Remember when you used to draw your logos with a pencil? Check out Bob Truby’s Brand Name Pencils if these days you’re more familiar with a mouse or Wacom pen.

I keep finding interesting things on the internet, deciding that I’d like to own one, looking desperately around for the ‘buy me’ button and then realising that it isn’t a product at all, but an inspired idea from a designer which hasn’t found its way into production yet.

The latest case of this syndrome is the Peg Pencil from Japanese designer Yuta Watanabe. There are more equally lovely things on his site.

But no ‘buy me’ button…

In order to spread the festive cheer, I thought I’d dig out this old Christmas card I designed in a previous life at Mystery. It’s still one of my favourites…

Happy Christmas everyone!

Design studio Bunch are running a project inviting designers to come up with a visual response to their logo as part of their new identity. There are an impressive (and less impressive) array of entries so far, with names such as Malcolm Garrett and Stefan Sagmeister in the list. I chose to take their Letter B as it reminded me of the end of a pencil. Entrants were also asked to sign their work, so my signature became part of the design.

The logo looks like this:

See all the entries at www.madeinbunch.com