You’d be hard pressed not to have noticed it, but this year is the 200 year anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birthday. The Museum of London is hosting a major exhibition about his life, and to coincide with that, they’ve created a rather delicious iPhone & iPad app called Dickens Dark London. The app is an [...]

It’s a dog’s life. Eddie is an art-school drop out from Barking who likes sports, visual art and loafing by the river. He’s sort of seeing someone, but he also does a bit of rent on the side… though he hasn’t told his boyfriend Dan that just yet. Oh, and he’s also got a crush [...]

We finally made our way over to the Imperial War Museum London yesterday to check out the excellent Don McCullin retrospective, Shaped by War, that’s been running there since October. McCullin is one of the world’s most respected photojournalists, best known for his war photography (though his street photography at home in the UK, as well as [...]

People have been foretelling the death of the book for years now. Obviously, that’s not going to happen entirely, but more and more of our reading is already taking place on e-readers (Amazon’s Kindle, Apple’s iPad, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, Sony’s Reader, and WH Smith’s Kobo amongst others). The Kindle is the current king, currently available in the UK just [...]

We’ve recently been making our way through the first issue of Random Spectacular, the lovely limited-edition magazine created by the folks at St Jude’s Prints, and it’s just great. The magazine was produced in a print run of just 750 copies (all of which sold within 48 hours), the profits from which go to Maggie’s [...]

There’s been a heck of a lot of press this month about book cover design, which is a Very Good Thing. It’s often woefully overlooked in the design industry, let alone in the world at large. Most of the press comes as a direct result of Julian Barnes namechecking the designer Suzanne Dean (creative director [...]

Last week we got the chance to take a trip down into one of the many hidden parts of London, courtesy of the London Transport Museum’s Station Open Day at the now-closed Aldwych underground station. The station, on a little branch line off the Piccadilly line, has been closed since the early 90s. It originally opened [...]

This ad played out at last night at the end of BBC’s latest stunning series, Frozen Planet. It’s kind of cheesy (and with more than a hint of William Shatner’s version of Pulp’s Common People) but it’s also a touching reminder of the brilliant natural history work that the BBC, and more particularly David Attenborough, [...]

We’ve been having a bit of fog in town these past few days, so we nipped out to take a few shots…

Ever since it opened its doors a year ago, customers have been clamouring for an online store for Hoxton Street Monster Supplies. And now, thanks to the brilliant work of a team of hugely talented volunteers, the online shop is alive. And just in time, as we’ve recently created a whole new range of products for [...]

Just under a year ago, the Ministry of Stories, and its fantastical shop front, Hoxton Street Monster Supplies, opened its doors to the world. (You can read all about that on one of our earlier blog posts.) Since then, they’ve both been doing really rather well. The Ministry has helped thousands of kids with their [...]

So, as you may well know, the Design Museum in London is planning to move from its current home in Shad Thames right across town, and into the former Commonwealth Institute building, at “the wrong end of a Kensington shopping street” as architecture critic Stephen Bayley has previously put it.   The move won’t happen until [...]

Those clever Diprose boys have been at it again. Not content with producing one of the best cycling magazines around, in the form of The Ride Journal, they’ve just produced this rather lovely book/magazine, Past Present Future, for Condor Cycles. If you’re familiar with The Ride, it’s a very similar vibe – a collection of [...]

So the folks over at RIBA have announced Danish architecture, engineering and design studio Bystrup as the winner of their competition to redesign the standard British electricity pylon, with their T-Pylon design. The design was praised by the judges for managing to reduce both the size and height of the pylons, and consequently the amount [...]

Dear Apple, please can you stop designing your interfaces with these faux-leather effects? They’re horrible. Find My Friends (top) is Apple’s new stalker app on iOS 5, and its first iteration seems really clumsy – which is peculiar, given that companies like Loopt have already shown how you can do the same thing properly. iCal is [...]