I have an alibi, you can’t prove anything.

I went a long to the private view of Wallpaper magazine’s Type Tart exhibition last night to see if my contribution had made the cut among some of the more well-known contributors.

The idea was to create a tart card – those things in London phoneboxes advertising *ahem* ‘personal services’ but dedicated to a typeface or letter of the alphabet. Lots of great *ahem* ‘entries’ there were too. I think the one below was my favourite…

Now I know I’m getting old as some were definitely a bit *ahem* ‘graphic’…

Click here to see all the pictures I took on the night.

You can also see all the entries and contributors on the Wallpaper website. There’s still a few days left to catch the show at KK Outlet, and it’s all in aid of the St Bride Library.

Oh, and yes, my design was in the show, even if nobody noticed it due to bad Feng Shui. That’s my excuse anyway…

Last week I went along to see Wim Crouwel give an iSTD talk about his work and clients. It was a celebration of the iSTD being 80 years old, but the most staggering thing is that at 81, Wim still stands as one of the most interesting and progressive designers and typographers. He’s a nice guy too.

This guy was excited about pixels before there were pixels:

He showed us a lot of his work, which he was producing from the 1950s to the present day, and it’s amazing to see things that this guy was doing 50 years ago still look cutting edge. You don’t have to have a Hoxton fin and listen to Hot Chip to be knocking out devastatingly original work, reassuringly you can just be yourself and care about getting it right.

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Yesterday was the launch of England’s bid to host the 2018 (or 2022) football World Cup. As we’ve been working on the project, we went along for the event which was very impressive, to see our work up close and rub shoulders with the stars at Wembley.

Snappy slogan eh? And a nice font too…

I even got to meet David Beckham who signed my invitation for me, nice chap…

It’s been all over the sports pages today, the campaign will be running from now until next December when the FIFA panel will decide who gets the cup. Head over to www.england2018bid.com to see how you can support the goal.

These pictures have been shamefully hidden away for far too long, so even though it’s old news I thought I’d share. A few of us from work went over to the first Typographic Circle exhibition of the run earlier this month and there were some very lovely things there. Click the thumbnails below for the whole picture.

Please excuse the blurry pictures, it was a blurry kind of evening, that’s what happens when you give designers free beer…

Well, after creating their lovely new global music identity for them, Vodafone coughed up some freebies and sent a few of us from the studio to this year’s music awards, which were the first to use the new identity.

It was a great night, not sure who won what, not sure it matters, and it turns out ‘golden tickets’ are ten a penny, it’s the platinum ones you want. The only fly in the ointment apart from Steve Jones was the fact that our icons and identity could have been implemented with a bit more imagination, but the system is new and I guess we’ll see them develop their bravery over time once it’s more recogniseable to people. It did all look lovely…

There are more photos here, and if you fancy watching the show, it’s on Channel 4 tonight at 11:25pm. I’ll be watching to see if I can spot myself…