lived in the house – the quickest makeover being when we stapled animal print material to all the walls and completely transformed the room in one afternoon.

I come from a print background and moving from print to web has obvious differences; margins need to be tighter, screen dpi is smaller but the main challenge I discovered was designing with web standard fonts. In print I can use hundreds if not thousands of typefaces, in web I use Verdana, Arial and Georgia. Using the same three fonts day in day out is tiring, there's only so many times you can capitalise Verdana or underscore Arial. Having said that, 2009 is said to be the year of typography in web design, with many new techniques such as Typekit in development.