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Or how good design saves lives   Between 1957 and 1963 Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert produced a graphic scheme for Britain’s road signage, their uniform and effective approach replacing [...]

Or what you don’t notice is most important   Typesetting is the art of ensuring that text layout is both aesthetically pleasing and supportive of the reading process. All print [...]

Or the use of foreign words in marketing   In Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, there is a way, known as The Philosophers’ Path, that follows a stream between the temples of Ginkaku-ji [...]

Or the excitement of meeting Japanese art   This is the first blog for a month – our excuse is a visit to Japan, where we absorbed ideas and inspirations from both historic and [...]

Or the origins of coffee   We sometimes forget that most human history is undocumented – not just the history that predates writing, but all the hopes, fears, ideas and experiences that [...]

Or finding a relic of London in a bag   I recently acquired a bag of possessions that belonged to my grandfather. Amongst the photographs and the diary entries there was a fold-up pocket map [...]