What (and what not) to do this year...

As it's the start of the new term I figure I need to know what to do and what not to do as regards design trends this year. Handy then that I stumbled across this lovely little manual from Elliott Scott and Christopher Doyle. Turns out everything I planned to do this year I should have done last. Behind the times? Maybe? Attempting to be intentionally humorous to fill out this blog post? Definatly.

Visit trynotto for a better look at this beautiful little booklet.

Back To School

Its been a while but, as I promised myself, I am back on the blogger trail. It's almost that time of the year when we all head back to school and, as so, I have to start working properly again. After doing numerous shite design jobs for people who know nothing about design (or even what is generally accepted as looking anywhere near nice) I will be glad to do work for people who actually know what they are looking at again. Anyway, doing some intrinsic research I stumbled across Gareth Procter. Having a need for cleanliness and preciseness I found some of his work very appealing. His '10' magazine is especially prettyful. Check it out.

Bye Bye Mill Point

After a year of living and three days of frantic cleaning, fixing, disassembling and packing the time has finally come for me to move out of Mill Point. It seems only two minutes ago when my room was last in this state and I was moving in back in September. Although I have not actually lived here as long as some I do have a lot of memories. I have been around here for 3 years now and for every night out in town I had there was always a place for me on 'my' sofa back at Mill Point(a place that was, this year, taken by a Mr Arran Murphy) It was strange enough actually coming back to my own room and no doubt it'll be weird knowing I'll likely never be back at all now.

Ah well, on to pastures new...

I Wish I Could Draw

Found this beautiful work by Robbie Porter. His website has a massive collection of his designs and illustrations. He does a lot of 'play on words' pieces that i'm loving. I'm not normally a big fan of illustrations, I appreciate them for what they are but don't normally love them. These I love. Very simple but that pleases me. If I had the money I would definitely buy some. But then again that could be said for most of the things I see on the internet.

Uncovered

I've been saying for a while I am going to start a blog but never got round to it. Well now I have. And it seems I have a good post to start with. After visiting the Dr. Me 'An Apple A Day' opening night at Common (and taking full advantage of the free gin) I then walked back past the little substation on Tib St. and thought nothing of the construction work going on. It wasn't until I spotted Alex and Scanners paying it extra attention that I noticed what it was. Apparently, a day or two earlier, what is thought to be a genuine Banksy mural was uncovered by workers clearing foliage from the wall. I was quite excited to spot it as I am a fan of Banksys work and its quite an event when you see a piece of work like this, especially in your own town. I used to walk past one of his murals nearly every day when I was at college until finally the weather (and I expect the council) washed it away. I also searched out one of the more famous ones when I was in Bristol earlier on this year (see) but it's quite exciting for me to have another one found in Manchester.

In the words of Rainier Wolfcastle...

...IT BEGINS!!