[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
[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
[caption id="attachment_217" align="alignright" width="185" caption="Jakesully prepares to learn a new trade"][/caption] I saw the film Avatar a couple of weeks ago. It was the full-fat, 3D, Imax experience, and I have to say, I really loved it. There’s no point in ...Read More
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Rupert Murdoch frowns up bloggers and news aggregators "][/caption] This is a post I wrote a little while back, but accidentally published as a page rather than as an entry. So I'm moving it. Sorry if it ...Read More
[caption id="attachment_180" align="alignright" width="316" caption="One of my articles is set for an upcoming issue of Digital Arts magazine"][/caption] I did a piece recently for Digital Arts magazine all about colour psychology. It's pretty cool, not quite out at the moment, although ...Read More
The funny thing about writing a blog is making sure you have something to say. This is a topic dear to my heart, as there's an awful lot of noise around online, but not nearly as many decent ideas. So, ...Read More
[caption id="attachment_158" align="alignright" width="317" caption="Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shows the future of reading, and, according to Slate's Farhad Manjoo, the future of censorship"][/caption] I'm not one for thinking that we in the west are teetering on the edge of a police ...Read More
[caption id="attachment_151" align="alignright" width="318" caption="Not quite the North Sea view, but a trip along Loch Leven and its farmland showed off the beautiful northern sky"][/caption] I have recently returned from my annual trip to Scotland to visit my friends up in ...Read More
[caption id="attachment_137" align="alignright" width="315" caption="Major Havelock overlooks Trafalgar Square beneath the summer sun"][/caption] I began an entry this time last week. I had just been to see Flow, a fantastic visual asset management tool from Canadian firm Gridiron. To summarise, it ...Read More