Date created: Summer 2008
Web Address: www.oxfamireland.org/oxjam
About the Project: I’ve just been working on a major redesign of our Oxjam site. I needed something a bit more dynamic than the flat html we used last year – our Oxjam Officer will be blogging and I also wanted to add some content-rich features like a gig [...]

Date created: August 2008
About the Project: I’m feeling very inspired by and drawn to hand-drawn type at the moment – partly because it can look unique, personal and full of a charm that computer fonts rarely have. I also am trying to make more stuff by hand and spend less time at the computer.  [...]

I found this illustration on the brand new blog So Much Pileup – run by a designer who wants to share the piles of interesting paper from his studio. As opposed to hoarding them, crazy-hermit style, like myself. See the full post for more in the same series.

I was sent a link today to the site of ‘writer who draws’ Austin Kleon today. I really love his ‘Mind Maps‘; maps of impressions and memories.
Via the Ernie Pook mailing list.

A recent episode of This American Life really struck a chord with me. I’ll just copy the relevant bit:

A couple of years ago some friends were travelling through Europe, walking through these old buildings. And these people do not know anything special about architecture, but, you know how it is when you’re a tourist. [...]