Category Archives: information

Backing up…

Posted on August 6 2007 | Leave a comment

I’m finally following my wise Dad’s advice and am making a backup. Off to Dublin in a day or two and taking the laptop, so I figured it would be good to back things up.Let’s hope I don’t need it… 

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Posted in ideas, information, work

Read all about it…

Posted on July 23 2007 | 1 Comment

Read all about it…<p>

Even by their fairly hyperbolic standards, this is an entertainingly over-the-top headline from the Evening Standard. I wasn’t worried by it, perhaps because we live on a boat (though shortly after buying our boat, a relative asked me worriedly “but what if the Thames floods?”)

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Posted in information, london, politics

Fail to plan, plan to fail

Posted on May 31 2007 | Leave a comment

I’m a bit of a fan of the above maxim. I feel much better about getting on with things when I have a clear and reliable system for planning what I’ll be up to. However, this desire to plan, coupled with my general propensity for bits of stationery, has meant I’ve chopped and changed systems quite a few times.

For some time, I lugged around a fairly unwieldy A5 size filofax. I liked the way I could file papers of any size easily, but found to just too big! I also dabbled with electronic PDAs but never really got on with them.

Now working happily with a Personal size filofax- let’s hope it stays the course! Rachel is a bit sceptical and is convinced I might change again soon…

I’m hopeful that I can resist the urge to fiddle and just get on with it.

(For those of you who have been/are fettling with your planner, there’s a world of sites and blogs out there!)

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Posted in compendium, information, work

Good design is invisible

Posted on March 24 2007 | Leave a comment

Graphic design is ubiquitous in this age of information. But the best design is invisible- it should serve up delectable content without fuss, like Jeeves dishing up a kipper to a grateful Bertie Wooster on a Sunday morning.

I don’t think this means good graphic design is ‘non-design’, or even plain, just that it should quietly enhance its message, not detract from it.

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Posted in design, information, kippers