[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="287" caption="Fabulous to think that Photoshop once came on a floppy disk"][/caption] Wow. Photoshop is 20 years old today. There will shortly be a generation of young designers around who won't have lived in the 'pre-Photoshop' world. Actually, ...Read More

Darren naps calmly by the window

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="595" caption="The Gambia is a former British colony oddly poked into Senegal"][/caption] I recently had the good fortune to go to The Republic of the Gambia as part of a youth-based charity partnership. London's Play Action and Cardiff ...Read More

A page of my design icons article in full

[caption id="attachment_270" align="alignright" width="185" caption="Lance Wyman's 1968 Olympic logotype is timeless and classic"][/caption] Years ago I wrote an article for Computer Arts Projects as a retrospective of graphic design over the past century. I did a bit of summing up then ...Read More

Information is Beautiful explains the American political divide using data-derived imagery

[caption id="attachment_247" align="alignright" width="185" caption="Sir Tim Berners-Lee passionately explains Linked Data"][/caption] I’m an idiot. Not a fool, exactly, but I get these bees in my bonnet about one thing or another, usually something absolutely ridiculous, and I go on and on ...Read More

[caption id="attachment_228" align="alignright" width="103" caption="The Virgin: symbol of calm or conflict? "][/caption] There’s this phalanx of the indignant who have a bee in their bonnet about God and religion these days. I can’t help but find the dogmatically anti-religious pretty much ...Read More