Recently, I have been enjoying the rather quirky tracks of debonair knob-twiddler, Onra. In particular, his totally underrated album Chinoiseries has been doing the rounds in my gaff for a while now. It’s a roughly banged-together album with none of the sterile ‘shopping in footlocker’ beats or the damp J-Dilla rip-off loops that you might [...]

Years ago in the late 80s, my mum had a tablecloth that could have easily been designed by Angie Lewin – I’m not sure if it was, but the more I think of it, the more I want it to be true. I didn’t mind the brown and green floral emphasis at the time and [...]

If you made a great car in the car in the 1960′s, it was usually made up of around 50% gorgeous design, 45% roaring engine, 4% leather interior and 1% ashtray. It was that easy to make cool cars. Today, the outcome seems relatively the same, but the process in between and the idea behind [...]

When I was kid, the cartoons on TV seemed to be less disposable and there was an endless supply of them too. Perhaps  that’s because I had the undeveloped mind of a 7 year-old – a mindset which also led me to crayoning over the speaker of our television set one dull Saturday morning. An [...]

Tim Gough is an illustrator and screen printer from the US. His work is curious, curvy and strangely feline. I can’t quite help myself from wondering that if he illustrated a children’s book, it might become an instant classic. That’s not to say that I love all of his work. I don’t. Some of it [...]

There seems to be a swathe of chunky slab serif fonts around at the moment – A fact which makes me tremendously happy. There is something rather clever and and yet still slightly cocky about modern slab serif fonts. They suggest tradition and reliability with their prominent and elaborate serifs whilst managing to childishly stick [...]

When my mate brought the new issue of Edge magazine into work today, my eyes bulged with the sort of wild anxiety that a child experiences when there is only one Tunnocks Tea Cake left in the biscuit tin. From the perspective of a designer, keen gamer and self-proclaimed nostalgic, the 200th issue of Edge [...]

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 [...]