December 2012

May get a little quiet around here for the next few weeks, we're busy tying up jobs for the Christmas shut down but also planning a pretty major website overhaul for launch early next year. In the meantime a very Merry Xmas and Happy New...

Southside Stories is a great little website collating the stories of some of the characters, businesses and people who work and live on Birmingham Southside. As one of the most diverse quarters of Birmingham town centre it's a well produced and fascinating snapshot into the...

Another interesting book launch that may have to be on my Christmas list is The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design. At over £100 it's not exactly going to be an impulse buy, but I do like the composition of individual cards with a large image...

There have been a few interesting design books out recently, and I've just received the new 528 page monograph from my favourite design heroes M/M (Paris). I've been waiting a while for some sort of retrospective of their 20 years in the design industry and it...

Like many small towns across the country, Walsall on the outskirts of Birmingham has been massively hit by the recession over the last few years. The promise of investment and re-generation after the building of the multi million pound Art Gallery couldn't really stand up to the huge...

The Gov.uk site has been live for a couple of weeks now but it's the first chance I've had to take a good look around, and on the whole I'd say it's a very good step forward. I was always a big fan of Business Link's...