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Archive for December, 2011


A very merry Christmas


Here’s to a well deserved Christmas break. I hope you enjoy Christmas and new year, and that you return feeling refreshed. This year’s Christmas cards were foiled onto candy pink GFSmith Colorplan stock and are now in the post, so if you’re a client, colleague, collaborator, comrade or crony you should hopefully receive yours soon. If not sorry, I blame Royal Mail!

With thoughts for those not as fortunate as ourselves, Very Own Studio has made a donation to Crisis: The national charity for single homeless people — who are very busy at this time of year.

See you on the other side.


Design Assembly 3 book



Last week I had the opportunity to attend the launch of DA3, a book celebrating the end of three years of the design discourse website Design Assembly.

The book (there are actually three of them bound together) is so much more than just a beautiful example of what can achieved in print. Divided into several sections including Design Discourse, Inspiration, Showcase and Good Design, the book acts as an archive of the articles presented on the Design Assembly website from the past three years and also includes readers’ comments.

If this wasn’t enough to whet your bibliophilic* appetite, all proceeds from the sale of the book go to an excellent cause, fighting cancer (Cancer Research UK, LIVESTRONG and WCRF International). Well done to everyone involved. Buy one here.

*There’s a word I don’t use every day!