My Philosophy is best summed up by the phrase, ‘plain, simple and useful’, Such things may not win many design prizes, but neither do they go out of fashion. – Terence Conran I’m a bit late with this one but a few weekends ago, I saw the Terence Conran exhibition at the Design Museum. I...
[Pocket Planner by Jessica Hische, writter of the blog post featured in this post and inspirational typographer and designer, I have this planner and carry it with me everywhere, wouldn't be without it!] Recently, I have been trying and trying to draw more, write more, sketch more, read more, lots of things…more and better. I’ve...
Poster by Ed Hall, inspired by this list. I’m not sure I agree with all of these and it isn’t an exhaustive list either but it is a starting point and a fun poster.
The London Olympics 2012 are only 191 days away! That sounds like a very short time, considering how long we have all been looking forward to it for. I may be slightly behind with this but I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while now and I was reminded of it this morning...
Where does the creative process begin? You could argue that the creative process begins with the decision to become a designer. From that moment on, everything you see and do feeds your visual intelligence, and contributes to the making of a designer. It’s one of the best things about being a designer: seeing design everywhere,...
…It would be Bernard Condensed. Alix asked on Twitter a while ago ‘If 2011 was a typeface, which one would it be for you?’ and yesterday seemed to be the perfect day to think about this kind of thing (but I’m a bit late). So, this is what I think, generally speaking 2011 was a...
I was searching istock for some sort of healthcare images and these images appeared next to each other in the results, made me feel a bit queasy…
A couple of days ago, I discovered Feedly. It seems it is the solution to all of my problems, as I mentioned earlier in October that I felt that I wasn’t reading my blog posts and just leaving them unread. Well, joining feedly has taken all of the blogs that I previously followed on Google...
So, I wrote a quick post at the beginning of this year about the fact that I’d joined Pinterest. I haven’t had too much time to browse the internet and find things that are cool. But I have found a few things recently which relate to a personal project that I’m doing and I’ve added...
I’m a bit late with this one but a couple of weeks ago, everyone across the internet was trying their hand at a bit of kerning. It was made by a company called Method of Action which is a peer-to-peer education for people who want to get things done. KernType is a game that will help you understand...
I can’t believe I whizzed passed 3 years and 300 posts without even realising! Thank you to everyone who has supported, commented, read this blog and just been generally awesome over the last 3 years. It’s mad to think that it was 3 years ago since I was at the beginning of my second year...
I’ve been creating my own hand drawn typographical project, to keep me drawing in my free time and also to see what I come up with. I loved studying typography at University and I don’t really get the opportunity to look into the art and beauty of it as much as I’d like to at work so...
