I was particularly saddened today when I saw a post on the Creative Review Blog that revealed the forlorn news that Sheffield-Based Graphic Design studio, The Designer’s Republic has finally closed up for good. I sort of made of a funny noise when I read this news and I also think I may have wept [...]

I came across Julia Rothman’s great blog about book covers and spreads. It’s been around for a while now and I know that book covers seem to be everywhere at the moment, but I just found it and feel I should surf the wave of joy it has caused. Most of the posts feel ‘discovered’ [...]

It’s January in London and a few days before most people get a long-awaited payday. Anxiety and mild depression are a very real possibility for many. Having heard so much about it, I thought I would watch ‘London’ for the first time on a special BFI DVD combo pack in order to remind me that [...]

Image from Polanoid user Rebecca… I love Polaroids and refuse to accept that they’ll never be made again in the same way.I want to believe that they have simply ‘deferred’ production for a bit until they think of a way to make us miss them even more than we already do. The sad truth is [...]

Steven Lisberger’s 1982 film, TRON is a timeless masterpiece of beautiful graphics and imagination. I watched it again last night at a friend’s film night and tried to imagine how completely mesmerised and confused I must have been when I first saw it at the age of 9. The thing that always gets me is [...]

When I lived in Glasgow, there was a small Bollywood film rental shop near to Great Western Road, just off Charing Cross.  There were a few wet Sundays when I headed down to hire something along the lines of Lagaan (which is cracking by the way). Usually, I went for the most commercial ones. Ones [...]

Gerald Mills and Charles Boon set up the Mills & Boon empire way back in 1908. At first, they pushed the work of established authors like P.G Wodehouse, but by the mid 1920′s they came to realise that their sales of ‘light fiction’ were rocketing. It’s a good thing too that they turned their hand [...]

On the way back from a friend’s house recently, I paused to enjoy the daring concrete lines of Stockwell bus depot. A fairly well hidden building that sits quietly off the main drag in Lambeth. When it was first built in 1952, it was the largest concrete structure in the world and the architects wanted [...]