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Your journey and mine
| January 2011
Growing up as an architect’s son, I was encouraged to walk around with my eyes open. Quite literally: he told me to always look up as you miss all the detail at eye level.
We live in the future
| January 2011
Take a moment to look around you and you’ll see we’re continually surrounded by magical objects, systems and devices ripped from the pages of a Ray Bradbury novel.
Code Rite products
| January 2011
Ahead of his first visit to Nottingham, Texan designer Trent Walton highlights some of the most important — and quite incredible — products in his toolkit.
A note from Frank
| January 2011
Our friend Frank created a profound and rather beautiful gift out of a situation that would've crushed most of us.
Jack A Nory
| January 2011
Stories are everywhere. When they don’t exist we make up the narrative — we join the dots. We make cognitive leaps and fill in the bits of a story that are implied or missing. The same goes for websites. We make quick judgements based on a glimpse. Then we delve deeper. The narrative unfolds, or we create one as we browse.
And the moon held the poet: subjective attachment in collaborative design
| January 2011
Solitary creation gives birth to ideas with an umbilical noose; once nourishing, it now slowly strangles. How can we learn to cut the cord and free the creations we so personally create?
Establishing a visual grammar
| January 2011
Having a great idea doesn’t always translate to a great design. Fantastic, original concepts can still end up as run-of-the-mill executions, merely leaning on recent trends and contemporary visual approaches.
Critiquing academia
| January 2011
I am sat, staring into middle distance, totally aghast. It’s Friday afternoon on the first week of university and we’ve just been given an assignment. “You must produce a portfolio website, derived from these templates, which will house your work for the following three years.” I’m sorry — what?
The centrefold!
| January 2011
Seeing as we made a newspaper, Greg thought it'd be nice to have a traditional centrefold full of cartoons and silliness. He was, of course, the right man for the job.