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) [...]

In the misty hazes of this cool Summer morning, most of us in the UK were discussing our worries of the results of last night’s local elections. In such dark and troubled times when it seems we have forgotten ourselves and Politicians are left to run amok, I turn to the one TV program that [...]

Right-wing ‘city rag’ and doom-harbingers, the Evening Standard have decided that in these days of free papery and digital finger-poking, it would be prudent to shake its down-beat winter coat off and come at us from a different angle with a short series of apologetic advertising posters. London-based ad’ agency McCann Erickson produced the curiously [...]

After seeing that the over-zealous ASA banned Courage breweries from using their decades old slogan of ‘Take Courage’ in their new advertising campaign on the grounds of it implying that beer induces bravery, I nearly didn’t add this post. I happen to feel pretty strongly about the hypocrisy surrounding alcohol advertising and can’t understand how [...]

It’s been a long while (mainly due to the never-ending task of taming the beast that is the blog), but I have finally got round to adding some of my more recent graphics work to the website. I have also slimmed down on some of the rubbish and tarted up the old. If you have [...]

Live Earth is a partnership project set up by producer Kevin Wall and green soldier, Al Gore. It’s aims are to use entertainment as means of conveying the messages of social responsibility in the face of climate change. However, from the website I can’t quite see how being a ‘for profit’ agency helps their concept [...]

25 years ago this week, there was a deep and long lasting scar being etched into the region I was brought up in. Across Britain the Miner’s Strikes were taking place and as neighbours were reluctantly pitted against each other, the communities they lived in were brought to their knees. The little Yorkshire village I [...]

A worth opponent to Ffffound has finally surfaced and it’s been the source of much activity today. Image aggregators are ten a penny on the internet now and it seems that if you need some inspiration in the form of design work and photos, then you certainly don’t have to stroke the bookshelf so quickly [...]