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The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that…
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Bournville
A combination of nostalgia and curiosity led me to pick up an old Olympus OM10 film camera. I last shot film 20 something years ago. I have no idea what I’m doing.
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Why Design is Hard
Scott Berkun recently appeared on the Design Better podcast to chat about the frustrations that designers have working in big companies and how to solve them. I certainly relate to a lot of those frustrations, so picked up Scott and Bryan Zug’s new book Why Design is Hard and devoured it in a couple sittings.…
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Sketching For Communication
I shared some thoughts over on automattic.design about how I use sketching to communicate ideas in my day job working on WordPress.com.
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The Designer’s Contribution
I recently came across an old speech in the rams foundation archive where Dieter Rams talks about how designers contribute to the success of a company. I’m not sure if this speech came before or after Rams formulated his famous Ten Principles of Good Design, but you see many of the same themes coming through…
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Find my book
I love bookshops. The old kind are the best. Packed with books in every available nook. Floor to ceiling stacks of all the genres you could imagine. I can lose hours browsing the shelves. Sometimes I don’t have the time to spare though. I just want to pop in and pick up something quickly, but…
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Be tremendous with each other
I came across this passage from an interview with the writer Andrew O’Hagan in the FT last weekend. What a beautiful outlook on life. I do not believe in life after death because the earth is all of heaven that we shall ever know. That is why we should try to be tremendous with each…
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London Type
I was in the capital for the start of the London Design Festival yesterday. As I walked up Princes Gate from the V&A I realised how many different typefaces I was surround by. These images capture some of the typefaces I came across as I moved through the city.
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In Defence of Giving a Damn
The past few weeks I’ve been working on a project that just didn’t seem to turn out right. Despite three major design iterations and a thousand smaller explorations, I wasn’t happy with the result. Sometimes this happens. It would be oh so easy to draw a line under it and move on. There’s always more…
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