Paul Robert Lloyd
@paulrobertlloyd.com
Independent graphic designer and web developer · Moving slowly and fixing things
Delivering a small Indiekit-shaped Christmas present, with a new beta release that includes some quality-of-life improvements alongside localisation for Brazilian Portuguese. Feliz Natal! https://github.com/getindiekit/indiekit/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.25
December 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Delivering a small Indiekit-shaped Christmas present, with a new beta release that includes some quality-of-life improvements alongside localisation for Brazilian Portuguese. Feliz Natal! https://github.com/getindiekit/indiekit/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.25
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#TheBeautyOfTransport is looking at the newly unveiled GBR branding - not just what it is, but how we ended up with it, and how far it will actually spread. It's a long article this time, so plenty to keep you going over the holidays. Season's Greetings!
Union Flag Blues: the Branding of Great British Railways
In a blaze of publicity, the branding for Great British Railways, state-owned future operator of some of the privatised British railway network, was unexpectedly launched earlier this month, a mere four years after Great British Railways was first announced. In typical British transport policy tradition, the government almost immediately undermined its own efforts to create a unifying visual identity for the English railway network, having long since ceded the battle to brand the British railway network.
thebeautyoftransport.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#TheBeautyOfTransport is looking at the newly unveiled GBR branding - not just what it is, but how we ended up with it, and how far it will actually spread. It's a long article this time, so plenty to keep you going over the holidays. Season's Greetings!
Getting close to completing the fourth and final section of Bradshaw’s Guide. As of today, you can now find descriptions for all 1338 towns and cities published in the 1866 edition. Next up; adding the final set of routes and stations. https://bradshaws.guide/places
December 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Getting close to completing the fourth and final section of Bradshaw’s Guide. As of today, you can now find descriptions for all 1338 towns and cities published in the 1866 edition. Next up; adding the final set of routes and stations. https://bradshaws.guide/places
Completed it mate. www.spartan.com/en/deka/strong
December 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Completed it mate. www.spartan.com/en/deka/strong
DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH, LANDO NORRIS! WORLD CHAMPION! 🏆
December 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH, LANDO NORRIS! WORLD CHAMPION! 🏆
I have re-watched Die Hard and can confirm: it is a Christmas movie (no matter what the British public may think). www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
Survey also reveals Britons’ favourite festive film, views on tear-jerkers and family cinema trips
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I have re-watched Die Hard and can confirm: it is a Christmas movie (no matter what the British public may think). www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
I absolutely bloody love Haim, and they didn’t disappoint this evening.
October 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I absolutely bloody love Haim, and they didn’t disappoint this evening.
Enjoyed drinks and a curry in Birmingham this evening alongside 6 familiar faces to celebrate an astonishing anniversary; 20 years ago this month, 4 web developers met in Walsall, and the Multipack was born. https://lloydyweb.paulrobertlloyd.com/blog/2005/10/the_we_in_web
October 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Enjoyed drinks and a curry in Birmingham this evening alongside 6 familiar faces to celebrate an astonishing anniversary; 20 years ago this month, 4 web developers met in Walsall, and the Multipack was born. https://lloydyweb.paulrobertlloyd.com/blog/2005/10/the_we_in_web
The concourse at Euston station is now a festival of Rail Alphabet 2. Move beyond that… well, God knows what font has been chosen for the gantries above the approaches to platforms (which still use NR Brunel). One day there might be some visual coherence on the railway, but today is not that day.
October 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The concourse at Euston station is now a festival of Rail Alphabet 2. Move beyond that… well, God knows what font has been chosen for the gantries above the approaches to platforms (which still use NR Brunel). One day there might be some visual coherence on the railway, but today is not that day.
Caught up with the Apple Event. Took me 30 minutes to realise I was watching last year’s event.
September 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Caught up with the Apple Event. Took me 30 minutes to realise I was watching last year’s event.
Probably the last post-work rays of sunlight for 2025.
September 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Probably the last post-work rays of sunlight for 2025.
The GOV.UK Eleventy Plugin is helping teams across central government focus on writing content instead of writing code. So I made a version for teams working in the NHS too. x-govuk.github.io/posts/nhsuk-...
Twice as nice: Introducing the NHS.UK Eleventy Plugin
With the NHS.UK Eleventy Plugin you can focus on writing content instead of writing code.
x-govuk.github.io
September 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The GOV.UK Eleventy Plugin is helping teams across central government focus on writing content instead of writing code. So I made a version for teams working in the NHS too. x-govuk.github.io/posts/nhsuk-...
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Something I and many others in the NHS have spent months working on has just gone live, a big update to design system and frontend! 🎉
See service-manual.nhs.uk/design-syste... for the changes.
Not super glamorous work, but it helps improve the foundations for our digital services.
See service-manual.nhs.uk/design-syste... for the changes.
Not super glamorous work, but it helps improve the foundations for our digital services.
Updating to version 10 - NHS digital service manual
In August 2025, we released version 10 of the design system and NHS.UK frontend library with new features, updates and bug fixes.
service-manual.nhs.uk
August 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Something I and many others in the NHS have spent months working on has just gone live, a big update to design system and frontend! 🎉
See service-manual.nhs.uk/design-syste... for the changes.
Not super glamorous work, but it helps improve the foundations for our digital services.
See service-manual.nhs.uk/design-syste... for the changes.
Not super glamorous work, but it helps improve the foundations for our digital services.
I found a Benchmark. Harder to find than I thought it would be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWxX...
August 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I found a Benchmark. Harder to find than I thought it would be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWxX...
Tonight I watched Nye at the National Theatre, a play about the life (and death) of NHS founder, Aneurin Bevan. Beautiful and haunting, the very last scene completely broke me. Forget ten year plans; Nye had a vision, and he absolutely delivered on it.
July 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Tonight I watched Nye at the National Theatre, a play about the life (and death) of NHS founder, Aneurin Bevan. Beautiful and haunting, the very last scene completely broke me. Forget ten year plans; Nye had a vision, and he absolutely delivered on it.
Many years ago I read about Book Mountain, a curious pyramid-shaped library in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands. Today I finally stepped inside. https://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/04/book-mountain-library-pyramid-by-mvrdv/
May 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Many years ago I read about Book Mountain, a curious pyramid-shaped library in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands. Today I finally stepped inside. https://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/04/book-mountain-library-pyramid-by-mvrdv/
Good services are verbs.
Bad services are nouns.
AI services are whimsical, opaque or vAPId. https://ai.gov.uk/projects/
Bad services are nouns.
AI services are whimsical, opaque or vAPId. https://ai.gov.uk/projects/
May 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Good services are verbs.
Bad services are nouns.
AI services are whimsical, opaque or vAPId. https://ai.gov.uk/projects/
Bad services are nouns.
AI services are whimsical, opaque or vAPId. https://ai.gov.uk/projects/
I’m not convinced that the designer of a $10,000 gold watch (now obsolete), who gets driven around in the back of a Bentley, and who spends his spare time in coffee shops ‘inventing the future’ with the likes of Sam Altman, is capable of designing products for the rest of us.
May 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I’m not convinced that the designer of a $10,000 gold watch (now obsolete), who gets driven around in the back of a Bentley, and who spends his spare time in coffee shops ‘inventing the future’ with the likes of Sam Altman, is capable of designing products for the rest of us.
Happy M&S cyber incident update day for those who celebrate.
May 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Happy M&S cyber incident update day for those who celebrate.
If everything is working correctly, this is the first post from my website syndicated to Bluesky via Indiekit. 🤞
April 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
If everything is working correctly, this is the first post from my website syndicated to Bluesky via Indiekit. 🤞