I'm Rowan, or Pip. I write small software, design prints and logos, and run most of it from a Raspberry Pi or on GitHub. Below: the projects I'm happiest with, designs to buy and made for others, and a toy for making pictures like the ones on this page.
Projects
Finished things you can use or buy.
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Warplet (opens in a new tab)
An open-source link shortener you host yourself. Custom codes, expiring and password-protected links, click stats, QR codes and multiple domains, in two JavaScript files with no dependencies.
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pipchell.com (opens in a new tab)
My experimental website: programming, graphic design, computing, IoT, KDP publishing and other random things.
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BirthdayOnline (opens in a new tab)
Personalised birthday cards that open in the browser. The public version lets anyone make and send their own.
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Bin days
Bin collection days for your address, nearest first. Enter a postcode once and the page remembers it; the next collection comes straight from the council. Covers Central Bedfordshire, Maidstone, North Hertfordshire, St Albans, Warwick District and Welwyn Hatfield so far, and can add the dates to your calendar.
See all my projects and designs on one page.
Design
Prints for t-shirts, cases, notebooks and cushions, sold through my Floppy-Socks (opens in a new tab) shop on Redbubble, then logos and book covers made for other people. The prints are available on other items too.
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Panic and do something else
The wartime Keep Calm layout with the opposite advice: same crown, same stacked capitals.
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Kartik Watercolor
A round logo with the name lettered around a paintbrush.
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Get your mouth warm, you can do it like a toucan
A toucan and a stack of chocolate, cut out and composed as a t-shirt print.
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The Hub
A logo for The Hub, a social space: cut-out lettering over a burst of crossed bars.
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Notebooks on Amazon KDP
Paperbacks and hardcovers, from formatting the manuscript and designing the cover to setting up the listing and keywords.
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85% of people in this area might like this t-shirt
Heavy stacked type in the voice of a targeted advert. Based on a Green Party leaflet.
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Floppy-Socks
The logo for my Redbubble shop: FS in heavy outlined capitals over a spiky burst.
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Undertracks
A railway bridge sign redrawn in full, down to the small print, for a bridge called Under Tracks.
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About
Developer and graphic designer, based in England.
I prefer software that can be read in an afternoon and run without an account somewhere else. What I build tends to be single-purpose and plain inside: one source file to edit, one service file to read, one data file to back up.
I also work on home automation and connected devices: Home Assistant, CCTV, smart alarms, smart lighting and Raspberry Pis.
The design side covers logos and branding, the prints in the Floppy-Socks shop, and books on Amazon KDP, where I publish paperbacks and hardcovers and do the formatting, covers, listings and keywords.
This site follows the same idea: plain HTML, system fonts, no tracking, and images dithered to a few kilobytes each. I also spend time on search: keywords, meta tags, how a page is organised and how fast it loads.
- Name
- Rowan (Pip) Chell
- Based
- England
- Skills
- Branding, web design, home automation, Amazon KDP publishing, SEO
- Languages
- JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python
- Courses
- AWS Cloud Computing, Siemens Technology, Skills for Life: Higher Technical Qualifications
Dither
Every picture on this site is made of dots in one colour and nothing else, which keeps each one to a few kilobytes. Try it on a photo of your own. It never leaves your device. Open it on its own page.