Today I promised Jon Hickman on Twitter a story about a mix tape. As it happens I have two, so here they are.
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The year is 1985, Britain had just put the first man on the moon, spokey dokeys were revolutionising bicycle wheels, Margaret Thatcher had just released her first lingerie range and Sony had launched [...]

This week Royal Mail unveiled the 10 album covers they are releasing as stamps. This includes Tubular Bells, Led Zeplin, Coldplay and so forth. It got me thinking what MY choice would have been. After a short period of thinking sensibly I then lapsed into sarcastic and facetious, which is much more fun. So with [...]

This year we are pleased to be featured in British Design 2010 in the Design for New Media Category. It was hard to know what to put in it really, so much on screen stuff loses it’s impact when limited to the 2 dimensions of static print, unlike designs that are designed specifically with print [...]

With the bitter temperatures, cold wet ground and poor visibility you could easily be forgiven for thinking our great British Summer had come early, but no, this is winter. Hells teeth it’s cold! As britain grinds to a halt and snowboarding toddlers take over, here’s a few snaps of the frozen stuff for the record.

Of no interest to anyone else, but at the request of the family, here are the photos from this christmas.

Last night there was a cracking Halloween party at Fazeley Studios in Birmingham, luckily for us, where we work at Adhere. The evening consisted of;

the overly ornate and elaborate reception of the studios converted into a dark, candle lit dungeon of a room with cobwebs, hanging bodies, spiders and so forth
a spooky live band, dressed [...]

I was sent links to these two videos today and they cracked me up. Appologies to anyone sensitive to swearing, there is quite a bit in these, but I think this might strike a chord with many a designer…

After a disappointing summer, weather-wise, the last few weekends have given us some lovely weather so this saturday we popped up the road to the Lickey Hills (about 3 miles). Here are a few photos of us playing on the minature castle and in the woods up there. The view from Beacon Hill over the [...]

September 19th. In honour of today’s ‘Talk Like A Pirate Day’ (which I missed last year due to a salty mission to Weston Super Mare) here are a few things to get you in the mood, so to speak.
Loading, Ready, Run’s guide to talking like a Pirate. Essential viewing to avoid those social Faux pas…
http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/49/How-to-Talk-like-a-Pirate

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Second Birthday for Elliot. Trip to Thomas Land at Drayton Manor Park near Tamworth. Queues, picnics, soaking wet log flume, pitch black walzers, endless Thomas the tank merchandise, splendid sunshine, great family day out, not enough hours in the day, elated little boy, fat controller, Dimitri Miroslav Randompole fishing something out of the log flume, [...]

Derby day in Birmingham today saw Aston Villa travel to St Andrews to play Birmingham City in the Premiership for the first time in a couple of seasons. Louise is a Blues fan, I am a Villa fan and Elliot, as a result of being bought a villa shirt first by one of Louise’s friends [...]

This was flying around the office today and made the geeks amongst us smile. As simple as it is it really does sum up what most of us do who don’t know how to do something on a computer. If you’re one of the ones doing the ‘asking’ then why not try following this diagram, [...]