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  • Many happy returns

    16 March 2008

    I started this blog on Friday 9 March 2007 so Happy Birthday to Shelf Appeal. For me, blogging has been...

  • I’m a marionette

    10 March 2008

    You expect advertising to make products look as good, if not better, than they do in real life. Despite knowing...

  • Fold in half lengthwise

    22 February 2008

    Shopping centres are not what they might be. Usually nothing more than somewhere to stay out of the rain, or...

  • Britain Can Make It

    18 February 2008

    The Visual Arts Data Service is keeping me happy in-between times. It’s such a nice place to surf. Image after...

  • Russian dolls

    30 January 2008

    I was really pleased to come upon another online repository of images of vintage children’s books this week. So much...

  • Edinburgh rock

    28 January 2008

    A recent weekend in Edinburgh proved to be full of fantastic stonemasonry. Street after impressive street of great houses and...

  • Britain in pictures

    6 January 2008

    The Britain in Pictures series of books was published in the late 1930s and 1940s by Collins. It was edited...

  • His Happy Christmas

    16 December 2007

    A man can never have too many good ties or socks. These particular ‘plain or fancy’ socks come from a...

  • Mushroom & Monkey

    27 November 2007

    This time last year I was swanning around New York, celebrating a birthday in a style to which I could...

  • Knit it in Jaeger

    22 November 2007

    Chilly days and the knitting needles are twitching. Or rather, for me, the accoutrements of knitting come out onto the...

  • Typographic fireworks

    6 November 2007

    The past weekend of bonfire night celebrations made me think of a simple piece of work by John Maeda that...

  • Cartoon bling

    21 October 2007

    I never really thought about it before but where did Tin Tin shop? Those dapper plus fours, sharp brogues and...

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