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 […]
Travel by Book
Penguin books are running a summer holiday reading campaign called Travel by Book. Great idea. I took part in their quiz and was told I should be “walking the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Getting Ready for Season of Festivals
Now is a good time to start thinking about sending out cards and self-promotion items to would-be customers and clients. Whether you want to drum up design work for yourself of any other kind of business it would be a nice idea to make an eye-catching greetings card for Christmas, […]
Shoe Tower: Creative Problem Solving Activity
A fun hands-on problem solving activity that will help to get creative juices flowing is to build a shoe tower. This weekend at GDP headquarters, as part of a creativity-building activity session, we were prompted by Dr Jack Matson of CIC MOOC to have a go at building our own shoe tower to test […]
Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK
You can trust the British Library in London to put on a big, important exhibition, and Comics Unmasked was no exception. The already iconic poster by Jamie Hewlett is above. But I left with the thought that I don’t really like comics very much! I am interested in them, like […]
Pick Me Up 2014
Where might you find giant white cats, embroidered sailors, typographic woolly scarves, loads of skulls, skate boards, decorated wooden spoons, printing presses and over-priced “my toddler could do that” collage? Yes, of course, it is Somerset House’s yearly display of the graphic arts, Pick Me Up. As always this year was fun […]
the graphic design project 