Pumping yourself full of coffee in the morning may not be too advantageous to people working in the creative industries. A new study has ...

Graphic Design Tip of the Day: Infographics are a concise and visually appealing way of presenting sometimes complicated information in a...

Everybody is just winging it. My life message for today, and probably the most reassuring thing for anybody to learn. As soon as you real...

Time to get all nostalgic about boredom. Do you remember when nothing used to be open on a Sunday? or when we didn’t have social media to...

Here’s a glimpse into my early encounters with the world of graphic design. I used to make my own magazines. These are all over twenty ye...

Can you chisel me something that jumps off the wall? I'll then show it to a few people...

I really should stop looking at these design fails, but it’s like a crack habit... Maybe space out the authors name from the book title a...

I never do this of course. I'm a good boy :-) Well, hardly ever...

Still my favourite Pantone swatch book. Remember, there’s also a pre-1969 greyscale version from the days before colour was invented by S...

No. 184 in a series of 955: Always maintain a poker-face whilst sat in front of your mac. Never suggest pressure, or behold the spinning ...

I know this poster has been produced for comic effect, but there's still something really disconcerting about it! It reminds me of a miss...

What’s the most annoying use of the much-maligned font comic sans that you can think of? For me, here's the very definition of a double-e...

As well as being a technical process, graphic design is also a psychological one too. Understanding how your mind works, and how you as a...

When it comes to how much design involvement you’d like a client to have in a project, there tends to be two schools of thought. There ar...

As a designer, if you attend a job interview, would you wear a suit? (even if you know no-one in the studio dresses smartly on a day-to-d...

One of my favourite pastimes is collecting vinyl. Sometimes I buy stuff just because I like the covers, and if it’s a Barney Bubbles desi...

One for the older viewers! Did you ever use ‘Folio’ for the BBC Micro? There was a time when this was the dogs doodahs. well, in terms of...

It always makes me smile when you attend design talks or presentations and the speakers bang on about their own self importance as if the...

Sometimes thinking inside the box is also good! A good example of when the concept is good, but the application is less than terrific. On...

Can I interest you in anything from this rasper of a menu? A drink? A starter? A migraine? Is it possible to be any worse than this?!!