Mother's Day Palette

Mothers Day Colour

The front cover of the Asda magazine for March 2010 looks delicious. So delicious I have kept it in plain sight on the coffee table for weeks. Mouthwatering domestic bliss with four fairy cakes on a pink plate and it shouts Yummy Mummy for Mother’s...

Details
The Pan-African Flag

Colours in Context

Sometimes I am attracted to an artefact purely because of its colours. I have often wondered why I can be  so taken with the beauty of a thing. When this happens I create a palette of the colours to try in some way to preserve them. Colours attract us not purely because of the combination...

Details
The Mundaneum

The Mundaneum of Francois Schuiten

Paul Otlet dreamed from an early age of capturing all human knowledge in a bibliographical system. Together with Nobel peace prize winner, Henri La Fontaine, he created the Mundaneum in 1910, an immense catalogue of hundreds of thousands of index cards. A uptopian “city of reason” later housed within the magnificent Palais du Cinquantenaire, in...

Details
Royal Mail's Royal Society Stamp Designs

The Royal Society of Brainstormers

Postage stamp design is a meticulous, formal, and public art offering a tiny window on a vast world....

Details
Mythic Creatures

Mythical Creatures of British Folklore

Postage stamp design is a meticulous, formal, and public art offering a tiny window on a vast world....

Details