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A wooden display case containing multiple copies of 9 different brightly coloured recipe pamphlets

Tiny recipe collections to treasure

Today I discovered Short Stack Editions whilst taking a perusal around Heath Ceramics. These are lovely small, 'pamphlet' sized recipe collections. I picked up two volumes: volume 8, Honey by Rebekah Peppler and volume 13, Lemons by Alison Roman. Each focuses on a single ingredient…

2 cards, one says Data, Decisions and Design, the other has an old fashioned drawing of a jester.

Strategy cards for the day job

Mostly I keep this blog personal work free. However recently I put together a pack of strategy cards on working with analytics and data for my day job at Qlik. It was a fairly rapid project, 6 weeks from concept to delivery. It's been a…

Issue 1 of Zembla magazine show Tilda Swinton on the cover

Zembla Magazine issue 1 - words, pictures and graphic design gorgeousness

Since the early 2000s there's been an explosion in high quality independent magazines. These are often lovingly crafted, hugely indulgent, hyper focussed niche offerings. Not aimed at mass distribution or high ROI and usually not the most successful business models. One of these magazines that appeared…

Issue 5 of I-D Magazine. The cover is a dark bright blue with pink letters saying i-D i-D i and in the background is a 5 and a photofit of Lady Di

Vintage I-D Magazines (1981, 1983, 1984, 1985)

Rediscovered some old issues of I-D Magazine. They range from issue 5 (1981) to issue 28 (1985) and cover the mag's early progression from fanzine to fashion mag. First up is issue 5 aka the Lady Di issue. A spectacularly good typographic pun for the…

An illustrated Prince comic featuring him on the cover with guitar and flames behind him.

Prince Alter Ego Comic 1991

On a very sad day. Here's a few pics from Katrina's copy of Prince Alter Ego Comic from 1991, that sits on our bookshelf - loving preserved for 25 years by a true fan. RIP Prince Rogers Nelson (1958-2016)

A a cloth covered box by the Chapman brothers containing reworkings of Goya's Disasters of War

Injury to Insult to Injury to insult and beyond

Got may hands on this fantastic postcard set from Jake and Dinos Chapman's - Injury to Insult to Injury. It's a lovely boxed reproduction their now infamous (a label that applies to almost everything they do) 2004 piece of the same name (see here). What…

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