#designlife — Tonight has been an awesome night, and I write this on my way home from the Drapers Digital Festival 2018 Awards sitting on a cold and generally bland East Croydon station platform. This the first post I have chucked up in some time and I’d like to firstly apologise, but…

#designlife — So as is always the way… it’s been a while. Hey guys! I’ve missed you! It’s been super busy recently, with new projects, some that I’m super excited to share with you all in the near future as well as loads of other bits and bobs going on personally and…

#designlife — Last Friday I was invited to take a tour of the newly opened GFSmith show space in swanky W1, (Central London) to learn more about their papers, their process, and the history of the company. I was met by my local rep Alyson. We chatted and caught up over a…

#designlife — So I am a huge fan of craft beer, more specifically pale ales and I absolutely love trying new ones that I havent seen before. …

#designlife — Last night I had the honour of being invited to the Christmas Circus event hosted by Fedrigoni, a fine Italian paper manufacturer with a global presence at their Imaginative Papers Studio on Clerkenwell Road.

#designlife — I’m always down for a design related event and last night supplied me with the opportunity to see graphic designer and typographic wordsmith Anthony Burrill take to the floor at Apple’s flagship Regent Street store for an inspiring talk and digital type workshop.

#designlife — It recently occurred to me that I use Adobe Illustrator in my day-to-day role at Other Media as my go-to software for most design tasks. Naturally I use Photoshop for editing photos and InDesign for laying out my documents (and on the rare, exciting occasion that I’m working with print)…

#designlife — The Olympic Games, the greatest sporting spectacle in the world, where more than eleven thousand athletes compete for those shiny discs of gold, silver and bronze. The 2016 event in Rio, Brazil has provided an idyllic backdrop to some breathtaking sporting achievement. Usain Bolt coasted through the men’s 100m with…

#designlife — My father and I play squash on a weekly basis; Thursday evenings after work. It’s great fun, keeps us active and gives us a chance to catch up on things seeing as I longer live at home. Historically my dad has beaten me week in week out with a few…