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Form Follows Function
Bauhaus-inspired design journal. Primary colors, hard geometry.
poster
Anatomy of a Poster: Open Workshop Day
One poster for an invented open day, taken apart with eight numbered annotations. Where each shape sits, why the red is where it is, and what I would change.
exercise
The Three-Shape Exercise
A circle, a square and a triangle on a single sheet, ninety minutes, three colours. The brief I set every year, the rules, and the five ways it usually goes wrong.
typography
Typefaces Are Only Geometry
A circle, a square and a triangle will build most of the alphabet. Then the letters stop looking right, and that failure is where type design actually begins.
ornament
Why Ornament Lost an Argument
A short, one-sided case for why plain form won the workshop floor a century ago, and why the argument is worth re-running every time you reach for a flourish.
grid
Building a Grid from a Square
Every layout I trust started as one square. Divide it, fix the gutter, and the page is already decided. A method in six steps, with the arithmetic shown.
colour
Primary Colour in Interface Design
Red, yellow, blue, black and white. A design teacher explains why the first palette a student gets is the smallest one, and what each colour is allowed to do.