Finally picked up a copy of the much raved about MacGuffin magazine. I'm a bit late to this party as it's already on No. 3, The Rope issue. I must say it's pretty damn nice, lovely stock and use of illustration. I really like the…
A small selection from Letterform Archive's Instagram feed. For the past few months I've been visiting and volunteering at the Letterform Archive in San Francisco. It's a collection of over 30,000 lettering, typographic, calligraphic and graphic design related items. From stone artefacts and illuminated manuscripts through…
Mostly I tend to avoid promotional christmas giveaways, but this one from Diptyque is beautiful. It's a paper based theatre set, consisting of one pop up 3d theatre scene and a second stand up theatre where you can change the scenes - with 9 story…
Despite having limited wall space, I can't resist posters and prints. I recently discovered Dorothy (http://www.wearedorothy.com/) and oh boy what a treasure trove. After much deliberation I managed to limit myself to these three posters: But this one is so on my radar for my…
There's something about cycling that seems to brings out the best in graphic designers. I'd seen a few pieces about Mondial magazine from the British cycling brand Rapha on the design blogs, but hadn't seen it in the flesh until I visited their San Francisco…
Arrived back from a long weekend and this little beauty was waiting for me: Action Time Vision, #002 in Unit Edition's Archive Series. I'd almost forgot that I'd ordered it! I'm loving the books being put out by Unit Editions (Tony Brook, Patricia Finegan and Adrian Shaughnessy), and can't…
Octothorpe Interrobang A few weeks back I saw a tweet featuring a pic of the octothorpe or hash symbol, from Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols and Other Typographic Marks by Keith Houston. It looked exquisite and I couldn't resist grabbing a copy of the…