Matthew Lyons has been around for a while and I’ve been tempted to add a post about his sun-bleached  illustration work for some time. He has recently started adding some new work to his portfolio, so I thought now would be a good time. His work sits somewhere between the lonely, wizened modernist backdrops of  [...]

When the air temperature has warmed and the fields are growing rare in colour, a very fantastic sporting event takes place once a year. The Tour de France (Le Tour) has been the cornerstone of spectator sport for me since I was young enough to leave the stabilisers in the garage. As a keen (casual) [...]

Typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische has been running her sideline project, Daily Drop Cap since last year. Although I’ve not been checking it religiously, I have recently revisited it and was totally surprised how it has taken off and just how much content she has added. What I love about this site is the spirit [...]

Whether it’s the fresh Spring days or me making more of an effort, I don’t know, but I seem to be getting out of the house a bit more lately. And, as a result, I’ve been doing my best to look around my surroundings a little more as it feels like Winter has closed down [...]

My old mate Simon Goode has been amassing printing, blocking, typesetting and paper cutting equipment since I’ve known him. I’ve never seen all this stuff in one place at once, but I just hope his ceilings are well supported. He doesn’t just collect this stuff; he utilises it all for his work first and foremost, [...]

The last week has been a blurry smudge of nervous excitement, apprehension and anxiety for me. A few weeks back I got a new job and since then I’ve been edging obliviously towards my last day with my current employers whom I’ve worked for over three years. A lot has happened during that time (not [...]

At the weekend, I spent a fair amount of time playing with Lego. It actually rather alarmed me just how easy my brain fell so quickly into the mindset of a 7 year old… First there was my eye’s ranging manically over the tumultuous heap of multi-coloured bricks, scanning for that all-important flat sixer brick [...]

Following on from my post some time ago about the functionally attractive German municipal typefaces, I thought I would post a link to a short but comprehensive history of one of the main families called DIN. There is something about this typeface that still does it for me. Whether it’s on the front of a [...]