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..
Just came across some awesome blackboard typography/design by Dana Tanamachi. Anyone who’s ever tried doing anything remotely creative can attest to the challenge of writing on vertical surfaces as apposed to conventional illustration and design which makes this all the more awesome. It’s one thing to crank this out on a computer, its something else..
El Lissitzky was someone I heard about early on back at University who was a Russian Artist and Designer. He worked on a range of materials but the thing that stands out for me is his work in print, namely due to the unique style which draws on design schools like constructivism quite heavily. The..
image credits: props to cabin porn I don’t have a cabin, I don’t even really live near anywhere remotely wild. But I know I’m not alone when I say I find something fascinating about the outdoors. More and more of us today spend increasing amounts of time surrounded by the electronic trappings that feature in..
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..
For those who don’t know Jeffrey Zeldman he’s quite possibly one of, if not the most influential character when it comes to the way we see the web today. Awhile back I read something on his blog about what he believed made a person successful, you can read the full post here. You just look at..
I’ve recently felt challenged to start a series of posts on Christians who have served as both inspiration and as signposts to a deeper, simpler and raw form of faith. People who have never really earned major publicity but have quietly and consistently tried to mold their lives on the character of Christ and his..
A little while back a heard a talk on ‘A plea for Christian piracy’ by a guy called Kester Brewin at a festival I went to. Ideas aside, the gist of the talk was looking at what we find so attractive about the ‘mythological images’ of pirates in our culture and why they speak to..
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?..