I met Paula when I was fifteen. She won’t remember it, she wouldn’t have visited the record shop in my depressing midlands town very often. If she had, she might …

There’s been quite a bit of bloggage this week about last weekend’s Interesting 2008 conference. It’s originator, Russell Davies, has given a quick run-down of links and thoughts here. Wil …

Johnson banks’ creative director Michael Johnson has just contributed to an interesting project initiated by James West at Create/Reject, who asked 50 designers to name their current favourite typeface(s). Here …

This is an adaptation of a talk given today by Michael Johnson at the Interesting 2008 conference. I’ll admit that this is a slightly selfish theme for a talk; during …

Two johnson banks designers, Kath Tudball and Julia Woollams, were special judges at this year’s Central Saint Martins show – these are their notes from the day’s judging. We visited …

It’s been a musical weekend. Johnson banks has just finished the new symbol for next year’s Unplugged expo, which will be held at Excel in London as part of the …

Our inbox has been stuffed with people pointing out that this recently spotted gravestone in Highgate cemetery… …actually marks the resting place of artist Patrick Caulfield. As the Telegraph reported …

I’m just coming to the end of my third year as external examiner at Kingston University’s graphics course. It’s a course which most people would place as one of the …

Walking through Highgate cemetery last weekend we discovered this, apparently unmarked, gravestone. It wasn’t what we were expecting to see. We wondered if anyone knew who it was? If you …

We’ve spent the last two years working on our largest project yet in Japan, a space observatory a short bullet train ride out of Tokyo in the city of Sendai. …