i posted a short piece to me stuff on the current student unrest in amsterdam
me news
a ticket to ride
last friday i attended the launch of our latest, fun project for the metropole orkest; a new touring coach which will be used to transport the orchestra to concerts
in fact the bus was immediately put to use taking the orchestra to a live show with ‘squarepusher’ & ‘mark lanegan’ in rotterdam
keep your eyes out for the bus all over the netherlands (and further) in the coming year…
logo
laurence king publishers have reissued their excellent (2007) book logo (also featuring me studio work) in a smaller, soft-cover format and the author michael evamy was recently interviewed by it’s nice that
…I think it’s to do with the compression of meaning: the representation of something as large as an organisation in just a few marks. Humans seem drawn to symbols that resonate with their own experience and can accommodate different interpretations. The more economical they are, the more we’re drawn, the more they fascinate us. The digital era has made logo-makers, avatar-creators of all of us, so the art of the logo, of capturing maximum meaning with minimum means, is more magnetic than ever…
1986
…1986. Just a few months away from graduating from Lincoln Art School, 19 years young, naïve, restless; I was ready to change the world. It was a turbulent and chaotic time: ‘that’ woman Thatcher, crisis, Falklands war, Gorbachev and the crumbling Berlin wall…
i have posted my short column on graduating to me stuff
me updates feb ’15
after almost two years neglecting to update the work section of my blog i have finally managed to give the site a refresh and update me work with a whole new look… more updates to follow shortly
