I’ve been thinking for a little while about putting something together to recommend the books which i have been reading. A kind of catalogue within which i can put all of those design books which I think are great and everyone should read!!!
Introducing the The Design Book Store
The front page includes some of the best […]
Topshop London
Simple usability advice here, from a casual observer.
I was sitting down in the shoes section while the girlfriend dissapeared and found herself some comfy plimsoles and notices people using the staff area door on the left here. The access panel (click through image to see notes) is about 1/2 a foot lower than the […]
Just as i suspected, there is more on the reading list than i first presumed!
Each module does have it’s own reading list and so i’m sort of glad i held back a little on splashing out on all the books at once from the two original lists that I have been given. It would […]
Recently i had news come through that a mouse had crawled into a tent of mine and died. There are several holes throughout the tent and it looks pretty hopeless. In fact, i’m not sure it would hold out if it rained. I thought it might be time for a new one.
So, anyway… I was […]
I was interested to see that in one of the regular emails which popped into my inbox from Business Week Online there was an interesting article about a new lamp which was being released later this year by Herman Miller.
The new lamp is dubbed the leaf lamp and it’s interesting to see that this product […]
I am a big fan of the Amazon recommendation scheme they have in place on the site which automatically recommends new products for you to try based on products you have already bought.
This works great for books, and I have found myself checking out the reviews of recommended books and even buying them. Bonus! Music […]
The mugshot on the right belongs to a guy called Julien Macdonald. Now, i must confess, until the other day i really hadn’t heard of him. He is a well known fashion designer. I’m not really sure whether I have seen any of his work before or not, but from what i have seen in […]
I have been thinking over the last few days about how a designer can improve his or her chances of being accepted for a job interview. One of the key things I think that is important, apart from the Portfolio, is the Cover Letter.
“Of course,” I hear you chanting by the thousands, but I was […]
A few weeks back whilst I was in London visiting my girlfriend and the Central St Martins Industrial Design degree course open day we happened across a bookshop called Magma. If you have ever wanted to find a bookshop completely relevant (or as relevant as possible) to your industry then this book totally fits the […]
For a lot of my drawing I have given up the ghost on ‘ye ole sketchbook’ when marker pens are involved, purely because they bleed more than a zombie in a shoot ‘em up. I have instead resorted to leaving my sketchbook for design ideas and pre-concept work and turned to a few different marker […]
I’ve been idling over buying one of the world famous Moleskine sketchbooks for quite a while, and always thought that at around £12 in most bookshops they were a little too expensive for just a sketchbook of moderate size. But then I happened to stumble upon them for sale on Amazon.co.uk for a mere £4.80! […]
I came to the conclusion a while ago that optional warrenties offered by stores like Dixons, PC World, Comet, Curry’s and similar high street stores for electrical goods are at best a waste of time. I have also decided, more recently, that opting not to go for the additional warrenty is a blessing in disguise.
While […]