North v South

This week’s episode is filled to the brim with mince. That’s enough about our hosts and, so, on with the show.

North V South doesn’t let British rail and broadband providers’ ineptitude get in the way of producing another show that is and isn’t about design.

In episode 38, news this week includes a look at the Frankenstein’s monster of Apple’s new festive ad. Rob asks whether the new Hockney windows at Westminster Abbey are going to look out of place? And Jon asks if VR is going to change the art world? (Answer: no.)

Today we climb on board the USS Palomino and journey into cultural black holes. There’s a difference in approach between the known unknowns Rob) and the unknown unknowns (Jon). Rob fares better as Jon couldn’t figure out what the unknown unknowns were because he didn’t know.

Pies are then reviewed.

North V South doesn’t let British rail and broadband providers’ ineptitude get in the way of producing another show that is and isn’t about design.

North V South is full of love this week. This week we explore the ifs, whys and wherefores about loving design. Listen to the chaps turn a simple question into an existential primal scream.

Jon ties together news items about IKEA, Noam Chomsky, Speedball 2 and a corrugated ruler. Rob can only gaze upon proceedings in awe while wearing a folding bike helmet that looks like a Christmas decoration.

An M&S roast chicken pie and a huge beef pie are today’s special guests.

Jon ties together news items about IKEA, Noam Chomsky, Speedball 2 and a corrugated ruler. Rob can only gaze upon proceedings in awe while wearing a folding bike helmet that looks like a Christmas decoration.

An M&S roast chicken pie and a huge beef pie are today’s special guests.

We’re back. Before you even noticed we’d gone. The world may have changed inexorably in our absence but we’re still banging on about the same old rubbish, so listen on, dear listener…

News this week looks at Toblerone’s gap in the market, Kingsmill bread and a Lego Yellow Submarine complete with Fab Four Minifigs.

The chaps then talk about their pet hates. Get ready for a moanfest.

Ding dong. Rob gets all Christmassy this week with his pie. It is November after all.

We’re back. Before you even noticed we’d gone. The world may have changed inexorably in our absence but we’re still banging on about the same old rubbish, so listen on, dear listener…

In this special Hallowe’en episode we fail to mention Hallowe’en once. Spooky!

This week the all-seeing eyeball roams over Hogarth’s Gin Lane reimagined, Somerset House’s fillip for artists, Vine’s demise and, finally, rants over a rash of pretentious Kickstarter campaigns. Frenzied!

Rob explores the ins and outs of selling your own work as an illustrator. He uses words like monetise. Shocking!

Pies this week include a vegetarian pie from a butchers. Horror!

In this special Hallowe’en episode we fail to mention Hallowe’en once. Spooky!

“Communication let me down, And I’m left here.” So said Spandau Ballet. It was about the only time they ever made any sense. Good video too. Where was I? Oh yes, this week the chaps are talking about how they communicate with clients – or not as may be the case.

Yo! News this week includes a Japanese-themed rebrand for the UK-based sushi chain. A truck with video screens built in to reduce road deaths. And a snappy new logo for Kodak predictably plucked from the archives. But what packaging!

This week’s pie was sent to us by Mike Sullivan, top designer and top chef too, it turns out. The venison, skirt, onion and mushroom pie scores a whopping 19 out of 20. Sensational. He’d even put fancy lattice bits on the top.