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03.05.26 That Was The Week That Was — 3rd May 2026
Monday morning saw us head to Düsseldorf for Beyond Tellerrand, celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, for which I’d created all the …
26.04.26 That Was The Week That Was — 26th April 2026
This week was spent finishing the titles for the upcoming Beyond Tellerrand conference, adding the music created by Tobi Lessnow. I also …
19.04.26 That Was The Week That Was — 19th April 2026
After picking up an original 1977 pressing of The Strangler's debut album Rattus Norvegicus from my local record shop, it got me thinking …
16.04.26 Creating Organic Lines and Tubes in Touch Designer using POPs
A quick post to show a technique I use to create organic like lines in Touch Designer using POP operators. I won't go into every step but …
12.04.26 That Was The Week That Was — 12th April 2026
Schubert’s imagination was unusually literary. Words released music in him: poems about desire, love, loss, solitude, the longing for rest; …
05.04.26 That Was The Week That Was — 5th April 2026
Back in 2019 I created the graphics and titles for Beyond Tellerrand — the design event run by my friend Marc Thiele. Seven years on I'm …
22.03.26 That Was The Week That Was — 22nd March 2026
I started the week playing around with some strange attractors. Kate Ertmann wrote a great post about the beauty of strange attractors, and …
15.03.26 That Was The Week That Was — 15th March 2026
We’re currently experiencing some issues setting up the Google Meet call, so we’ll be hosting the meeting on our platform, Riverside …
08.03.26 That Was The Week That Was — 8th March 2026
This week I've been deep in the weeds as I work on expanding some of the systems I use especially in respect of machine-learning. In the …
01.03.26 That Was The Week That Was — 1st March 2026
"What is the elementary particle of sudden understanding? It is the clariton. Any scientist will recognise the “Aha!” moment when this …
22.02.26 That Was The Week That Was — 22nd February 2026
"World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The …
15.02.26 That Was The Week That Was — 15th February 2026
Lots of type experiments this week, created in Houdini and also Touch Designer. In Houdini the minpos() method is great for constraining …
08.02.26 That Was The Week That Was — 8th February 2026
This week started with a trip down to London for a meeting with Mila Askarova, owner of Gazelli Art House, who've been representing me for …
01.02.26 That Was The Week That Was — 1st February 2026
"Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a …
25.01.26 That Was The Week That Was – 25th January 2026
Started the week off in a nice way with news that Cinema Redux: Metropolis had been acquired by a collector through Gazelli Art House. …
18.01.26 That Was The Week That Was — 18th January 2026
Somehow I had managed to completely miss that a new version of Touch Designer was released in October last year, complete with a new …
11.01.26 That Was The Week That Was — 11th January 2026
Whilst there was much noise above where I worked in the studio at home — with the roofers putting a new roof on the house — it was still …
30.11.25 That Was The Week That Was – 30th November 2025
This week I received a quote to overhaul and repair my 1966 Bulova Accutron Spaceview watch which I've owned since 2021. The quote arrived …
23.11.25 That Was The Week That Was — 23rd November 2025
Following an email from David Connor, Tutor for Architecture + Design at the University of Salford, I found myself on a train heading to …
16.11.25 That Was The Week That Was – 16th November 2025
This week saw me travel to New York for the third time this year. During the short three night trip myself and Gary Hustwit were revealing …
21.09.25 That Was The Week That Was – 21st September 2025
"You're very calm." One of the two sisters, and the one who wasn't as stressed as the other, said this to me as I sat on a bench at Leeds …
30.08.25 That Was The Week That Was – 30th August 2025
Bugs and Errors At the beginning of the week I noticed my site was peppered with errors and bugs. The latest version of PHP had thrown up …
23.05.25 There was a time when I used to a lot of talks in a year
There was a time when I used to a lot of talks in a year. Now I’ve cut that down to just a few, some years none at all. I still always …
19.05.25 Hope’s box opens wide Dance, sound, code intertwine, New worlds bloom anew
Hope’s box opens wide Dance, sound, code intertwine, New worlds bloom anew. Another page from my new Now Becomes Then publication featuring …
18.05.25 That Was The Week That Was – 18th May 2025
Following on from my talk last week in Dusseldorf, this week saw me take a train across the Pennines to the North East of England for the …
16.05.25 The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing
Very much enjoyed this wonderful book by Olivia Laing …
12.05.25 That Was The Week That Was – 11th May 2025
This week saw myself and Lisa head to Dusseldorf for a few days as I was speaking at Beyond Tellerrand, a wonderful design event created …
11.05.25 Pixels find their home
Pixels find their home. Another spread from Now Becomes Then, my forty page anniversary algorithmic publication, a 25 year retrospective. …
09.05.25 FOMO in NYC
FOMO in NYC. Last night saw the opening of Factory Reality @offlinenyc in the Bowery New York, curated by @mikabaronn. Whilst I couldn’t be …
01.05.25 The front cover of my latest publication is actually a data visualisation of …
The front cover of my latest publication is actually a data visualisation of the updates on my site over the years. It tracks from 2016 — …