What have the Romans ever done for us?
I’m on holiday for ten days tomorrow and my brain has given up work already, so instead of some clever-yet-groanworthy dad-pun of a title, you can have a Monty Python quote, as I couldn’t think of anything else. This post was nearly entitled “Romans they go to the house”, but I feared it was too [...]
Lovely children’s activity booklets
I received a very handsome surprise package in the post today. Handsome surprise packages always light up my life, but the contents of this one made me hop up and down with joy. Within, you see, were bundles of printed file copies of a couple of lovely jobs I’d just completed for the National Museum [...]
I love magazine design
Yes, I do. It’s possibly my favourite thing to do. It’s all about retaining a united look for the whole publication, but differentiating articles from each other. Tis a fine balance. My general rules of thumb would be: • choose a few key fonts. I’ve cut down the amount I use for each publication over [...]
A more modest proposal
I’m always doing a big song-and-dance about CIO Connect magazine, for the simple reason that it’s a dream to work on. The editor is top class (I understand he was recently named as one of twitter’s top 100 journalists to follow – number 91, if you credit that sort of thing) they use a wonderful [...]
What designers want from PR people
I could rant for hours about the general ineptitude of PRs and their inability to see that the better the image they provide to us designers, the better their clients will look. Peter Bartram of PR Success Monthly cleverly managed to limit me to five minutes, though. Read his interview with me here!
