How do you buy type?
Look at that. ARS Maquette. Beautiful. Having read on the Typekit blog that it's now available for web use, I thought I'd look into getting myself a licence. It'd come in handy for my thrice-weekly...
View ArticleDisplay
Have I mentioned the amazing Display before? Probably. Put together by Brooklynites Kind Company, it's a curated collection of important modern, mid 20th century graphic design books, periodicals,...
View ArticleSaul Bass
With the publication of Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design, there's a lot of love out there right now for the big guy. One corner of the web you really need to see is the Movie Title Stills...
View ArticleGrayMatter
How Darwin’s photos of human emotions changed visual culture / Do-gooders create 3D printed shells to save hermit crabs (a surpassingly cute pet, it turns out) / Bonkers architecture: The Tower For...
View ArticleThe QR code: gimmick, Pandora's box or just misunderstood?
QR codes. Yuck. These so-called quick response codes are more like ugly, mysterious trapdoors; more often than not slapped onto designs to convince client that their advert/article/yoghurt is somehow...
View ArticleCristiana Couceiro
My big Gimme Bar collection of yellow things just keeps on growing. The latest addition is this lovely illustration for Design Week by Cristiana Couceiro, whose work is well worth a look-see. The...
View ArticleMovember strikes back
I'm still fuzzying up my lip with a barely-noticeable soup-strainer for Movember, and I believe some of you still have change in them there pockets of yours. Please give what you can, there's a good...
View ArticleMalcolm Gladwell: Collected
Crivens. I've been meaning to pour some Gladwell into my brain for some time now, but have never quite got around to it. The beautifully designed (by Paul Sahre) and illustrated (by Brian Rea) new...
View ArticleNever Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go is definitely one of my films of 2011 (yes, it's that time of year again – out come the best of lists …), so when Paul Willoughby tweeted up a picture of Carey Mulligan from a recent...
View ArticleWhat is it that Pantone do again?
Do you remember when Pantone colours weren't plastered all over biscuit tins and chairs and aprons and postcards and mugs and kitchen scales? You know, when they just made colour reference books?...
View ArticleMulhouse Gare Central
Not really sure what it is (it's a bit French, and I'm a bit British and therefore stubbornly resistant to bothering to learn other people's languages), but Mulhouse Gare Central is a rather lovely...
View ArticleGrayMatter
Love Mike McQuade's Chicago map for Herb Lester. Even after years of watching ER, I had no idea Chicago was that shape / Beautiful pics of the Barbican and the city by Jenny Theolin / The architecture...
View ArticleChristian Annyas
Lots of nice collections to look at on designer Christian Annyas' blog, such as Chevrolet speedometer designs from 1941 to 2011 and handlettered logos from defunct department stores. He's also the...
View ArticleEggers
A little experiment in designing a Dave Eggers cover. Obscenely basic, yes. Possibly too basic. Took five minutes to get to this point and, although I intended to do a lot more to it (I had all sorts...
View ArticleBojkowski / Grafik
And so, Grafik has been dropped by its publisher once again. It's a hell of shame, but I'm confidant they'll bounce back again, so no need to obituarise just yet. Instead, why not spend some time...
View ArticleNTFS poster
That Eggers experiment I did the other day reminded me of this A0 poster I did back in 2009 for the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme awards ceremony. I recall it took forever to get those few...
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