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• A little more about the redesign

  Designing a website for yourself is a hard thing to do. When I started designing this site I had a hundred different ideas that I wanted to implement. I wanted to reference this era of design, a bit of that one, and maybe use these photos and this typeface, etc. Seeing as I've reached a design that I'm pretty happy with, I thought I'd talk a bit about two of the main directions I took.

  Read the rest of this entry, A little more about the redesign // Posted on 06/03/08 // 4 comments

• Photoset: Penguin Books

  

  Last week, Monsieur Collison and I raided the lovely Oxfam shop in Hockley, Nottingham on the basis that the front window was full of a massive display of beautifully designed Penguin books. My credit card took a bit of a beating but these look lovely on my shelves in the lounge.

  Pics tagged with “penguin” on Flickr // Posted on 28/02/08

• Photoset: Found Steam Train Type

  

  Now that I've got a nicely operational blog (albeit not online yet), I can start to post some of the stuff that's been accumulating over the last 3 months or so. Ages ago El and I went on some old fashioned steam train and although I can't remember why we didn't just drive, the journey was full of classic British graphic and type design. Enjoy...

  Pics tagged with “railway” on Flickr // Posted on 10/01/08