#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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 Blog is Back!
Apologies, dear followers, about the several month’s break in blogging. We have been busy creating new projects, including a few apps, the long awaited On Stage (scenography with a way to explore a book of your choice) and our brand new Arts & Issues series, which looks at…erm…the arts and issues! […]
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