Month: September 2012

  • Tour of Britain 2012

    The Olympics and Paralympics may have ended a few weeks ago, but that didn’t stop some world class sport from touring the country. The Tour of Britain ended yesterday, and I went to see stage eight pass through Cranleigh from Reigate to Guildford.

  • A bit of blurb about photobooks

    I was approached recently to review a book printing service by Blurb. I don’t normally write reviews on this blog, but when they offered to pay for me to print a book and weren’t interested in seeing my review before it was published, I was intrigued and the opportunity was too good to resist. I’ve…

  • Now using web fonts

    I  wish I’d tried using web fonts ages ago. I’ve just changed the site to use Rock Salt for the header and Open Sans for the rest of the text. If you’re building websites and not using web fonts, do it now. Just don’t add too many to your site or you’ll slow it right…

  • Alphabet flash cards

    I want to create an inspiring bedroom for my new daughter, and while at Whitechaple art gallery a few weeks ago I saw some nice looking alphabet flash cards for sale – “My favorite things” by San Francisco designer Lorena Siminovich – nice and big with clear print, good illustration and printed on a sturdy board – They’d look…