Design Assembly

It’s that time of year again, when hundreds of thousands flock to south west London for the world’s most famous lawn tennis championship, and for the first time in my life, I made the impromptu decision to go along on a day off and queue up with thousands of others to try and get in. More

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Posted in Branding, Fashion, Type Design, Uncategorized
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Defining the teenage experience is a nigh impossible task as times and fashions change. That aside we can generally assume that the biggest responsibilities one could have as a teenager ranged anything from delivering someone’s newspaper, walking the dog or washing the neighbours’ car.  More

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Posted in Art Direction, Book Design, Magazine Design, Photography, Type Design
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Recently I was fortunate enough to spend an afternoon with a select group of renowned designers at an award schemes’ judging day, which gave me a great insight into what excited or disappointed them as they discussed and debated the entries. More

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Posted in Type Design, Typography
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As designer of type, I appreciate the sheer amount of time and effort that goes into designing, refining, spacing, kerning and hinting a font. But as a consumer I know the frustration of not being able to adequately test a font in a current project – to prove to a client or your boss that it’s worth investing in.

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Posted in Type Design
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Since deciding to make a career from type design, I’ve had many discussions with graphic designers that have led to the subject of their own type experiments. They mainly fit on the modular/geometric branch of type design. There is an endless fascination with alphabets composed of squares, circles, triangles or angles. More

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Posted in Print, Type Design
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