We may be in the digital age - but this week Stan reminds us that paper and pen is still king. Last week I did a big presentation to a client I’d never worked with before. In fact we’d only met ever so briefly the previous week. As is usually the case, I chose to present my ideas as hand drawn layouts. I generally do this on A3 paper but given the scale of the project I chose to do this presentation on A2. Actually I don’t know why I’m telling you this, as the size of the ... Read More! »

Stan, what are we going to do when people are screens? I’ve heard a lot of talk this week about designing for screens. Mobile screens. Tablet screens. Touch screens. Big versus small screens. Which is all good and well. But what about me? Yes me. The humble consumer. Or as the webby wizards like to call us – the user. Why not design for us? I know it seems such an obvious thing to say, but are you doing ... Read More! »

There's nothing like a spring clean to get you thinking. I spent the last few days clearing out the cupboards in my study. We’ve lived in our house for almost ten years, so there was a lot of stuff to go through. Anyway tucked away at the back of the cupboard was something I had not seen for over five years – my print folio. Believe it or not most of the ads in the folio still looked pretty good. Sadly the same could not be said for the dusty old cd-roms of digital work. And ... Read More! »

This has been doing the rounds this last little while. But it's freaking good and needs an extra special mention and a very small ...

Juniors, meet Kieran Antill. Originally hailing from Sydney - Kieran is a Creative Director at Leo Burnett in NYC. Not only is he one of the most awarded Art Directors in the universe (voted Cannes 2010 #1 Art Director), he is also a fine artist - exhibiting in Sydney, London and New York for the last 10 years. Together with his creative partner and good mate Michael Canning, he's responsible for flippin' successful campaigns like this, this and this. We got in touch with Kieran to find ... Read More! »

April! We had our first blogger extraordinaire, Lucy Feagins from well known The Design Files. She gets a gazillion hits a month for being the go-to-girl on all matters of design, interiors, and anything new and fun in the creative world - and it definitely didn't happen overnight. With a wow-ing 96% readership being female, it was nice to spot some boys in the audience. Click here to download her tips! ... Read More! »