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		<title>visual snacks: matchbox labels from Japan/China</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A selection of early twentieth-century matchbox labels purchased in Thailand – probably Japanese, made for the Chinese market, featuring lucky cats, deer, bats and other auspicious symbols.]]></description>
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		<title>sweating the small stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrating the underrated and overlooked is life-affirming. Some notes on the Boring 2011 conference.]]></description>
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		<title>the g of the bang</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firework night is not what it used to be. The folksy charm of postwar fireworks has been replaced by health &#038; safety, shock and awe.]]></description>
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		<title>escape velocity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An awful lot of very good graphic designers celebrate their success in the profession by leaving it. Is this because they cannot wait to get away from design? Surely not… A recent blog post by Steven Heller concerned one Kent Hunter, a gifted designer I met briefly in the 80s whilst working for a transatlantic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>gimme a break</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 13:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That nice Professor Cox was on TV recently (atop some picturesque mountain, waving around the Hubble’s holiday snaps) banging on about space-time being a Woonder o’ t’ Universe™. That’s true enough but down here in office/studio space, time and/or space are scarcer – time to reflect in particular. What with lunch being for wimps and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>apophenia: it’s what we do</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term apophenia describes “the unmotivated seeing of connections” with a “specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness”. Finding connections and meanings in experience – this is the most valuable part of what designers do.]]></description>
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		<title>what Captain Beefheart taught me about design</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Captain Beefheart's legacy goes way beyond music and his paintings. He represents an inspirational sense of possibility that inspires all creators, designers included.]]></description>
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		<title>eye-snacks from archive corner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<title>quality time</title>
		<link>http://www.alembic.co.uk/blog/inspiration/quality-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Post-hippy-literature inspires a life of design. Robert M. Pirsig’s book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” crystallises the concept of quality, a central part of design process.]]></description>
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		<title>book review: Marian Bantjes’ ‘I Wonder’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marian Bantjes’ ‘I Wonder' is a vivid celebration of everything that a book can be. She has singlehandedly rescued ornament &#038; craft from untimely demise at the hands of modernist graphic design.]]></description>
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