Journal archive (2007–2018)
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Probably the best billboard I’ve ever seen.
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More on unpaid internships
An internship is not where the intern does the work of a normal employee without getting paid. Photo by Nick Loyless. We talked about unpaid internships back in 2011, and the topic generated a fair bit of chat in the…
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Only 4% of women consider themselves beautiful
For the latest experiment in Dove’s Real Beauty campaign, Ogilvy hired Gil Zamora, an FBI-trained forensic artist, to sketch women two ways: the first in their own words, the second in the words of a stranger. The resulting three-minute video…
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Fontfabric free fonts
Free fonts, more often than not, lack attention to detail, but some of these from Fontfabric make a nice change. One of them — The Kabel — has a few lovely application shots, like this… Not that I’m religious, or…
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Popular Lies About Graphic Design
An attempt to debunk the various misconceptions, half truths and, in some cases, outright lies which permeate the industry of design.
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Alan Watts on the dream of life
“Everybody is fundamentally, the ultimate reality. Not god in a politically, kingly sense, but god in the sense of being the self – the deep down basic whatever there is. And you’re all that, only you’re pretending you’re not.” —…
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SODAE house
“In a nature area between Amsterdam, Amstelveen and Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, lies the Kostverlorenkade 1; an island measuring 1200m2. Here, VMX built a 500m2 house. The starting point for the concept was the perception of the landscape, the distant…
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Reflections on design self-employment
If you’re thinking of quitting your salaried job to start your own design business, here are a few designers who’ve reflected on their time in self-employment. Photo via Slim 69 Guy Moorhouse of Futurefabric shared 10 lessons learnt after one…
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On selling websites
Last week I was offered a five-figure sum for the sale of the Logo Design Love website. My sites will always have their price, but for a few reasons, I said no thanks. Photo credit: Instructables. My name’s on the…
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Interactive mind maps
To help my thoughts at the start of a project I’ll usually create a few word-maps (or mind-maps). Sometimes I’ll use a thesaurus if there are particular words I want to focus on. Late to the show, I stumbled upon…