Designer humour

A postcard showing the words missed it, by the CMYK offset is horizontal offset too much

Great visual pun for TimeOut magazine - even if it is a graphic designer joke. I love this little piece of promo work, it was one of the first bits of paper ephemera I picked up and kept. That's why I use it in the masthead. A truly great bit of graphic design, deserves to be in Smile in the Mind. 

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A black book next to a small envelope with a hand and fly rubber stamped on it

Enquire within - a designer's art

This wonderful little design artefact was created by the late, great Ian Noble. It's self published and I believe was created for his Masters work at Brighton. Part puzzle and part intellectual exercise - it's a lovely design object. One of the things I love about it…

Cover of W.A. Dwiggins: A Life In Design featuring a portrait of him, all devilish grin and white quiff hair

Celebrating W.A Dwiggins, the first "graphic designer"

Before you pounce on me for the title, I know he wasn't the first ever person to practice the various crafts that make up graphic design. But William Addison Dwiggins was exceptionally talented in all things graphic design - illustration, typography, book design, calligraphy, layout, advertising,…

The cover of the A-Z of The Designers Republic, which is silver and features a DR style character and ASTDR in signature neon or piped letters

The vast A-Z of The Designers Republic

I’ve had this a while and finally gotten around to posting it. Mostly because there’s so much of it! AZTDR or A-Z of The Designers Republic is a vast body of work from the Sheffield duo. Chocked full of commercial, personal, political, cultural and random…

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