welcome to the 21st year of the 21st century

welcome to the 21st year of the 21st century

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welcome to the 21st year of the 21st century! 21 + 21 – that adds up to 42, my favourite number… …the meaning of life and everything (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy), and in I Ching the hexagram means ‘increase’. It’s a time to expand, develop, be strong, be generous, to replenish, and use wealth and resources wisely for the greater good. If only.

Woof! What a week!

Woof! What a week!

branding, festive, muse, newsletter

Pancakes, passion, promises and new beginnings, brought to us with, Lent, Valentines, and now the Chinese New Year. Gōng Xǐ Fā Cái Wishing you happiness and prosperity in the year of the Dog If you know me, you know I love my dogs, I have three. And here are my...
Epiphany!

Epiphany!

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I am a great lover of words. As a graphic designer, I’m working with them all day, moving them, resizing them, changing their emphasis with colour, or italics, or bold, or capitalisation, or kerning them, punctuating around them like a gardener tending and weeding....
2017 – Chinese New Year of the Rooster!

2017 – Chinese New Year of the Rooster!

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Gōng Xǐ Fā Cái, Hóng Bāo Ná Lái?! Best wishes for the New Year, may I have my Red Envelope please?”! OK – I won’t get any red envelopes – the customary Chinese New Year gift of ‘lucky money’ — as I am neither young nor unmarried. In recent years,...