This month the Rijks Art Museum in Amsterdam is asking visitors to put down their cameras and pick up pencils as part of a campaign to encourage people to draw things… Read More →

Two years ago I began dabbling in the world of songwriting. I spent the first year writing and recording tunes onto my laptop. Much of the second year was spent collaborating with… Read More →

As much as I aspire to have an ever simpler lifestyle I will probably never live below a certain level of comfort. But the story behind the owner of this old… Read More →

Most of the time I have a rough idea of what I want to draw before I put pen to paper. Occasionally however, i’ll just start drawing without really thinking… Read More →

As important as they are at the time, early sketches are simply a means to an end. They help to steer designs in a certain direction by a process of trial… Read More →

After extensive flooding in parts of Vancouver Island in December 2014, a water restriction was put in place which meant that cafés and restaurants could no longer offer tap water. So… Read More →

I’ve yet to see Babadook, Pride, Frank and 71, and I’m still wondering if Planet Of The Apes, Nightcrawler, Godzilla and Blue Ruin should be in there. However, this, for… Read More →

My student neighbours had the courtesy to warn me of an impending Halloween party, so the least I could do was reply.

In 1979 a large flood washed hundreds of snakes onto a barren sandbar called “Majuli Island” near the Assam region of India. The water receded the next day and without any… Read More →

There is a part of me that feels guilty about drawing people without their knowledge. Even while I’m doing it I feel a bit like I’m stealing something. Despite my emergency “quick glance elsewhere”… Read More →

In an effort to encourage young people in Australian cities to visit their parents in the country, V-Line trains and McCann Melbourne created Guilt Trips, a campaign that drew on a simple notion… Read More →

I still don’t have an iPhone. I’m not against them, I simply manage to get by without one. I don’t need to be online all the time, if someone needs… Read More →

For their very first date Nick Olson took Lilah Horwitz for a walk in the mountains of West Virginia where they  joked about how nice it would be to live in… Read More →

For her latest work artist Anna Barriball has covered the floors of a South Bristol school with hundreds of snowflakes. 720 unique stencils made by the students and staff of… Read More →

This morning has not been creative. I’ve spent much of it staring out the window chewing a pencil. And then I discovered the website of 97 year old Hal Lasko,… Read More →

I have no qualms in telling you that this will be one of the most biased book reviews you will ever read. “Tellin’ Stories” by Tim Burgess is an autobiography… Read More →

Bristol’s Playable City award encourages creatives to invent ways to get people to support, explore and enjoy the city, and this year’s winner does exactly that. “Hello Lamp Post” is… Read More →

I like to think I live fairly simply. I’m not particularly materialistic, my outgoings are minimal, I don’t have much debt, and the current “financial crisis” hasn’t hugely effected me.… Read More →

Conscious that he didn’t disturb his flat mates at night, German musician Nils Frahm recorded his first album by putting a microphone into his piano and tapping the keys as… Read More →