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 […]
Traits of creative people – is this you?
What distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty. Brandon Boyd Can we really say that there […]
#noticing: or ways to boost your creativity with social media
Above: #noticing the Observer Building, Hastings, UK If you want a golden rule … [the] true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details […]
Protected: Impossible Spring: Dutch Flowers at the National Gallery
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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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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