Posts from ‘October, 2008’

Man from U.N.C.L.E drawn by Ronald Searle – Found whilst looking for something else. Thought Bevis might like this one!

Abram Games (1914-1996) may not be a household name these days, but in his time he was one of the UK's premier graphic designers, with his imagery known and seen by thousands of people. Whether it was posters for London Transport, the emblem for the Festival of Britain, or the covers he designed for [...]

Hydragenic | The Importance Of Elsewhere –

Long-Sigh Anxiety : Elephant Words – the trouble with CSI

I have some posts coming up on the subject of modernist and mid-century graphic designers, inspired by a couple of books I was drooling over last week, and a talk that I went to on Tuesday. Both of these things encouraged me to dig out my copy of British Modern: Graphic Design Between The [...]

I'm having lots of fun with Poladroid today. It works well with this old berry-face photo I took last year.

I've been really rubbish at seeing anything at the London Film Festival this year, but then again, I always am a bit rubbish at seeing anything at the LFF every year. The only thing I've managed to see is something I didn't need to have pre-booked tickets for: London Loves, which was screened in Trafalgar [...]

Commenting is now fixed. And I like dialogue with others, so please leave comments!

It's been brought to my attention by a couple of readers that there have been problems with leaving any comments on my posts. I'm not sure why this is, because I have set the options in Wordpress to enable comments, but there's still a problem with some of the backend code somewhere. It's being looked [...]

Ellerbisms – Marc's relaunched his site. It looks nice.