Riba’s ‘Difficult Sites’ exhibition in London is worth 20 minutes of your time
At the weekend I went to see a new exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba) at their HQ near Great Portland Street called Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds. It isn’t a big show – you can…
The incredible secret of the London Overground rebranding
I am 100% on-board with the London Overground being split into six different lines with individual names. It is infuriating to see there are delays on the Overground and have no clear idea of whether they might be on a…
Lovely Ladybird books exhibition in St Albans
I thoroughly recommend the current exhibition in the St Albans museum about the design and illustration of Ladybird books called The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists. It is free and runs until September. There is lots of original artwork…
The more things change, the more they stay the same: Guardian design personas from 2006
I was clearing out a load of stuff the other day, and discovered I still had some posters of the design personas that the Guardian were using the very first time I worked there. They were prepared by Flow Interactive…
InPublishing article on “wearable tech”
“This is going to be a key issue for publishers. The phone is already an intimate personal device – many people sleep with their phone by their bedside. It is the last thing they look at when they go to…
“Elegant Tools” with Facebook, GDS, Orange and OpenIdeo
Last night I went to an event called “Elegant Tools” which was hosted by Facebook in the swanky surrounds of the St Pancras Renaissance, which was also once the location for a great episode of Most Haunted. The evening was…
The NYT forcing staff to use their mobile site sends an important message
The New York Times are running an experiment to force staff off their desktop machines and on to their mobile phones and tablets. Mark Coatney has written that it will be “one big pain in the ass”. I agree with…
All change again for the BBC News website
The BBC News website will be getting a redesign today, as the desktop version is switched off, and everybody gets served the mobile/responisve site. Dave Lee has written a piece about the likely reaction to the change, which includes some…
Typography claims hoist by own petard
There’s a lovely essay here on Practical Typography about whether Medium’s look and feel is good typography, or more like a frozen pizza i.e. “Not as wholesome as a meal you could make yourself, but for those without the time…
If I lived in Scotland this one design decision would make me vote “Yes”
A group of celebs have banded together to make “Let’s Stay Together” – an appeal for Scotland to vote against independence. It is 2014. If you try to view it on your phone, this happens.