david the designer

missing in the post?

Surely I can't be the only designer who looks at this poster and every time thinks "now there's a missed typographic opportunity"?

what's in my head #2

It's Friday afternoon, right? I've stopped blogging on Fridays because my visitor stats tell me that come Friday afternoon you've all sloped off to the pub, or your house in the country, or whatever else you get up to when the weekend beckons. Whatever, you all seem to stop stopping by over here.

And then Richard popped into my newsreader eulogising about David Pearson and Jonathan Barnbrook and their work for Penguin and Bowie. And I thought "yeah Richard, you're right, graphic design's got its mojo back". Not before time, either (in my humble opinion).

So I thought I ought to blog about that. You know, remembering my post from Monday:

So where to start? With Bowie, of course. And my favourite Bowie track.

What a f***ing enormous mistake that was: in my head it was his finest hour. And I should have left it there. Safe in my memory. Playing in my head - the perfect funk fusion. But, oh no, I had to search it out on YouTube.

And then the next thing popped up in my newsreader:

We're all doomed, I tell you (though not before the weekend, obviously).

what's in my head #1

I can't look at Paul McCartney these days without thinking that he's turning into Ken Dodd.