Cruyff famously refused to wear the three Adidas stripes adorning the Oranje shirt at the 1974 Mondial as he had a personal deal with Puma - so the company produced a bespoke effort for him with two strips running down the shoulders instead. He also insisted on wearing his trademark No14 […]

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a […]

One of my favourite bands The Super Furry Animals commissioned Japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami to produce the artwork for the album, Hey Venus, which came out earlier this year.

Apparently Tanaami had no knowledge of the band prior to him designing the artwork, and the band had to communicate […]

When Grandma gave me this jar of pickled walnuts in July it made me think about branding and how powerful and emotive it can be. Perhaps in her haste she had accidentally labelled this jar ‘Peter’s Pickled Walnuts’ and quite by chance Grandma had created her own global walnuts […]

OK, my friend Lee sent over an image today where he’d Photoshopped me in front of a TomCat plane and put a TopGun badge on my jacket. It was only a bit of a joke and it probably only took him five minutes. (Top image)

However, as soon as I […]