New work: A fun little illustration about travel and escape for Doctor Who Magazine. I took some inspiration from 1950s American motel matchbooks.
Stuart M
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Designer, writer, publisher. All sorts. https://linktr.ee/stuartmanning
Why did the BBC and Universal fall out? Did the TVM really cost $5m? How did Segal attempt to reboot the franchise after 1996? What did he think of Bill Baggs and Jean Marc Loffier? All this and more in my chat with Phil Segal.
Dylan @ Doctor Who: Too Hot For Tv@toohot4tv.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt was 30 years ago today that #DoctorWho TV Movie was broadcast in the UK. To celebrate this, I had a chat with Philip Segal, for Doctor Who: Too Hot For For TV linktr.ee/Dylan_Rees Artwork for MayGann provided by Artfully Liam www.instagram.com/artfullyliam/
As ever, I admire Price’s commitment to the advertising/ah fuck it why not buck for projects
Join us as we share our collection of mid century Japanese lottery tickets www.instagram.com/__luckbook
Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co
Who could resist this Jill McDonald vampire puffin? Not me, anyway
a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead
This might be the worst ADR in the history of television.
Gutted about this. One of my favourite performances in one of my favourite films.
Peter Avellino@peterapeel.bsky.social · 6mo agoRIP Bud Cort.
Jeremy Bentham’s skeleton, which hangs for candelabra in the library of one of his executors
reading austen is important for a number of impractical life skills but mostly in how to call someone a wanker to their face in the 18th century — "I send no compliments to your mother" — the recipient would carry that around for 20 years and then kill themselves
The first book I can remember reading on my own. Relentless waxy porridge will conquer all.
Helen Day@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 6mo agoLadybird book in the Spotlight The Magic Porridge Pot (1971) Artist: Robert Lumley
John Alcorn, 1971. From: “Circues - A Book To Begin On,” by Mary Kay Phelan. #illustration #1970s #JohnAlcorn #MaryKayPhelan
Nigella to GBBO is, and will be, the best piece of business in the January transfer window
Getting rid of DCMS meant there was no one in government able to warn the prime minister that creatives can't live off thin air. thecritic.co.uk/brin...
‘The Shortest Day’ illustrations by Carson Ellis
50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Fanny Cradock Cooks For Christmas, her final series (and first in five years so she was probably on the way out anyway) airing every day over a working week.
Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas
A collection of traditional recipes, together with Fanny's practical know-how, make for a successful Christmas.
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A 2kg book of Olivetti’s design history. www.presentandcorrect.com/products/oli... Our final restock on these for 2025.
RIP Martin Parr. Here are two of my favourite photos of all time. I get such a Proustian rush looking at them that I can hear the “fzzt” of a can of Quatro being opened.
Bar’s open! Photographer Martin Parr Union Hotel. Manchester, 1974. Martin Parr, always making the ordinary extraordinary.
Spooky advent day 6: Krampus, a traditional figure in Central and Eastern European folklore, is basically a terrifying horned bad santa, accompanying St Nicholas on his visits to children on the night before St Nicholas' Day (6th Dec) and punishing the bad ones by whipping them with birch twigs.
when MUSCLE BEACH PARTY winds up being one of the most beautiful looking prints you’ve ever seen…
