This month, computers can’t cry, David Ogilvy’s writing tips, I thought about this a lot, what was David Bowie doing at your age and Robert Darch’s photos of The Island.

As I left and went downstairs to face the credit card machine the dentist let out a cheer…

I like listening to music. It plays while I work. Since 2011 I have shared my favourite albums of the year. I hope you find an undiscovered gem here…

“To achieve great things two things are needed; a plan, and not enough time.”

David Shrigley on being happy, Paddy Gilmore on the Economist ads, sifting the essential from the inessential, beautifully savage insults, why you should ask people to “gift’ rather than “donate” and a pesky cookie banner you might like to see.

Over the weekend I dug out a brochure for Eberlin + Partners from 1970. A line on the history of the partnership resonated…

The more people you meet, the more you do in your community, the more you help, the more you smile, the more you learn, the better quality your work will be and the more you will be recommended.

Here's to the little ones. The pebbles, The rubble-makers. The ting pegs trying to fill massive holes. The ones who say things differently. They're not fond of 'cool', and they have no respect for the status show.

I watched; absorbed by the mood, the sentiment and the imagination of the ad. It respected our intelligence…

“I have worked here my whole life, but I am only now beginning to truly know this piece of land. I stumble across a field at a different time of day, or in different light, and I feel as if I have never seen it before.” (James Rebanks)

I use Instagram to look at photos by the talented people I follow but this is getting increasingly difficult to do…

“These are some of our favourite things…” A compendium of beautifully made objects. Objects with timeless design, which age gracelessly, are built with quality and are intuitive to use & fix.

When considering setting up an e-commerce store, there are many options available. For larger online stores with a variety of categories and sizes, I explain why I recommend Shopify.

“Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.”

"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke, or worried to death by a frown on the right person’s brow.”

A story about being 15 years in business, a masterclass in raising money for charity, a moving ode to Tony Wilson, tense photos from the Paris banlieues, Zen Motoring and cards for humanity.

On Monday 7th February 2022 I read three stories about stories. The three stories span 70,000 years. From the cognitive revolution, via Goya and the ‘Greater Fool’ theory, to Boris Johnson.

The Campaign Monitor email marketing benchmark report is always an interesting read. It analyses over 100 billion emails and gives us an opportunity to compare our open rates with the global average.

The one where I made the dentist cheer. Also, a very wise article on business, the absurdist humour of Puccino’s, quiet and probing portraits by Judith Joy Ross and The Southwester

We have to go beyond the confines of what we do day to day and hunt out a diverse range of ideas, designs, words and images. To collect as many different dots, so that one day in the future connections are made and something new emerges.