Still wallowing in the plump lethargy of a wet Sunday, I thought I might also post my favourite tune for languishing indoors to. It’s called ‘Nagasaki’  by Django Reinhardt. Django is, as far as I know, the only Belgian Gypsy jazz guitairist to have been recorded. When he was 18, Reinhardt was injured in a [...]

I was just over at Swiss Legacy looking at the blog there because I think that Sundays are ripe for that sort of thing. It’s the one day of the week that I feel the least distracted and so I like to slurp from a tepid coffee cup and peer over my glasses at things [...]

My girlfriend’s sister has a three year-old child who owns a picture book by a chap called Oliver Jeffers. I’d never heard of him before and spent a good ten minutes flicking through it to find myself captivated by the wholesome detail and odd flecks of adult humour. The illustrations are bold, imaginative and most [...]

Oscar Niemeyer; full name: Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho has a very long name indeed and is considered to be one of the foremost names in modern architecture. He pioneered several new building techniques and pushed the boundaries of potential for every modernist’s favourite building material… concrete. I know very little of Niemeyer’s [...]

Getting around London is often a tricky task, one that is sometimes often made more tricky by the tiny street signs that adorn its cacophonous streets. The signs are often missing from the places you would ordinarily expect to find them and when you do see the sign, it is often difficult to read. Too [...]

Over the last week I have been monitoring the content on a blog, which has shot to the top of my inspiration list. In fact, that happens to be part of the name too. Inspiration Resource is quite simply, exactly what it says. I like it when things do that and what’s more is that [...]

OneDotZero have been at the forefront of animation and short film for a long time. They’re very good at getting things right first time. A combination of a wholesome production ethos and a progressive approach to the artists they feature on their DVDs have ensured that they remain worthy purchases. I have been exposed to [...]

I only came across Visual Complexity a few weeks ago and already I feel I have grown attached to it. Everybody secretly loves graphs, maps and diagrams. We are conditioned into it from our first science lessons at school to our run-ins with flat-packed Swedish furniture assembly instruction booklets. However we rarely challenge them or [...]