Just as surely as I sit rapt watching Neighbours during my lunchtimes, I’m also wholly absorbed by the developments in the screen reader sector. It’s far from sexy, but, well as Gene Pitney sang, something’s gotten hold of my heart. I ...Read More

E-literacy starts here

  [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="168" caption="The EBM, thumbnail"][/caption] London has just seen its first espresso book machine become operational, in a West End branch of Blackwell's. I've been watching eagerly for signs of the demise of print as the digital revolution gathers ...Read More

Musing on the espresso book machine

It’s another sunny day in London and we city folk are milling about slightly happier than we were a few months back, when it was cold and oppressive, and we were waiting for the bump at the bottom of the ...Read More

A quick thought on summer and Twitter

Who would have thought it? John Prescott a hero? A legend? Well, here’s the thing. I was talking to something of a prestigious designer – not as a friend or a hobnob, but as a commission – who put the ...Read More

John Prescott: hero in the wings?

  [caption id="attachment_22" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Bookshelves aren't likely to lose their books anytime soon"][/caption] Being that I’m in publishing, I’ve been sitting down feeling pretty nervous of the predicted ‘death of print’. Magazines, books, everything that’s printed by a publisher with names ...Read More

Is this really the end of print?

Somewhat inspired by an upcoming assignment in which Photoshop is the star, an interview I once carried out with a photographer and some general musings over beer with a friend, I slung together something for my Myspace presence the other ...Read More

Value and the Internet

News caught my eye yesterday morning that the Labour Party has launched a new online offensive. LabourList.org is a response to both American Obama-mania and some not-so-bad offerings from the Tory right, including Conservative Home and Guido Fawkes.    Technically, it is ...Read More

Labour left shoots wide online