Mark Porter

Editorial design

Congratulations Público!

June 12th, 2009

A triumph for Público in the D&AD awards last night. Read the rest of this entry »

Getting things right

June 3rd, 2009

One of the reasons I’ve been so quiet recently is that I’ve just finished a 416 page book for the River Café. When you do a book like this, the publisher is officially your client, but it’s the author you have to satisfy. The River Café authors have very strong opinions, and I’ve probably compromised more with them than I have on any other project, beacuse it’s their book, I respect their opinions (up to a point) and I know that it will never come out if I don’t. But what makes it really exhausting is that they have a work style which Ive encountered a lot over the years — they will not stop changing things until the job ships. Read the rest of this entry »

Newsweek

May 20th, 2009

I’ve just picked up a copy of the redesigned Newsweek. Read the rest of this entry »

New Standard

May 12th, 2009

The London Evening Standard was relaunched yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »

Mea Culpa

April 30th, 2009

If anyone’s out there wondering whether this feed will ever spark back into life… Read the rest of this entry »

Spot the deliberate mistake

March 30th, 2009

Still struggling with broken limbs but hope to be posting more again over the next few weeks.

In the meantime, someone’s put a lot of work into this spoof of the FT website for theG20 summit. Theres also a print edition (you can download a PDF here). And there’s more coverage here.

(Thanks John-Henry)

out of action

March 16th, 2009

Apologies for lack of activity, have broken my wrist. Normal service will be resumed at some point!

Looks familiar

February 20th, 2009

An ex-Guardian designer who’s currently passing through Vietnam on a world tour sent me this pic today; that titlepiece looks strangely familiar.

I’m building up quite a collection of these now, if anyone sees any more please sent them to me!

Internazionale column (2)

February 13th, 2009

Here’s an extended version of my second column for Internazionale, about design in elite newspapers. Read the rest of this entry »

Egyptian in Sweden

February 5th, 2009

Read the story here!