Owen Gregory is an editor, website designer and musician living in Birmingham, UK. He started designing for the web in 1998 and established his small business Full Cream Milk in 2006. Prior to that, Owen studied English and writing to master’s level, and he now brings these two interests together for your friendly neighbourhood web book publishers, like Five Simple Steps. He tweets as @FullCreamMilk because FullCreamMilkMan is too long for Twitter.
Owen is what is sometimes called a classically trained musician, and he plays oboe and cor anglais (neither English nor a horn) in a number of non-professional orchestras.
Oh, and Andy Clarke once thanked Owen for “being Lewis to my Morse”. Which is better than being Robin to his Batman.
Owen Gregory winkles answers out of authors of web books, the whys and wherefores of writing and publishing them. Everyone loves a book for Christmas, so spare a thought for the misguided soulsbrave folk who write them.
Owen Gregory raises his baton and conducts an extended exploration of some simple musical principles and their relevance to modern web design practice. TL;DR? It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that Yuletide swing.
