I’ve always been a poster pilferer. I go to gigs and take them from the walls get them signed by the band then frame them. My Skunkhour poster from The Go tour is my pride and joy. My best friend recounts and experience of regret the time we saw Alex Lloyd at the Waterloo (in [...]

I am getting to a certain age where my friends are starting to get engaged, married or having babies. As their token graphic designer friend the tasks generally falls on me to come up with invitations. Now being a designer I don’t want my friends to have run of the mill invitations, I want to [...]

I have long been a fan of the Penguin Classics range. The beautiful orange and black that look so neat and professional on your bookcase. Not to mention that they are must reads from all periods in time. Well, recently while browsing in a bookstore I saw that the Penguin Classic collection has been given [...]

New York designer, Barbara Glauber, is touring the country later this month as part of AGDA’s international speaker program. Barbara is a founding partner of the Smoking Gun website and is on the faculty at Yale University as a critic in graphic design. She loves typography and chocolate (don’t we all?) and during her talk, titled ‘Heavy Meta: Design [...]

April 1 marks the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Bauhaus movement in Weimar. The Bauhaus brought us such revolutionary typographers as Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer and Jan Tschichold, who introduced the ideas of “New Typography” to design. The influence of the Bauhaus can be seen in much of today’s graphic design. It would seem [...]