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  • 2025
    • Oct 16, 2025 Writing During the Apocalypse
    • Oct 14, 2025 Kyle T. Webster
    • Oct 13, 2025 Lee Friedlander
    • Oct 9, 2025 Nimona
    • Aug 12, 2025 Timequake
    • Aug 8, 2025 Götz Valien
    • Aug 7, 2025 Ware
    • Apr 29, 2025 Google Volume 2
    • Apr 28, 2025 K-Type
    • Apr 28, 2025 How Will Capitalism End?
    • Apr 25, 2025 Cover Meeting
    • Apr 10, 2025 Some hyperlinks
    • Mar 31, 2025 Ultramarine
    • Mar 24, 2025 Dookie
    • Mar 24, 2025 Reprise
    • Mar 20, 2025 White House
    • Mar 19, 2025 Move
    • Mar 5, 2025 Blur
    • Feb 27, 2025 Wikitok
    • Feb 26, 2025 The stock library of the past
    • Feb 25, 2025 The Last Ships
    • Feb 21, 2025 Substack disillusionment
    • Feb 21, 2025 Reading
    • Jan 30, 2025 The Neighborhoods
    • Jan 25, 2025 Overinvolved
    • Jan 21, 2025 Raúl Cañibano
  • 2024
    • Dec 19, 2024 Madness
    • Dec 17, 2024 Listed
    • Nov 29, 2024 Don Hertzfeldt
    • Nov 27, 2024 Samples
    • Nov 27, 2024 Heretic
    • Nov 26, 2024 Bluesky
    • Nov 24, 2024 Spektrum
    • Nov 24, 2024 Thought Bubble
    • Nov 17, 2024 Bluesky
    • Nov 4, 2024 Hyperblogging
    • Oct 25, 2024 Erin Kissane on going offline and into the dark forest
    • Oct 24, 2024 Erich Hartmann
    • Oct 21, 2024 The Wild Robot
    • Oct 14, 2024 What we saw in Gaza
    • Oct 11, 2024 Ted Chiang on Ai
    • Oct 1, 2024 Tears for Ai
    • Sep 30, 2024 Wild God
    • Sep 30, 2024 Empire State
    • Sep 27, 2024 Blogging to exhale
    • Sep 27, 2024 D+W
    • Sep 26, 2024 Type Archived
    • Sep 25, 2024 Fry on Ai
    • Sep 25, 2024 Jarmusch
    • Sep 25, 2024 Fungai
    • Sep 23, 2024 Björk Nero
    • Sep 19, 2024 Ripley
    • Sep 17, 2024 Burton
    • Sep 1, 2024 Jen Ervin
    • Aug 27, 2024 Winona Ryder’s Criterion Closet
    • Aug 25, 2024 All tomorrow’s pencils
    • Aug 24, 2024 Jane Plüer
    • Aug 21, 2024 Gen X&H&M
    • Aug 4, 2024 Sinéad
    • Jul 30, 2024 Ai confusion
    • Jul 24, 2024 Rebel Sounds
    • Jul 20, 2024 Kiosk
    • Jul 8, 2024 Jen Orpin
    • Jul 3, 2024 Magdalena Wywrot
    • Jun 29, 2024 When your style becomes a trend
    • Jun 28, 2024 Wire
    • Jun 25, 2024 Reprise
    • Jun 24, 2024 Fourth Cone
    • Jun 20, 2024 And Other Stories
    • Jun 17, 2024 Chase Jarvis
    • May 30, 2024 Tony Ray-Jones
    • May 19, 2024 Some books
    • May 13, 2024 TA-DA!
    • May 5, 2024 Angel in New York
    • Apr 25, 2024 Cover Meeting
    • Apr 10, 2024 Paris
    • Apr 7, 2024 Lego x Kallax
    • Mar 28, 2024 Kyle T Webster
    • Mar 12, 2024 Blast
    • Mar 11, 2024 Oscars
    • Feb 29, 2024 TinyLetter RIP
    • Feb 29, 2024 Goodtaste
    • Feb 26, 2024 Sunshine
    • Feb 22, 2024 Poster stuff
    • Jan 23, 2024 Steinbeck Blackwing
    • Jan 4, 2024 Follow
  • 2023
    • Dec 23, 2023 Poster review
    • Dec 20, 2023 McQuades
    • Dec 8, 2023 Monroe x Erwitt
    • Nov 24, 2023 Boooks
    • Nov 16, 2023 Marc Alcock
    • Oct 27, 2023 The Creator
    • Oct 26, 2023 Nuts
    • Oct 16, 2023 Some books
    • Oct 15, 2023 Micaela Alcaino on Ai
    • Oct 11, 2023 Dominic Turner
    • Oct 10, 2023 Songs of Silence
    • Oct 1, 2023 Anderson
    • Sep 26, 2023 John Pawson
    • Sep 25, 2023 Wizards vs Ai
    • Sep 22, 2023 Grace
    • Sep 17, 2023 Kylie x Farrow
    • Sep 15, 2023 Willey x Slidetober Fest
    • Sep 12, 2023 Antaccent
    • Sep 11, 2023 Design Reviewed
    • Sep 9, 2023 Kathryn Harrison
    • Sep 8, 2023 Richard Wells
    • Aug 25, 2023 Yufan Lu
    • Aug 4, 2023 Pokerface
    • Aug 3, 2023 Shel Silverstein
    • Aug 1, 2023 Myspace 20
    • Jul 19, 2023 Photomat
    • Jul 14, 2023 Hammersmith
    • Jul 10, 2023 Juno Calypso
    • Jul 7, 2023 Underpass
    • Jun 30, 2023 Rectangles
    • Jun 27, 2023 Priscilla
    • Jun 27, 2023 If You’re Happy
    • Jun 12, 2023 Paris skyline
    • May 25, 2023 Pratchett
    • May 12, 2023 Bad periods
    • May 11, 2023 Mapbacks
  • 2022
    • Dec 3, 2022 James Perou
    • Nov 30, 2022 MoMA
    • Nov 28, 2022 The Bear
    • Nov 28, 2022 Ezra Furman and other adventures
    • Nov 19, 2022 McMansion Hell
    • Nov 11, 2022 Choir
    • Oct 10, 2022 Violent Cop
    • Sep 14, 2022 Dolf Kruger
    • Aug 24, 2022 Reagan Ray
    • Jul 29, 2022
    • Jul 21, 2022 Milton Glaser
    • Jun 16, 2022 Love & Friendship
    • May 31, 2022 OutHorse
    • May 25, 2022 CR
    • May 18, 2022 Mishka Henner
    • Apr 15, 2022 Sungi Mlengeya
    • Apr 4, 2022 Rozenn Le Gall
    • Mar 8, 2022 ABCD
    • Feb 16, 2022 Beppe Giacobbe
    • Feb 8, 2022 Craig Ward
    • Feb 2, 2022 B. D. Graft
    • Jan 12, 2022 John Gall
    • Jan 3, 2022 Gerald Brockhurst
  • 2021
    • Dec 13, 2021 Katrien De Blauwer
    • Dec 2, 2021 We Buy White Albums
    • Oct 22, 2021 Guardian Saturday
    • Oct 15, 2021 Projekt 26
    • Oct 14, 2021 All the Marvels
    • Sep 29, 2021 Why are Blackwings so popular?
    • Sep 20, 2021 Little Simz
    • Sep 20, 2021 Little Women
    • Sep 19, 2021 Batkidd
    • Sep 17, 2021 Props
    • Sep 13, 2021 Kleon Zines
    • Sep 13, 2021 Micro But Many
    • Sep 13, 2021 The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess
    • Sep 11, 2021 Giovanni Pintori
    • Sep 8, 2021 Nicolas Magand
    • Sep 6, 2021 Swiss maps
    • Jul 30, 2021 Common art
    • Jun 23, 2021 The Fens
    • Jun 21, 2021 Witch
    • Jun 14, 2021 Don’t Look Now
    • Jun 2, 2021 Michael Crichton
    • May 23, 2021 Foucault in Warsaw
    • Apr 23, 2021 Grace
    • Mar 4, 2021 Carl Sagan
    • Feb 10, 2021 Nora Ephron
    • Jan 13, 2021 The Thing
  • 2020
    • Nov 9, 2020 Creative Review
    • Jul 15, 2020 Collage
    • Jun 26, 2020 CR40
    • May 22, 2020 High School High
    • May 8, 2020 Appleby at Allington
    • May 1, 2020 A Thief in the Night
    • Apr 22, 2020 Walter Benjamin’s Writing Tips
    • Apr 22, 2020 Own Brand
    • Apr 2, 2020 Jenny Theolin
    • Mar 25, 2020 Neil Gaiman
    • Mar 1, 2020 Shatterhand
    • Feb 25, 2020 Rediscovering 2000AD
    • Feb 16, 2020 A Reluctant Memoir
    • Feb 12, 2020 Perfection
  • 2019
    • Oct 29, 2019 Gandhi: An Autobiography
    • Oct 17, 2019 Learning synths
    • Oct 15, 2019 Matchbloc
    • Oct 3, 2019 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
    • Sep 30, 2019 London
    • Sep 29, 2019 Wire and Minimalism
    • Sep 28, 2019 Roger Deakins
    • Sep 18, 2019 James Joyce
    • Sep 16, 2019 World of the Unknown: Ghosts
    • Sep 12, 2019 Films
    • Aug 24, 2019 Peter Mendelsund
    • Aug 21, 2019 Ray Gun
    • Aug 2, 2019 Day of the Tentacle
    • Jul 28, 2019 When corporate lobbies started to look like museum galleries
    • Jul 26, 2019 Mindhunter
    • Jul 25, 2019 Foragers of the foreshore
    • Jul 24, 2019 Cereal Offers
    • Jul 23, 2019 Everyone’s a copywriter, right?
    • Jul 19, 2019 BLDG BLOG
    • Jul 18, 2019 Stranger Songs
    • Jul 17, 2019 Scents and Sense Ability
    • Jul 17, 2019 Modulex
    • Jul 15, 2019 Mr Bingo
    • Jul 9, 2019 Ottobiography
    • Jul 8, 2019 Penguin Classics
    • Jun 24, 2019 Jack Kirby
    • Jun 23, 2019 Klekshops
    • Jun 20, 2019 Odeon Relics
    • Jun 18, 2019 Chongqing Zhongshuge
    • Jun 16, 2019 Visions
    • Jun 15, 2019 Denis Medri
    • Jun 14, 2019 List of lists of lists
    • Jun 5, 2019 How to draw a horse
    • Jun 3, 2019 Zhurnalnaya Roublennaya
    • Jun 2, 2019 Birmingham Design Festival
    • Feb 12, 2019 The Putter
    • Feb 7, 2019 To all the introductions I’ve loved before
    • Feb 6, 2019 Women in Red
    • Feb 4, 2019 Architect to book designer
    • Feb 3, 2019 Endpapers
    • Feb 2, 2019 The era of statement wallpaper and fatty text
    • Feb 2, 2019 Hayao Miyazaki on Creative Regret
    • Feb 1, 2019 OBEY
    • Feb 1, 2019 What Did You Learn from Your Design Degree?
    • Jan 28, 2019 Small Joys
    • Jan 25, 2019 About about
    • Jan 19, 2019 Why Dinosaurs Matter
  • 2018
    • Dec 20, 2018 Remembering Myspace
    • Dec 1, 2018 Christmas Cards? Again?
    • Nov 22, 2018 Designers and Their Notebooks
    • Sep 6, 2018 Irritating gentlemen, distracted boyfriends and milkshake ducks
    • Aug 10, 2018 The Pebbles on the Beach
    • Aug 3, 2018 Pestering Artists About Their Pens
    • Jul 31, 2018 A Burglar’s Guide to the City
    • Jul 30, 2018 Font Review Journal
    • Jul 28, 2018 The Face Redux
    • Jul 26, 2018 The Wolpe Collection
    • Jun 29, 2018 Letraset
    • Jun 1, 2018 Between Levinas and Lacan
    • Mar 13, 2018 Inflatable war
    • Feb 14, 2018 Type Safari
    • Jan 31, 2018 Art Gallery
    • Jan 11, 2018 Spines
    • Jan 2, 2018 Impressions of the Wilderness Children
    • Jan 1, 2018 An A-Z new year checklist
  • 2017
    • Jul 21, 2017 Flâneur
    • Jul 10, 2017 Typeset in the Future
    • Jul 4, 2017 Gary Hustwit
    • Jul 3, 2017 Spin the Black Circle
    • Jul 3, 2017 Films watched, June 2017
    • Jul 2, 2017 City Building Education
    • Jul 1, 2017 Andrzej Pagowski
    • Jun 22, 2017 Zen in the Art of Writing
    • Jun 19, 2017 Nothing
    • Jun 15, 2017 Week RIP
    • Jun 8, 2017 Virginia Woolf on the Cultivation of Taste
    • May 31, 2017 Films
    • May 12, 2017 Colour
    • Apr 21, 2017 Anne Michaels on small adventures
    • Apr 5, 2017 London no longer exists
    • Mar 22, 2017 Tula Lotay
    • Mar 14, 2017 Working from Home
    • Feb 9, 2017 Mummy Brown
    • Feb 9, 2017 Decluttering the Desk
    • Feb 1, 2017 Dune
    • Jan 24, 2017 Willem Sandberg's rules for poster design
    • Jan 23, 2017 Michael Johansson
    • Jan 18, 2017 Dead Bookstore
    • Jan 16, 2017 Feathered Dinosaurs by John Conway
    • Jan 11, 2017 Homage to Romek
    • Jan 11, 2017 Full Table
    • Jan 9, 2017 Times Haiku
  • 2016
    • Dec 11, 2016 ★
    • Dec 5, 2016 Designing for Architects
    • Nov 25, 2016 Backrow
    • Nov 19, 2016 The End Matters
    • Oct 24, 2016 Habits of the Caffeinated Designer
    • Sep 1, 2016 Tschichold’s Ten Common Mistakes in the Production of Books
    • Jul 31, 2016 Freelancer on Holiday
  • 2015
    • Dec 3, 2015 Jurassic Park and effective restraint
    • Jul 22, 2015 Should you be on the internet?
    • Jul 17, 2015 I Am a Lego Architect, They Call Me a Lego Butcher
    • Jul 9, 2015 New forms in film poster design
    • Jul 2, 2015 Designing in the Gaps
    • Jun 4, 2015 A Week Offline
    • Jun 4, 2015 Buffalo
    • May 11, 2015
    • May 6, 2015 Portlandia
    • May 3, 2015 Stack
    • May 3, 2015 David Balzer on curationism
    • May 1, 2015 Avaunt
    • May 1, 2015 Charlie Brooker has been reading the Mr Men
    • Apr 29, 2015 Hillary Clinton's big pointy H
    • Apr 28, 2015 The secret lives of elevators
    • Apr 27, 2015 The inside-out city
    • Apr 20, 2015 Whitney
    • Apr 14, 2015 The Brazilian Indian Telephone
    • Apr 10, 2015 Inside the Netflix war room
    • Apr 10, 2015 Florida’s Space Coast
    • Apr 8, 2015 Welcome to the studio
    • Apr 2, 2015 (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
    • Mar 31, 2015 John Portman
    • Mar 20, 2015 Prince’s secret vault
    • Mar 19, 2015 Ballard on the future of the future
    • Mar 18, 2015 Rocky II
    • Mar 18, 2015 The devil’s rope
    • Mar 9, 2015 Best Animated Feature … feature
    • Feb 11, 2015 Backs of things
    • Feb 7, 2015 Macdeath
    • Jan 22, 2015 The subliminal power of city fonts
    • Jan 18, 2015 Eleven historical uses for invisible ink
    • Jan 17, 2015 The weird science of naming products
    • Jan 14, 2015 Ed Ruscha and the Future of Maps
    • Jan 8, 2015 Calvino
    • Jan 7, 2015 Boring
  • 2014
    • Dec 28, 2014 Cinema 2014
    • Oct 17, 2014 Designers on Film
    • Sep 20, 2014 Umlauts
    • Aug 8, 2014 Stock
    • Jul 18, 2014 Boyhood
    • Jul 14, 2014 Pins
    • Jun 7, 2014 WWDC
    • May 16, 2014 Cook
    • Apr 10, 2014 Manuals 1
    • Apr 9, 2014 The film machine
    • Mar 31, 2014 When your work is also your hobby
    • Mar 7, 2014 Mmmm Stationery I Love You
    • Feb 26, 2014 Parent vs. Brands
    • Feb 19, 2014 CD
    • Feb 10, 2014 The Painful Task of Updating a Portfolio
    • Feb 5, 2014 140 Characters
    • Jan 14, 2014 That Awkward Designer Question
    • Jan 8, 2014 Apple's silent invasion of the home
  • 2013
    • Dec 22, 2013 Cinema 2013
    • Dec 20, 2013 Designer vs Christmas
    • Dec 18, 2013 Why Don't You Turn off Your Computer and Do Something Less Boring Instead?
    • Dec 17, 2013 Häagen-Dazs
    • Dec 8, 2013 Apple irks and niggles
    • Nov 25, 2013 Marvel Unlimited
    • Nov 21, 2013 The Hardest Client to Client
    • Nov 1, 2013 Attach, Send, Wait, Worry
    • Oct 25, 2013 Designing for Academics
    • Oct 20, 2013 The evil prints
    • Aug 31, 2013 Ken Adam and the architecture of Apple
    • Aug 8, 2013 The school of twitter
    • Aug 4, 2013 Side Effects
    • Aug 3, 2013 Rediscovering albums
    • Aug 1, 2013 A new source of inspiration
    • Aug 1, 2013 The Loved Vons
    • Jul 22, 2013 Truth
    • Jul 12, 2013 Amiga
    • Jul 1, 2013 My desk, my raw material
    • Jun 10, 2013 Orwell's Six Rules of Good Writing
    • May 30, 2013 Bruno Munari on design as art
    • May 24, 2013 The Great Gatsby
    • May 17, 2013 Friday links
    • May 17, 2013 Pickling
    • May 16, 2013 Port #9
    • May 13, 2013 LCD
    • May 8, 2013 What's so cosy about crime, anyway?
    • Mar 1, 2013 Roaming
    • Feb 23, 2013 NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual
    • Jan 16, 2013 Music
  • 2012
    • Dec 10, 2012 Black and white
    • Nov 27, 2012 Parental Lament
    • Nov 26, 2012 Apple, Columbo, Vignelli and the evolution of the desk
    • Oct 18, 2012 Escape
    • Oct 16, 2012 Interface
    • Oct 15, 2012 Websnail
    • Sep 25, 2012 Dots
    • Sep 15, 2012 Dredd
    • Sep 11, 2012 New Utøya
    • Sep 10, 2012 Lessons in the inappropriate use of architecture
    • Sep 6, 2012 London Docklands in the 1980s
    • Aug 27, 2012 Neil Armstrong 1930–2012
    • Aug 6, 2012 Camoupedia
    • Jul 24, 2012 On Big Evil Plans and Superheroes
    • Jun 19, 2012 Bandage
    • Jun 1, 2012 Prometheus
    • Apr 18, 2012 Words
    • Feb 24, 2012 Books
    • Feb 9, 2012 Is Douglas Trumbull making Rendezvous With Rama?
    • Feb 7, 2012 Can couples work together?
    • Feb 3, 2012 Gallery photography etiquette
    • Jan 30, 2012 York New York
    • Jan 26, 2012 Facebook and the lost art of conversation
    • Jan 25, 2012 Design Museum
    • Jan 24, 2012 D&AD publications? Anyone?
    • Jan 20, 2012 DC rebrand
    • Jan 6, 2012 Path
  • 2011
    • Dec 31, 2011 Cinema 2011
    • Dec 31, 2011 Rendezvous with reading
    • Dec 2, 2011 Christian Annyas
    • Nov 3, 2011 How do you buy type?
    • Oct 31, 2011 A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
    • Oct 6, 2011 Here I Mo again
    • Sep 29, 2011 Ordering disorder
    • Sep 1, 2011 One month to go
    • Aug 31, 2011 Face amnesty
    • Aug 25, 2011 Cardon Philip Webb
    • Jul 29, 2011 Hische
    • Jul 29, 2011 This week, I have mostly been:
    • Jul 25, 2011 crtateup
    • Jul 19, 2011 Gray
    • Jul 19, 2011 Latitude 2011
    • Jul 5, 2011 The press is broken
    • Jul 4, 2011 Poached eggs, George Hamilton and Roosevelt Island
    • Jul 1, 2011 Freedom looms
    • Jun 29, 2011 A waste of a perfectly good dimension
    • Jun 27, 2011 Good film plus successful marketing equals merely okay film
    • Jun 1, 2011 Commercial and nasty
    • May 25, 2011 #GuestEd #Daniel
    • Apr 11, 2011 Keeping calm
    • Apr 4, 2011 Pavlus
    • Apr 4, 2011 Source Code, aka Jakes On A Train
    • Mar 9, 2011 B
    • Mar 3, 2011 Port
    • Mar 3, 2011 Blade Runner Kick Stopper
    • Feb 11, 2011 The difference between remakes and remakes
  • 2010
    • Oct 13, 2010 Mine
    • Jun 14, 2010 The inevitable obsolescence of digital publishing
    • Apr 23, 2010 Nicholas Felton
    • Feb 18, 2010 Some thoughts on digital publishing
  • 2009
    • Sep 9, 2009 (500) Days of Summer
  • 2008
    • Dec 19, 2008 Oh. Eight.
  • 2006
    • Mar 10, 2006 Film Geek Pro
  • 2005
    • Jul 18, 2005 REM in Hyde Park
    • Apr 15, 2005 Amy Hempel
    • Jan 1, 2005 Thirteen things to look forward to in 2005