Welcome to my website

This place is where I bring together my two biggest passions in life; art and design. You may find traces of science and philosophy here too.

I hope you enjoy my work.

- Matt =)

My Latest Articles

Small house blueprint

13 Small House Design Principles (The Illustrated Guide)

Architecture
Small house with an attic

What is Considered a Small House? (Handy Size Guide)

Architecture
Racing car made from custom tags

Custom HTML Tags (18 Things To Know Before Using Them)

Web design
An example of a printed MacBook Air

Print Out Your Own MacBook Air! (4 Easy Steps)
Looking into an empty div

Empty HTML Tags (21 Weird Things You Need To Know!)

Web design
Columns all the same height

Equal-Height Columns (CSS Grid, Flexbox, Floated Containers, & Table Methods)

Web design
How to add CSS to HTML

How to add CSS to HTML (With Link, Embed, Import, and Inline styles)

Web design
A delicious soup made from custom elements

Replace Divs With Custom Elements For Superior Markup

Web design
Padding bewteen desktop, tablet, and mobile

Responsive Padding, Margin & Gutters With CSS Calc

Web design
Superman blocking styles

Style Blocker: How To Prevent CSS Cascade With Shadow DOM

Web design
Responsive text size

Responsive Font Size (Optimal Text at Every Breakpoint)

Web design
Responsive Columns Layout System

Responsive Columns: Build Amazing Layouts With Custom HTML Tags

Web design
3-meter wide driveway house floor plan

3-Meter Wide Driveway Houses (Examples, Photos, & Floor Plans)

Architecture
Responsive house plan

Responsive House Plan (Web Design Meets Architecture!)

Architecture
Julian Ashton Art School life drawing studio

Life Drawing: The Complete Guide (Illustrated)

Art
A nice sharp pencil

The Art of Sharpening Pencils (Styles & Techniques)

Art
Flowers growing in a tiny house window flowerbox

12 Small House Benefits: Why Building Tiny Makes Sense!

Architecture
A wide entrance hallway

Hallways: Are They a Waste of Space?

Architecture
A fractal tree made by recursive drawing

Create Fractals With This Amazing Recursive Drawing Tool

Art
Boggle dice shaker

Boggle Dice Shaker (Built With Javascript)

Web design
Charcoal life drawing

Charcoal Life Drawing (Plus White Charcoal Pencil on Toned Paper)

Life drawing
Graphite Pencil Life Drawing

Graphite Pencil Life Drawing (Rendering & Sketch Examples)

Life drawing
Chalk life drawing with Conté Crayon

Chalk Life Drawings (Conté Crayon Vs Chalk Pencil)

Life drawing
Sepia ink life drawing

Ink Life Drawing (6 Experiments with Nibs & Brushes)

Life drawing
Graeme Frontbum

Graeme Frontbum (About the Comic Strip & Characters)

Comics
Ogga surfing

Ogga the Cane Toad (About the Comic Strip & Characters)

Comics
Lyndal the flower girl

Art by Matthew James Taylor (Paintings, Drawings, Digital Art, & More)
The alphabet in colors according to my synesthesia

Synesthesia: My Colored Alphabet & Four-Leaf Clovers!
Small house architecture

Small-House Architecture (Design Ideas & Inspiration)
Footer at the bottom of the page

Get Down! How to Keep Footers at the Bottom of the Page

Web design
Is CSS margin top or bottom better?

CSS: Margin Top vs Bottom (A Trick You Should Know)

Web design
Beautiful centered menus with CSS

CSS: Horizontally Centred Menus (With Optional Dropdowns)

Web design
Fractal gravity

Fractal Gravity: The Solution Must Also Explain Itself
Comic strip

Comic Strips & Graphic Stories

Art
Responsive website layout

Web Design (CSS Layouts, Experiments & Demos)
Ads that can change size to fit any screen size

Responsive Banner Ads with HTML5 and CSS3

Web design
Ogga The Cane Toad comic strips

Ogga The Cane Toad (85 Comic Strips)

Comics
Soul Search Graphic Story

Soul Search (2 Page Graphic Story)

Comics
The Bug Insects

The Bug Insects (4 Comic Strips)

Comics
Graeme Frontbum’s Pet World

Graeme Frontbum’s Pet World (14 Comic Strips)

Comics
Architect sketches for a house design

Architect vs Draftsman: Which One Should You Hire?

Architecture
An architect working on a computer

Hiring an Architect? 12 Questions to Ask them First

Architecture
Open floor plan kitchen and dining room

Open Floor Plans And House Value (2021 Trend Analysis)

Architecture
Printed house plans

Floor Plan Copyright: How To Legally Build From A Design

Architecture
A rolled iron roof under gum trees

Do Architects Charge For Consultations? (Questions To Ask)

Architecture