Towers are great. They rarely have any other function than acting as a communications array or providing a top floor revolving restaurant for cold war spies to meet in. But some don’t even have that going for them. Some are just there because they look good and happen to represent progression or some other signifcant [...]

Typography sites are rife at the moment. Most are relatively standard, relying on the flat, two-dimensional appeal of black text on a white background – Often they showcase typefaces and fonts that are overdone or at least too tediously reminiscent of the classics. The true fathers of typography and indeed, todays pioneers, have created successful [...]

Over the last few months I have been keeping a close eye on the developments of a New York-based digital agency by the name of ‘1st-ave-machine‘. The first music video I saw by them was the bewitching and slightly uncomfortable ‘Sixes Last’ by Alias. A cracking video for a cracking tune. There is something about [...]

It’s the fiftieth post! So I have a rather special post I have been saving for a while. Between 1768 and 1771 there was a rather special boat rolling the waves of the high seas. It was called the ‘HMS Endeavour’ and it was commanded by Captain James Cook in a voyage of exploration. A [...]

I’ve been toiling over whether I should add this picture to the blog for the last two weeks. I don’t like the idea that it doesn’t fit into anything of real interest other than the fact that it’s just a great vintage image. But I also like that too, so I gave in. I am [...]

I was just flicking through some more shots from my recent trip to Berlin and I had totally forgotten that on the last day, we had visited Grünewald – a large expanse of forest on the edge of the city. At one edge of the forest, there is an area called Teufelsberg, which is mainly [...]

Sir Titus Salt was a philanthropist and business entrepreneur from the Bradford area of West Yorkshire and there aren’t many of his type left on this planet. In 1853 he completed is dream of an amalgamated social industrial community called Saltaire that not only benefited his workers, but which actually made profit too. Titus was [...]

I lazily looked up Syd Mead on Flickr to see what I could find… And would you believe it? There was plenty to be had! In particular, I was pretty impressed Flickr user Michael Heilemann’s collection of Mead’s work, which amongst other things features some of the inspired Bladerunner concepts. Syd Mead is to me, [...]