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Get Yourself A Cheap #Leveson Report
Leveson Report, printed via Lulu.com. The pretty spectrum of blue hues is an intentional difference from the official version. The Leveson Report is over two thousand pages long, and is published in...
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Overthinking Facebook and Instagram
An Instagrammable photobomb, by theycallmemouse on Flickr. I have become an avid listener of the Overthinking It podcast. It is a few guys, chatting via Skype from disparate locations in the USA,...
View ArticleNotes on design trends for long-form and creative writing
My virtual meeting with Sam has prompted a meandering journey through a few websites dedicated to the stylish presentation of text. I thought I would note the links in one place: first, merely to note...
View ArticleThe New Social Media, All About Images, Less About The Search
I’ve noticed that instead of sharing a concise and searchable 140 character message, people have taken to sharing an image of a person with a longer quote on it. Is this how social media works now?...
View ArticleThe Internet urgently needs a new ‘personal opinions’ icon
I posted this on Medium last week to almost deathly silence. I thought it would be something people might share but clearly I’ve not built up enough of a network. One aspect of the Internet that makes...
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From the Archives
Now permalinks are the norm, its unusual to lose anything you’ve written online. We are Funes. However, now CSS is also the norm, it is possible to lose the design of any given page. For example, the...
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Hooray! Its the retro packaging aesthetic round-up!
Following the stratospherically popular “Its the faded parchment screen print agitprop aesthetic YouTube round-up“, I now present images of a couple of packages that are currently sitting my kitchen...
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The Birth of the Shard
If you take a stroll down Farringdon Road, from Exmouth Market towards Clerkenwell Green, you will come upon a magnificent sight-line into the City of London. It is not until you reach the Betsey...
View ArticleIn Praise of The Room Three
For the past few weeks I’ve been playing The Room series, a set of three games for mobile devices by Fireproof Games. This week I completed The Room Three, and thought I’d write a quick review. The...
View ArticleThe Typography of Labour Resignation Letters
Am I the only one to be interested in the various typefaces, typesetting and margin choices of all the Labour resignation letters? — robertsharp59 (@robertsharp59) June 27, 2016 This tweet of mine...
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Fashionista Philip: The Sartorial Choices of Mr May
Societal progress moves at a glacial pace. Sexism didn’t go away when Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister and it’s still with us even though Teresa May now occupies Number 10 Downing Street. Still,...
View Article59 Productions to produce City of Glass for the stage
This week 59 Productions (the radical design and production company than I had a hand in setting up) announced their latest project. Its an adaptation of Paul Auster’s City of Glass by Duncan...
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A simple twitter bot made by Russel Neiss does one thing: convert each of President Donald Trump’s tweets into the format of an official presidential statement. Here’s one where which confirms that his...
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Mickey Ears
I’ve been at Disneyland Paris this week, and it’s compelling. Every element, whether it is the sight lines, the architecture, or the set dressing in the queuing areas, has been carefully ‘imagined’ to...
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