Category Archives: Design

On Book Covers

I love The Penguin Blog in a way that might be startling. I adore Penguin in general, and that adoration causes me to replace perfectly sound copies of books with their dog-eared dopplegangers, merely to have an array of gloriously coloured spines on my shelf. Penguin books have almost always been designed to reside solely [...]

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New York Snowglobes

C and I made a trip down to New York over New Years. It was magic. By that I mean cheap street-magic; the kind of insidious trickery a third-rate David Blaine would pull. But inbetween the many frustrations of living in a Big Apple, we found many things we liked, some things we loved, and [...]

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Found & Lost

One of the greatest treasures of the internet has to be FFFFound. I go to this site daily. Sometimes hourly when I’m in need of inspiration. Essentially it is an image bookmarking tool, kind of like a virtual shoebox full of photos. Users who stumble across an image amidst the grand cacophony of the web [...]

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