Notebook&Me
Inspired by Sandy Suffield’s Things&People. I’ve created one of my own: This is my notebook. I’ve got an amalgamation of notebooks: big ones, small ones, squared ones, plain ones, ones for doodles, ones for lists and one for diary writing. But this one is slightly special. It is filled up to the brim with notes,...
Creative Mornings
Creative mornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. Each event is free of charge, and includes a 20 minute talk, plus coffee! You can currently join us in New York, Zurich, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and soon Chicago and London. A while ago, I saw that these Creative mornings took place in New...
Pantone Postcards
Three of my absolute favourite things: 1. Pantone – since when was it cool? 2. Stationery – not quite sure why I love it but anything I can write or draw on, I’m there! 3. Colour – I just love the colours, so perfect and bright! These would make me want to send notes to...
Hierarchy of Digital Distraction
David McCandless, writer of one of my new favourite blogs, Information is Beautiful, has designed this Hierarachy of Digital Distraction infographic based on the many things that distract him (all of us) from doing actual work! It is so true, funny and I think it is successful as an infographic. It is also featured in...
Infrastructure
This is mental. Found via Thought You Should See This. Infrastructure from Doyle Partners on Vimeo. What in tarnation? Here’s some gorgeous stop animation word nerdery. Or, as creator Stephen Doyle, founder of New York-based design agency, Doyle Partners puts it: “How should we promote the US Green Building Council’s upcoming conference, Greenbuild Next? How...
Design&
What’s this then? Why have I decided to change the title of my blog? Well, I hope it hasn’t caused too much confusion but I’ve decided to change the name of this blog. This is firstly because I was getting quite tired of the old name, which was “One Last Thing…” Secondly, it is...
Marina Willer
On Thursday evening, the guys from work and I went on our cultural night out to a talk by Marina Willer with the typographic circle. The poster above was given out at the talk, designed by Geetika Alok and is a Brazilian world, which doesn’t have a direct translation into English but means nostalgia, kind...
into the real world..
A while back I was asked if I wanted to write a guest post on david the designer’s blog. I wrote all about my journey from education to employment as a Junior Graphic Designer. It was a great experience writing for David’s blog, there might even be a couple of other posts in the very...
Mr. Men
Today is the 76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves, the author and illustrator of the Mr Men and Little Miss. Also, Google really seem to be pushing the boat out this year with their Google Doodles, I have loved almost every single one! Today’s was no exception, I’m not sure if I ever had any of...
Bank holiday weekend
This sunny sunday afternoon, I have been doing a touch of gardening, I went to the garden centre yesterday and bought some nice plants and shrubs for the garden. At the garden center, I saw some really cute tortoises running around their cage and some beautiful waterfalls and ponds, all far too expensive though. Above...
Here come the girls…
I hope everyone is having a lovely bank holiday weekend and enjoyed the wedding on Friday, I thought it was absolutely beautiful and if you haven’t seen any of the photos, you’ve probably been hiding under a rock for the last few days and I’m not going to repeat what everyone is posting all over...
Royal Wedding
Yesterday, I mentioned on Twitter, that I was preparing some bunting, victoria sponge, cupcakes and some tea, but not for a royal tea party, it was for a friend’s birthday invitation design. I’ve changed the design slightly to be red, white and blue but I liked the design so much and thought it looked so...
