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Graeme
I’m a freelance journalist living in London, England. Primarily I write about design and technology, although I also cover some hospitality and leisure, and have even dabbled in genealogy. Other things I enjoy include the electric bass, the acoustic guitar, rice, film and books. That’s pretty much me in a nutshell.
Way back in May, Vince Fraser, a digital designer and illustrator based in west London, suggested we do an interview for Mawgablog. I said, yeah great! And we did the interview. It’s taken forever for me to get it all ...Read More
I had this entry in my written diary dated Tuesday 18 May. I thought it would be an interesting post. It goes like this:
I told Fiona (my flatmate) about this dream I had, involving Andrew Neil.
I had a dream. For ...Read More
I made a vow to myself while I was walking around Hackney, mumbling to myself about this and that – my personal liquidity crisis, fried chicken, sirens, traffic congestion, pollen and the range of things peculiar to E9 and E8 ...Read More
It's been a long time coming, but I've got my online portfolio up on Mawgablog. It's in the Published Articles section. It's been a bit of a palaver for one simple reason. Choice.
Previously, I'd been blogging away happily on MySpace, ...Read More
I've been mulling over all this Flash-iPhone, Apple v Adobe stuff for a while now, and then lo and behold, Steve Jobs writes an open letter about it on the Apple website. So, I got some posh stationery and wrote ...Read More
If you're a regular (haha!), you might have seen my previous entry about my trip to The Gambia with Play Action UK, a newish nonprofit organisation dedicated to youth workers in the UK and Africa. The trip was all about ...Read More
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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
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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
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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
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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