Because I bought Goldfrapp’s album last week, Amazon thought I’d enjoy ‘Cained’. Now I like Michael Caine, ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’, ‘Hannah and Her Sisters’, ‘Get Carter’, all great. But what links a thirtysomething disco chick to a seventysomething Knight of the Realm? Well it seems Sir Michael is a big chill out fan – apparently [...]

The North Circular Roads earliest adopters of ambient media, are no more. For decades Shadbolts kept motorists up to speed with the trends in the wood veneer business via their ‘Veneer Of The Week’ sign. It’s difficult to know what their the thinking was, they already had a ‘Shadbolts Veneers’ sign, so it wasn’t just [...]

Words are on the decline. Not only did the writing category of D&AD receive less entries this year than in previous years, but the style of work entered was all incredibly similar- a big picture of something clever,humorous or both, with a little logo and endline in the bottom right hand corner. Words seem to [...]

Click here for articles Being a world class hoarder, I’m often berated for taking up so much loft space with boxes and boxes of magazines, My defence is always the same – ‘They’re useful, you never know when you might need one’. Today I’ve found a use I hadn’t thought of. Paul Arden died. To [...]