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19/07/2026

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[Long one this] At the beginning of June I was on the train to Birmingham Design Festival for a festival themed ‘change’...
16/07/2026

[Long one this] At the beginning of June I was on the train to Birmingham Design Festival for a festival themed ‘change’. Funny, because I was hoping for absolutely no change whatsoever. BUT ALAS. About an hour in, texted asking if I would sub in with a talk after a speaker pulled out. In this moment I had become the change.
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Obviously, my organs held a meeting. I’m realising the value in wrinkling the bedsheets of my brain, and doing the opposite of my immediate gut reaction. So I said yes. I found an old deck in the swamp that is my Google Drive and sent it over. From stepping off the train I had 30 minutes to remember what on earth I’d made. The talk ran over, so I kept going until I was waved off. It was a real buzz. The kind you get when you buy an Easter egg and find it’s completely solid inside.
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It was called Acts of Change: a talk about my career, my own journey, and working in an industry that changes almost daily. The relentless little news goblin.
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Before 2025 I didn’t do public speaking. Then, with encouragement from Luke Tonge and the BDF team, I did my first proper talk to 1,000 people on ‘Play’. Since then I’ve taken it up and down the country, and somehow to Toronto for RGD | Design Community, Inspiration & Advocacy.
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I’ve never been the guy who’s all, ‘you must listen to my serious point about design.’ Come on. It’s design. Wind it in. For me, design really is about people. And people carry chewy, uncomfortable things around beneath their skin bags.
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The point isn’t ‘do the thing that scares you.’ It’s: understand the thing that scares you. Treat it like a design brief. For me it was deeper than imposter syndrome. It was dyslexia, labels and an education making me feel small. I owe a lot to Isobel, my wife, for the space and support.
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I’ve grown a lot through this. Maybe one day I’ll write about the journey that changed that in me. Maybe I won’t. But yeah. It went alright. After all, it was ‘JUST’ a talk, I guess.
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Ps. Smugly, I’m now a big whiny BDF nepo baby. I’ve spoken for BDF three times: festival, conference and symposium. Sucks for them.
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Photography: Angela Grabowska

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10/07/2026

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OUT NOW! Volume № 4 Summer — The Guardian Long Read magazine. Ten stories from the vault of the Guardian’s Long Read.↓
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08/07/2026

OUT NOW! Volume № 4 Summer — The Guardian Long Read magazine. Ten stories from the vault of the Guardian’s Long Read.
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This thing is wild. Finished in a four-colour Pantone print: three fluoros — yellow, blue and orange — plus black, with spot varnish on linen-embossed stock. 💛💙🧡
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Cover illustration by
Issue 4 art director: 
Chris Clarke | Alex Breuer
Editors: Clare Longrigg
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If you buy it from my link in bio you can also add Volume 2 and Volume 3 to your reading collection, with a 20% discount.
(Heads up, stock is super limited)
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The beautiful people that make it happen:
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Illustrations by: Juanjo Gasull Alex Mellon R. Fresson Illustration Lisa Sheehan Giulio Bonasera Vyara Boyadjieva Michelle Thompson Lynn
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Writing by: Peter B Mark Blacklock, Atul Dev, Sophie Elmhirst tom_lamont_journalist Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, Aida Edemariam .morris11 bone-eyed bozo
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Publishing and production:
(last issue boo!) Jade Lovitt Dave Kirwin
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Magazine photography:

Yo! We did another one! This one’s about summer and has red things on the cover. Out tomorrow inside The Guardian We als...
26/06/2026

Yo! We did another one! This one’s about summer and has red things on the cover. Out tomorrow inside The Guardian

We also have our usual Feast mag this week. Also with the same red things. Someone’s gonna have to change. 
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Issue two: The Guardian food quarterly
Editors:  annaberry
Photography & styling direction Tabitha Hawkins
Art Directors:  Chris Clarke | Alex Breuer
Cover:

24/06/2026

Another June. Another heatwave.
Looking back through a decade of climate covers I’ve worked on, I’m reminded that there’s no single visual language for climate change.
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Different approaches, same goal: to cut through the noise and make the reality land. Because when a message looks the same for too long, people stop seeing it.
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And I really need you to start seeing it.
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Designed with: @ and

Thrilled that ‘The Alternatives’ picked up GOLD at the 47th edition of the Awards. Sharing a glimpse of my son’s drawin...
27/04/2026

Thrilled that ‘The Alternatives’ picked up GOLD at the 47th edition of the Awards. Sharing a glimpse of my son’s drawings in my notebook. Unexpectedly the spark behind the covers of the magazine. Later drawn by his hand.

Designed to be read from both sides:
Small things for a better you.
Big things for a better planet. 🙂🙃
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Here’s what the judges said:
‘The judges were thoroughly impressed by “The Alternatives”, calling it an ambitious, exciting, and brilliantly conceived piece unlike anything typically seen in magazines, with jaw-dropping surprises and flawless moments throughout. They particularly praised the masterful use of two-color design, the interactive element of turning the book around halfway through as a meaningful thematic choice, and the exceptional attention given to every single page, singling out the “Capitalism is a Planet Killer” spread as a standout.’
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Highlighting a handful of illustrations inside our new seasonal lifestyle magazine, The Food Quarterly. Perfect-bound a...
13/04/2026

Highlighting a handful of illustrations inside our new seasonal lifestyle magazine, The Food Quarterly. Perfect-bound and beautifully put together, it celebrates what, how and where we eat. Free inside the newspaper four times a year.
Now moving swiftly onto the Summer edition. ☀️
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It’s been so busy I completely forgot to shout about the launch of our new seasonal lifestyle magazine, The Food Quarte...
13/04/2026

It’s been so busy I completely forgot to shout about the launch of our new seasonal lifestyle magazine, The Food Quarterly. Perfect-bound and beautifully put together, it celebrates what, how and where we eat. Free inside the newspaper four times a year.
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Highlights from the first issue include a masterclass with chef in her home kitchen, seasonal recipes from , baker
 and award-winning author , a column on home cooking from baker .tandoh , cookbook reviews from and chef testing and rating knives.
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