I've been a Mark Whitfield fan since the sock club days. He's always doing interesting, slightly off-centre things. The latest is this magnificent little book about ordering food by sketching. A very reasonable £10. Another perfect stocking filler.
This little zine is absolutely gorgeous, full of top notch advice and very reasonably priced. The perfect stocking filler for the charter in your life.
There's a new Haudoo! How to stop drinking by Neil Williams. It's a wonderful, practical, thoughtful little book. Here's Neil talking about it:
I'm conscious that some of you are getting this as an email - it's a weekly digest of blog posts sent via RSS to buttondown and then emailed automatically to you. But it's not a great experience because there are always broken images at the
I've been posting videos to LinkedIn once a week for a while now. Mostly inconsequential work stuff. The things I used to write about for Campaign. I'm enjoying the discipline of it. But, I'm trying to build some buffer, get ahead of myself, have
You don't want to miss Dave's Interesting Assemble II. I've had a sneak preview and it's going to be great. it's free! Tickets are here Here's a video (sound from the desk plus slides) of Dave's
I'm continuing my quixotic habit of getting up early, sitting somewhere with a coffee and streaming a mix to YouTube. I think this morning's was nice, ambient things by Regents Canal. Not actually steamed, the phone signal wasn't up to it, but live-ish.
@yesyesmedialtd Derren Brown exposes this simple trick a TV psychic used to seemingly talk to the other side @Derren.Brown #derrenbrown #richardbacon whyareyoumoresuccessfulthanme ♬ original sound - WhyAreYouMoreSuccessfulThanMe? @andrea_carver How I animate from audio in Unreal using Vizibeat. 1. Find a band that moves on the beat (109Hz here), 2. normalize
These days, when people ask me about PowerPoint, I describe it as The Third American Art Form. 1. Jazz 2. HipHop 3. PowerPoint And I've just realised what's made me think that. It's the privilege, beginning about 20 years ago, of seeing Kevin Slavin
We had our first Interesting Assemble on Wednesday. The extraordinary Dr Helen Castor joined us to expand on her talk from Interesting in 2016. Fantastic questions from the assembled audience which Helen fielded with deep expertise. Dave 'Funkypancake' Simpson is doing the next one, on October 29th. It&
Another episode of I Saw This And Thought Of You has hit the airwaves with the esteemed Julia Whitney. Come for the RISD nostalgia, stay for the metrological eyebrow raising.