Some beautiful typographic illustrations for a series of poster designs for the New York Summer Streets festival by Chris LaBrooy. More available here: http://www.chrislabrooy.com
The Sunday Times have done a very clever thing indeed. Faced with the challenge of promoting their 2011 Rich List the Times have created the ultimate social ego boost – The Social List. Simply connect your social networks to the site (currently it’s allowing Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and FourSquare) and then […]
Last night’s lesson went well for a change. Having spent what little time I’ve had available to practice this last week on perfecting scales and chords they went fine as expected. However sight reading was a particular pain as usual so in the 4 weeks(ish) left until the Grade 1 ABRSM exam I’ve decided to look into how best […]
A really interesting article in The Guardian today; “Study finds huge gender imbalace in children’s literature”. The author points to a number of children’s classics such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the Cat in the Hat, Peter Rabbit and Babar which is a rather selective list!
New research has found, with the gender […]
There’s some lovely typographic styling and photography for Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty film on the official website. Be sure to look at the official site and watch the haunting and beautiful trailer.
AIDA involves an understanding of the city beyond what can be seen through the windshield, incorporating information such as business and shopping districts, tourist and residential areas, as well as real-time event information and environmental conditions
AIDA is a joint research project between Volkswagen of America and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to produce […]
Tuesday’s piano lesson seemed to be going well which made for a nice change. I’m learning with a wonderful teacher called Jo Montague-Smith and we interrupted scales practice to discuss my recent change of mind about taking the ABRSM Piano Grade exams.
When […]
Hi! I’m Richard Hiscutt, Founder & Creative Partner of Fantastic Thinking & co-creator of two girls and a boy…
Here you’ll find thoughts around being a geek dad, some inspirational design & creativity work from around the world as well as a few frustrated posts about finally getting around to learning to play the piano…




