Mark Porter

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

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 »

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

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

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

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)

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

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!

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

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