Design: tales from a transformative experience
I wrote this two years ago. As I now publish this, it with sadness, that I see not much has changed. But it is with some hope that I hear […]
5 Creativity-boosting New Year Resolutions (you don’t need any others!)
Forget the New Year Resolutions about the diet, keeping fit, being more confident, finally reading War and Peace and all the others – if you decide to take up five […]
Behind you! The anti-noticing pantomime called Pokémon Go
Humans who notice real things are dangerous. The other day I had a conversation with a good friend and colleague on The Hashtag Noticing Project Facebook group. So, all […]
Sleep: what is it good for? Absolutely everything.
Above: Why books are always better than movies? by Massimo Barbieri, 2009, Sleep is the best meditation. – Dalai Lama It would seem likely that getting enough sleep would be good […]
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Pick Me Up versus Sony World Photo Awards
Above: Post It comment board from Pick Me Up. Art for art’s sake Back in the 1940s and 50s the US government held up to the world as a […]
Typography: making an exhibition of itself
Originally I thought this post would simply be a visual showcase of the amazing typography at the Sustainable Cities exhibition at The Crystal in London’s Docklands. I’ve already posted […]
The Crystal: a sustainable feast for your design senses
On a stormy day The Crystal building greets you like a looming alien spacecraft; all dark glass and jutting angles, reflecting the War Of the Worlds-like pylons of the […]
Beguiled by data
In the press release for Somerset House’s current Big Bang Data exhibition Jonathan Harris wonders whether governments and the others who control our lives have got so hot about […]
World Post Day – postcards from your inspiration
Yesterday, October 9th, was World Post Day and Curious Events Day – a combination not to be missed. So on a trip to London’s Somerset House, my colleague, Tim Bones, and I asked our University of Kent Graphic Design students to not only review the fantastic World Illustration Awards, but […]
Ladybird – measuring life
Above: Shopping with Mother, Harry Wingfield, © Ladybird Books Ltd, 1958 In the way that many cultures and religions track the passage of time via rituals at specific times, so I tracked my childhood life, and continue to do so today, from what I learned about the passage of time from […]
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