Being a smart arse

Lots of quotation marks

Learn here how to get quotation marks right. Or wrong.

Be warned. I’m about to have a rant. Something is tickling my inner demons. And has been for the last 20 years at least. I just can’t take it any longer! Things must be said.

If you’re not, unlike me, a graphic designer with OCD, you might laugh because it’s a teeny-tiny problem. Yes, they are teeny-tiny things, though for me as enjoyable as a swarm of gnats. I’m talking about quotation marks. Or more to the point, the straight – also more accurately called dumb – quotation mark.

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Harry Potter and the Design of Graphics

House of MinaLima

It’s been a while since my last blog (I’ve been busy freelancing) but today I’m coming back with a bang …or shall I say, a swish and flick!? To cut a long story short, I’ve been to visit the House of MinaLima, an old townhouse in the heart of London’s Soho that hosts an exhibition of the Harry Potter movie graphic art – and it blew me away like a Weasleys’ Wildfire Whiz-bang!

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