1. 

   A new year, a new start

   I only had one new year’s resolution for 2012…

   — Become a freelance designer and set up Futurefabric as a limited company.

   And well, I’m pleased to say that before the year’s even had a chance to shake off it’s hangover, I’m now a fully fledged independent.

   I’m feeling pretty fired up about the year ahead and would love to hear about any interesting projects or collaborations. Please get in touch if you think we could work together, it’d be great to hear from you.

   Oh and a happy new year to you!

   
   4 weeks ago — Permalink
2. 

   Machinarium

   I recently finished this point-and-click adventure game from Amanita Design and was pleased to find it totally lives up to the indie game studio’s past form.

   I highly recommend it to anyone with an appreciation for thoughtfully crafted design and excellently paced conundrums that require a bit of lateral thinking.

   Visit the Machinarium site.

   
   1 month ago — Permalink
3. 

   Airside 1998—2012

   Today I received some news that left me with a heavy heart — Airside, the design company I worked for for five happy years is to fold early next year.

   I have so many fond memories of being a member of the Airside team and feel privileged to have played a part in the studio’s story. I was also lucky enough to meet and work with so many super cool, talented people.

   It’s fair to say that never before have I worked for a company (nor will I likely again) that so vehemently protected, trusted and cared for it’s designers and the creative process. This is something that could only ever have been possible with designers themselves at the company’s helm.

   I see now that Airside’s directors made huge sacrifices to keep the company this way, giving the rest of us enormous creative freedom, often at cost to themselves.

   For that I want to say thanks Nat, Fred and Alex and thanks for the good times Airside, we’ll be sad to see you go.

   
   2 months ago — Permalink
4. 

   Baroque.me

   baroque.me by @alexanderchen visualizes Bach’s first Prelude by drawing notes as strings. Lovely.

   
   3 months ago — Permalink

5. Anaconda

   Lovely symmetry/geometry in this animation by Iain Acton

   
   4 months ago

6. Time lapse of Earth from the ISS

   In a word, amazing.

   
   4 months ago
7. 

   Sawdust

   I’m currently working on a lovely new site for the guys over at Sawdust, due to hit the interwebz sometime this summer.

   They’ve got some brilliant new projects to showcase, including this great new typeface, New Modern that they‘ve designed for the Hype For Type foundry. Impressive stuff.

   More news on the site soon.

   
   7 months ago — Permalink
8. 

   Typetoken

   I was recently invited to contribute to this excellent newly launched typography blog.

   I’m planning to focus my energy on posting about type in the context of interactive and online projects. If you have an interest in such things, please swing by.

   And apologies if it’s felt like there’s been a bit of tumbleweed blowing around here for the past few weeks — I just became a dad for the second time, so I’ve had my hands pretty full!

   
   8 months ago — Permalink
9. 

   Le soleil brille!

   This pretty much sums up my mood right now as winter *finally* realises it’s time to move on.

   And the clocks go forward this Sunday too — roll on summer! :)

   
   10 months ago — Permalink

10. Flashman — The Proposition

    I love this video for the first track from Flashman’s début album “To The Victor — The Spoils!”

    Produced at Airside, it was designed, animated and directed by the very talented, Jack Cunningham.

    The album is available to buy from Airside Play and will be on iTunes from Monday 14th March.

    
    10 months ago

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