It’s called a linen tester… They were made for the textile industry and repurposed by designers and printers for checking proofs and print. I have a newer one but I reach for this, my late Dad’s, because it’s good, and true, and it has the heft of a proper piece of engineering. What … Read More
Work on design, illustration and sketch graphics for a Sphere Unpacked guide has taken place virtually, across four time zones. With its print edition produced in Europe via online supply for local delivery, I hadn’t seen a physical copy. So my client from Sphere contacted me while in the UK … Read More
I was looking for a milliners’ head, a prop for a brainstorm. The only ones I could find were proper grown-up milliners’ equipment, which is, quite rightly, expensive because it’s beautifully made, or plastic. So I invented a flatpack one that could slot together and made some out of waste … Read More