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

Image of Steve Jobs

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

[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

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="" 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

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

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shows the future of reading, and, according to Slate's Farhad Manjoo, the future of censorship

[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_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

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="309" caption="Governor Schwarzenegger says scrap paper, adopt e-readers for state students"][/caption] Not a lot of time just at the moment. But, I've just read that Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, (or Kellifwahnya, as he says) wants to get ...Read More