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

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

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

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 scroll through? You...

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 years old now, and I m...

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 little more? (just ...

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 Sir Colin Pantone OBE...

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 ball of death will a...

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

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-edged sword. This bio...

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

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 are those who insist t...

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-day basis). I remembe...

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 design, that’ll probably...

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 dot-matrix typograp...

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

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 a serious note thou...

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?!!