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Font Friday – St Marie

If you’re after a font that’s lightweight, legible but with a little flair, then this might be the font for you. Such sophistication deserves a French sounding name – let me introduce you to St Marie (light) which is in fact…

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Design Typography

Font Friday – Big Top

Circus posters are always a great source of inspiration for any graphic designer – they’re there to grab the attention in the most bold and colourful ways and the more fancy and outrageous they are, the cooler they look!…

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Design Inspiration Typography

Font Friday – Janda Script

I have a fair few addictions in life (coffee, Marmite, lipsticks, crime fiction, stationery – to name a few) high up on that list is fonts! In the olden days I hand laid hot metal type and worked as a…

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Design Life Photography

June favourites

How different sorts of tears look totally different close up. Spotify has been my saviour this last month or so – I feel so dispirited with the music played on radio nowadays, it’s just not for me. Now I have collected so…

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Design Typography

Rejoice!

Whilst I often buy things just for the packaging, I do actually put some store in what the product is/does etc. One such recent purchase and something I’ve been loving lots and lots is this amazing face cream… …and…

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Design Digital Photography

Success

Is this a humblebrag? I hope it’s not, it’s not meant to be. It’s meant to be an explantion for all the tumbleweed round these parts of late. I realise now that whilst I had ‘a plan’, it was…

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Design Life Photography

June favourites

This month I was made to add another number to my age, another candle to my cake; I am now 6.63324958071² I love June – not because of birthdays but because of all the light and colour and flowers!…

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Design Life

This other thing that I do

If there are periods of quiet here on the blog then it could very possibly be because I am tied-up with this other little endeavour I’m about to reveal to you (because, you know, having a full-time job, writing…

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Design Inspiration

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

I went to the cinema last night to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy which I loved a lot! It’s basically a spy film but the opposite of a James Bond film – there’s no glamour, the colour is washed…

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Design Inspiration

Autumn colour

Whatever your views on the end of summer, the designs, colours and textures that appear at this time of year are simply yummy! Monsoon | Hawthorn cross-body bag | £60 Etsy | Fantastic Fox Hat | $25 ASOS |…