North v South

Self doubt in design

Like the Kleeneze man, North V South turns up unannounced at random times in the day and then outstays its welcome.

This week the guardians of the drifting space hulk HMS NVS listen in to faded radio waves from the motherworld about a man correcting grammar on the streets of Bristol, photographs of stranded ships and Jean-Michel Jarre's French Bulldog-shaped speakers.

Rob and Jon then have a gander at their three favourite pieces of graphic design. Jon, as usual, questions the question and slides further into self doubt and paranoia. Rob drinks a couple of excellent German beers.

Pies are of the pork variety. Oh, and would you like to buy some magic dusters?

Like the Kleeneze man, North V South turns up unannounced at random times in the day and then outstays its welcome.

Whether it’s a new series, season or the hiatus has just an extended break, North V South is back. The clamours for the return of the podcast that is, and isn’t, about design have been relentless. If by relentless I mean entirely lacking, then that’s exactly what I mean.

Our good gentle hosts prattle on about what they’ve been up to over the last five weeks. They then furkle through tidbits of news they’ve kept at the back of the fridge.

It’s a good week for pies. Jon would like to adjust his score from a six to a seven. To find out more you’ll have to listen to the podcast.

Whether it’s a new series, season or the hiatus has just an extended break, North V South is back. The clamours for the return of the podcast that is, and isn’t, about design have been relentless. If by relentless I mean entirely lacking, then that’s exactly what I mean.

In the final episode of this current series North V South catches up with the presenters’ own personal projects and they ponder upon why it’s so hard being your own client.

Rob and Jon look into the continuation of the 2016 pigment wars, Google’s Blade Runner-ish image technology, McLaren’s Trump-coloured car and Ian Livingston’s return to writing Fighting Fantasy books. Jon uses the phrases “anal fistula” and “shout out”. For this, North V South apologises.

Pies are quite good this week.

See you in a few weeks!

In the final episode of this current series North V South catches up with the presenters’ own personal projects and they ponder upon why it’s so hard being your own client.

News this week includes David Hockney’s strange Sun newspaper collaboration, filter out the bad stuff with The Good News Network and an introduction to nanography, whatever that might be.

This week North V South looks at design for good. The chaps polish their halos and dive right in. The boys look at the semantics of doing good and explore what they can do, as small businesses, that will help people. They get all ranty about the Battersea Power Station redevelopment along the way.

This week’s pies are Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Steak and London Porter shortcrust and M&S Steak and Old Peculiar Ale.

The chaps polish their halos and dive right in. The boys look at the semantics of doing good and explore what they can do, as small businesses, that will help people. They get all ranty about the Battersea Power Station redevelopment along the way.

This week’s pies are Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Steak and London Porter shortcrust and M&S Steak and Old Peculiar Ale.

North V South has reached its first birthday, the very existence of which is an utter miracle.

The duo sit, wrapped in their Space Wolf furs, droning on about drones, Barnbrook, IKEA’s latest award, Lego Life and Peta’s recent bonkers broadside at the futuristic world of Warhammer 40,000.

Rob and Jon abandon their monochromatic homelands and go on a quest for a fabled colour utopia. Along the way they talk about colour perception, colour management, colour archives and why choosing colour is so damned hard.

Listen on to find out if canned pies can indeed taste nice, and why the term gluten free should never be applied to pies.