About

Honest Orchard is a blog written by, Keith Mason. This blog is a place where I collect interesting bits from around the world and the very furthest reaches of the internet. I currently work as a digital designer making inspiring and accessible sites through the web from Bournemouth, where I live. My spare time is wasted blogging, playing guitar, banjo and hanging out with my aspiring photographer wife Faith.

I love writing and reading about design, life, retrospection, procrastination, inspiration and the world at large. Most of which ends up online here.

Hello!

Made this as part of a playlist I put together for my Dad this last Christmas. The cover was just something I put together using Faith’s photography from a shoot she did in the New Forest with my friend Chris and his band. I’m trying to experiment more with type and print more these days..

Just stumbled on this video about a guy called Alf Randell who shunned cities in favour of climbing and living life out in the Utah Desert. His perspective is one that seems in real sharp contrast to what we seems common fare in the day to day lives for most of us. Watching the video..

If you work in the creative industries or anything associated to that your probably no stranger to late nights. Whether its purely out of passion or something a little more formal you’ve had times when you’ve been well over your eyeballs when it comes to work. The trap exists that in being busy you end..

I recently shot my first film on my Holga. It took me too long to shoot the film but I’m glad I got it done. Some came out good, some bad but for a first try I’m pretty stoked. I’ve got a 35mm adaptor for it and now I’ve got the hang of it I..

What follows is the introduction to my 2009 final year dissertation. Over the coming weeks I’ll be putting online edited chapters of it and where I have the energy making it more accessible for reading online. I learnt a lot writing it as it looks at oppression in the world and ultimately, is it wrong?..