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Stocking fillers? Christmas reading list

With Christmas nearly upon us, I’ve put together a list of books for the designer in your life. Or just treat yourself.

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Weather forecast

TheWeather was sent to me back in September 2010, and I blogged about it then as I was so impressed that a magazine could be created from a subject so British. In fact, it’s us Brits that talk about the weather, but of course it affects the whole world – and that is what gives this magazine such huge appeal. Continue reading ‘Weather forecast’

A bit of type inspiration courtesy of Design Me Too

A nice and varied set of typographic treatments pulled together on the Design Me Too blog (@designmetoo on twitter)

I am only here to win by Isa

Typography on the Beeb

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10689931

Nice that the value of typography is being discussed on the BBC site – regardless of whether you agree with Tom’s take. For one thing, I would say typography was not the biggest problem I had with the movie Avatar.