Posts from September, 2009

The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 5 – Think of the Children!

While the weary lamp-posts of the country already heave 'neath the strain of alarmist, reductive, populist, faux-chummy, batshit and...

Images that Make Me Want to Cry: 3 – Great Coffee, Great Friends

Look, we all hate ourselves. You. Me. The postman. The elderly woman you sat beside on the bus this morning. We all sob ourselves to...

Images that Make Me Want to Cry: 2 – The Confused Clipart Stickman

A curious feature of ubiquitous images is this – as soon as you notice the ubiquity, concrete examples become hard to find. One...

Images that Make Me Want to Cry: 1 – The Corporate Handshake

Once, in a former life, I taught "Business English". Really. I taught students proper forms of address. I taught them formalised small...