We’ve been dipping in and out of GraphicDesign&’s new publication Page 1: Great Expectations over the last couple of days, and it’s a mighty interesting read. GraphicDesign& is a collaborative project from Lucienne Roberts and Rebecca Wright, which is aiming create publications which make connections between graphic designers and other subject areas. (We’d perhaps suggest [...]

The good folks at St Bride have been in touch to let us know that their next conference, Illustration: Making Pictures, takes place on Tuesday 19 June, and features an array of wonderful illustrators discussing their work. Eine (aka Ben Flynn) will be there – you’ll know his stuff from all over London, including the [...]

This is the new animation that Penguin have commissioned from director Woof Wan-Bau to celebrate the launch of their new series, the Penguin English Library. The series consists of “100 of the best novels in the English language”, starting with 20 launch titles, with cover designs from Coralie Bickford-Smith. (Check out the Facebook page to [...]

We were over in Berlin this weekend, and took the chance to visit the lovely Buchstaben Museum (Museum of Letters) there. The small museum, housed on the first floor of a shopping centre, is a fantastic archive of signage and lettering. It’s only open for a few hours each week (1pm to 3pm Thursday to [...]

We nipped along this morning to the big new show at the V&A, British Design 1948-2012, a retrospective of the creative industries in Britain since the end of the Second World War. Timed to make the most of the Olympic hordes who’ll be hitting the capital this summer (the show ends the same day as [...]

Shot, directed & edited by Glen Milner for the Daily Telegraph, this short film was shot at Smith-Settle Printers in Leeds. The book being printed is Suzanne St Albans’ ‘Mango and Mimosa’ published as part of the Slightly Foxed series. via The Casual Optimist

Noma Bar. He’s a bit clever isn’t he? He’s just created a series of eight covers for the latest issue of Wallpaper* magazine, and they’re stunners. The covers relate to eight design hubs: Germany, USA, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Belgium and Scandinavia. Known for his witty and economical use of positive and negative space, for Wallpaper [...]

On March 6 2006 we decided it might be an idea to start a blog (you can find the remnants of that over here - though we transported nearly all those posts over to this site too). Things in the digital world were quite different back then – you weren’t on Facebook, you didn’t tweet unless [...]

So, what did you get up to with your extra day? February 29th only comes around once every four years, so the good folks at Spread the Word decided they’d mark the leap day by getting writers from across the globe to collaborate on writing a book. In a single day. And then publishing it [...]

The latest issue of The Ride Journal (#6) has just launched, and as always it’s full of a fantastic mix of words, illustrations, and photography about all forms of cycling goodness. (More full than normal in fact, as this is their largest issue to date.) This issue also includes a piece written and photographed by [...]

‘With twenty-six soldiers of lead, I will conquer the world’ – a rather bold and beautiful statement we came across on a print from the Gregynog Press a few years back. The soldiers of lead of course are the pieces of metal type used in letterpress printing. Movable metal type was invented by Johannes Gutenburg around [...]

You’d be hard pressed not to have noticed it, but this year is the 200 year anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birthday. The Museum of London is hosting a major exhibition about his life, and to coincide with that, they’ve created a rather delicious iPhone & iPad app called Dickens Dark London. The app is an [...]

It’s a dog’s life. Eddie is an art-school drop out from Barking who likes sports, visual art and loafing by the river. He’s sort of seeing someone, but he also does a bit of rent on the side… though he hasn’t told his boyfriend Dan that just yet. Oh, and he’s also got a crush [...]

We finally made our way over to the Imperial War Museum London yesterday to check out the excellent Don McCullin retrospective, Shaped by War, that’s been running there since October. McCullin is one of the world’s most respected photojournalists, best known for his war photography (though his street photography at home in the UK, as well as [...]

People have been foretelling the death of the book for years now. Obviously, that’s not going to happen entirely, but more and more of our reading is already taking place on e-readers (Amazon’s Kindle, Apple’s iPad, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, Sony’s Reader, and WH Smith’s Kobo amongst others). The Kindle is the current king, currently available in the UK just [...]