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Whale of a time
I’m enjoying an occasional dip with Moby Dick, courtesy of a great project by artist Angela Cockayne and writer Philip Hoare. Moby Dick: Big Read presents an online version of Melville’s book, with...
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A Christmas Cracker
Ted Dewan posing outside The Story Museum. Recent renovations at The Story Museum, Oxford, have unearthed an infernal writing machine that predates the invention of the word processor by 150 years....
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Apostrophegeddon
Mid-Devon Council debates banning apostrophes from street signs because of the potential confusion they cause. The Apostrophe Protection Society thinks the motion is appalling, disgusting and...
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City of Literature
UEA, Norwich. 26 Norwich Writers, the latest project from 26, has just gone live over here. It’s a collaboration with the Writers’ Centre in Norwich. Here’s how they describe it: Norwich is a UNESCO...
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Typographical salvage
Fellow typophiles and letterati might want to direct themselves to Glyphics Signs on Leonard Street, EC2, right opposite the LASSCO architectural salvage yard. The company makes all manner of signage...
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Second Person
Earlier this year I was asked to write a personal piece about Ian McEwan and Norwich. It was to be part of a project, called 26 Norwich Writers, marking that fine place becoming England’s first City...
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Less is more…more or less
I’m still buzzing from the D&AD Awards Ceremony at The Roundhouse in June. It was extra brilliant this year because Neville Brody (D&AD President and founder of the Anti-Design Festival)...
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Slave to the rhythm
I recently judged D&AD’s Writing for Design category. While browsing the tables of entries I bumped into Brazilian journalist Claudia Penteado, who was there to write about the work entered and the...
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A Fourth World
A few weeks back my wife – Lesley Katon – and I were sitting up a hillside in Italy pondering what she might say to the friends due to gather at her 50th birthday party. She wanted to capture her...
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The Serious Business of Stories
A few weeks back I had the pleasure of speaking to 180 fellow writers at the Professional Copywriters’ Network’s second conference. Terrific the conference was too, with a smart, friendly audience who...
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