'What's the best piece of advice you've ever been given about graphic design?'

If I told you that by the end of this article you’d be a better designer would you believe me? It’s a bold statement and not one I make lightly but I’m willing to put your trust and my reputation on the line to share with you what could be the most useful piece of advice concerning graphic design you’ll ever hear. Even if you disagree, I’d still argue the following advice is an incredibly effective take on the design process.

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Bertha by name, Bertha by nature

All aboard Bertha, a tram with a big heart. Hot on the heels of An Occurrence on Godiva Road I’ve once again limited myself to three colours as I work on my next screenprint series. This is the first of three screens, more to come.

But is it art? Stroke chin... Now!

Coming out of a meeting with Transport for London I swung by everyone’s favourite converted (that rules you out Battersea) powerstation, Tate Modern, and saw this.

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All the legendary Airside t-shirts will be there...

From Friday 23rd April to Saturday 24th April 2010, Airside will finally be hosting a huge clearance sale of every single Airside product we’ve created since the studio began nearly 14 years ago.

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The previous attempt, now a wrinkled, smelly reminder of failure

With the first potato printing experiment having gone slightly awry, I decided to return to the medium with a slightly more focused process.

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Kitchen cupboard postcards

Returning from a holiday I’ve come to appreciate the simplicity of the postcard. There’s something about the resemblance of the medium to a very slow text message (you can fit too much into an email) that fascinates me: simultaneously throw-away and intensely personal.

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