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  • 114. Design is a bumhole

    No news this week as we're just wittering on about what we've been up to. Here's some links to things we spoke about.

    • Visit Rob at Thoughtbubble
    • The Mountains of Madness by Adam Fyda
    • Disco Elysium on Steam
    • Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
    • Bosworth Toller Anglo-Saxon dictionary
    • The Putney dive-bombing incident
    • WOTW — An archive of video game maps, and the Antarctic life of an IT guy at Brr
      • 1 hr 6 min
    • 114. Design is a bumhole
      Hello. Welcome to our first episode of 2023! We're the Didi and Gogo of podcasting. So while we wait for Godot come and rummage with us through the dustbin of design and pop culture detritus.
      1 hr 6 min
    • 113. CRYPTO CHANCERS

      • Studiomate Steve illustration podcast

      • Tales from the Quarantine anthology Kickstarter shenanigans

      • Open Press Project 3D printed press

      • RIP Last Dambuster

      • Leica 2 mobile phone

      • Paranoia RPG Kickstarter from Mongoose

      • Goncherov movie - Mandela Effect

      • Rivers of London RPG

      • Fontjoy(less)

      • Lex Lofthouse December Daily UI Challenge

      • WOTW - Phil Gyford's Oo.directory of blogs

        1 hr
      • 112. Always make all the bacon

        • Jack Harrison's Koriko game on Kickstarter

        • Jon Hicks's website

        • Hoxton Street Monster Supplies and Ministry of Stories

        • Adobe XD death, Affinity 2 deal and subscription model software

        • True Grit Texture Supply's Kolormark

        • Free League Publishing's lush Vaesen RPG

        • Themeborne new Kickstarter – The Last of Us boardgame

        • Mastodon to the rescue – Find Rob on Mastodon. Jon's there too but he's not very interesting

        • Merlin Mann's Wisdom on Github

          1 hr 4 min
        • 111. What is kibbled onion?

          • RIP Kim Jung Gi

          • RIP Hilary Mantel

          • LEGO's D&D call to arms

          • James Earle Jones sells his voice for digital use

          • Lucian Freud: New Perspectives at the National Gallery

          • Paper price rises

          • Saudia Arabia hosting 2029 Asian Winter Games

          • Scrapping GDPR

          • New European cover design

          • Elon Musk buying Twitter. Again.

          • Bonnier Books brand mark by Studio Evoke and Buff Motion

          • TOPIC - How much daily graft do you put into your creative lives and are you satisfied by the output?

          • Andy Budd's soundbites

          • WOTW - The Kids Should See This

          • WOTW - Emil Underbjerg's linocut channel

            1 hr 1 min
          • 110. It's not Slough is it?

            • The Verge and The Merge

            • Patagonia given away to the Earth

            • Adobe purchases Figma for $20 billion

            • iPhone 14 Pro

            • Tech Boys are dicks

            • Mona Lisa redux from @images_ai

            • TIm Easley's thread with tips for landing new clients

            • Crush paper with residues from organic products – from Fenner Paper

            • WOTW - 1% for the planet

              48 min
            • 109. Dynamic isle flotante

              • RIP Raymond Briggs

              • Branston pickle brand refresh

              • Winchester Comics Fair is on - 26th November

              • Tattly has sold to BIC for $400 million dollars

              • New Apple stuff is unsurprisingly underwhelming and what is this strap all about?

              • Jessica Hische's The Dark Art of Creative Business virtual workshop

              • Design Principles

              • LEGO Atari VCS 2600

              • BeReal can't be real. Can it?

              • Awesome Merchandise are not so awesome

              • NEOM vertical city aka Mega-City One

              • AI art generator wins fine art prize in art competition

                1 hr 7 min
              • 108. A dog on a wheel

                • Midjourney experiments by Pascal Blanché

                • Google Lamda AI is sentient then not sentient

                • Prayer Mouth

                • Tesla Autopilot Doubt

                • Mental Canvas analogue-digital-3d thingy

                • The Fundamentals of Graphic Design Second Edition

                • Europe USB-C law

                • BLAG magazine

                • RIP Depeche Mode's Andy Fletcher and Iconfactory founder Corey Marion

                • WOTW – Dave Smyth's Below Radar

                  1 hr
                • 107. Margaret Atwood with a flamethrower

                  • New Elizabeth Line opens

                  • New branding from accountants' favourite Sage and Instagram (barely)

                  • DJI Mini Pro goes portrait (don't ask)

                  • RIP Vangelis

                  • The museum of coffee machines

                  • Project 44 following Canada's Normandy campaign

                    1 hr 3 min
                  • 106. Hwæt!

                    • The ZX Spectrum is 40 years old this year

                    • FIDO Alliance

                    • Birmingham Design Festival

                    • Creatives are professionals by Mike Reed (Sorry, LinkedIn-hosted)

                    • How to Think When You Draw 5 by The Etherington Brothers on Kickstarter

                    • Gabriel Clarke's good-turning woodturning tale

                    • Kottke is going offline

                    • NASA is a litter bug

                    • Space Dwarfs are back!

                    • ZX Spectrum online emulator – Behold The Hobbit in its 8-bit glory

                      1 hr 10 min

                    About North v South

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                    An occasional podcast that is, and isn't, about design — presented by Rob Turpin and Jon Elliman.