Gold Fingers by Vince Fraser

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

[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

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

One of my articles is set for an upcoming issue of Digital Arts magazine

[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

[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

  [caption id="" align="alignright" width="318" caption="ScrollMotion hopes to be the iTunes of books for Apple's latest iPhone"][/caption] One of these days I'll get my hands on a Kindle or a Sony  e-Reader and figure out whether they really are the future, or ...Read More