North v South

Baaaaad Design: Not bad design in terms of taste, but design for evil. Have you ever designed the packaging for a death ray gun? Or designed the branding for the new build lair of an evil genius. Or maybe you've designed a mailing list signup checkbox that defaults to checked on a form. Our ministers of gloom discuss what makes bad design.

News takes the form of a wingéd serpent and spews forth its foul breath of portent – in which you'll find an all-female line up for 2000AD, why a low value of art equals theft, and an Anthony Burrill book from new imprint Volume.

LOTR: Chapter 3 – Three is company

Links:

• The Owl Service by Alan Garner
• 2000 AD Publishing First All-Female Sci-Fi Special
• Falcon Heavy rocket launches
• The Follower Factory - The New York Times
• Brendan Dawes - On Valuing Artists
• Look & See — Volume
• India Street Lettering

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We say goodbye to Mark E. Smith with a new jingle that doesn’t break copyright law. Jon’s got a right cob on and Rob’s wrestling Hippogriffs while watching Godfather I & II.

In a news special our hosts talk: Secret army bases, SLR camera revival, Tolkein-esque maps, jars of Nutella, and sage advice for design graduates.

Jon’s pie this week is disqualified for being a thinly-veiled quiche and Rob picks a repeat winner.

LOTR: Chapter 2 – Shadow of the Past.

Links:

• Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases | Technology | The Guardian
• Black Hammer Volume 1 by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston
• Algorithm designs seven million different jars of Nutella
• Noma Bar interview
• Middle Earth's Maps
• The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch
• The perils of trademarking logos
• Emotional support peacock
• Now You See It and Other Essays on Design by Michael Beirut
• Reflex: Bringing back the analogue SLR camera by REFLEX — Kickstarter
• The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall by Steve Hanley
• PENTATONIC HUSKY PHONE CASE
• Asmodee Editions Timeline British History Card Game

Jon’s got a right cob on and Rob’s wrestling Hippogriffs while watching Godfather I & II.

In a news special our hosts talk: Secret army bases, SLR camera revival, Tolkein-esque maps, jars of Nutella, and sage advice for design graduates.

Jon’s pie this week is disqualified for being a thinly-veiled quiche and Rob picks a repeat winner.

LOTR: Chapter 2 – Shadow of the Past.

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In the Palantír this week: Ben the Illustrator’s illustrator survey, the last pencil factory, Nintendo’s Switch to cardboard, and backward-facing books.

The Guardian has had a redesign. North V South takes a look at what’s changed.

Pies this week are from Pieminister and Marks and Spencer. Then it’s onto the first chapter of The Lord of the Rings: An unexpected party.

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A podcast about, but not about, The Lord of the Rings.

Three rings for the Clients who call on Skype,

A podcast about, but not about, The Lord of the Rings.

Happy New Year podcast fans. Here's a new episode in which our hosts reflect on another step forwards towards certain death.

News this week include faulty chips, and design news that doesn’t really tell you anything other than there’s not a lot of news about design.

Was 2017 a bad year? Will 2018 be a good year? You decide! The chaps talk goals and resolutions. Join them as they tick of the failures.

Also the hosts announce their most ambitious feature yet; Read a book one chapter at a time and then talk about it. Shut the door!

Pies are Christmas and Moroccan-related.

Happy New Year podcast fans. Here's a new episode in which our hosts reflect on another step forwards towards certain death.