Woohoo!

Greetings from Berlin!

If you can see the dustballs rolling across the homepage of HipHipUK at the moment, it will be because of this project

Today I’m in Berlin at the 9-5 festival to talk about it, whether design contests are fair to designers, and Spreadshirt potential role in the future or work.  More on it soon. But check the prizes, you can win a whole years worth of t-shirts from la Fraise (something like 100 shirts!)

Where I’m sitting. Yay for blogs erosion of all privacy!

We’ll all be freelancers in a few years. Get ahead of the game. A new slice of awesomeness from the Chop Shop guys. Check out the added touch of gold foil - $25.

My favourite spam comment of the day, it is only 9:18am though:

Hello! Help solve the problem.
Very often try to enter the site, but says that the password is not correct.
Regrettably use of remembering. Give like to be?
Thank you!

No way am I giving like to be, oh no.

My favorite rad-ish post to date

“So when I start my computers in the morning, in the dawn of the office cubicle, I feel the gentle touch of the internet’s arms reaching out to hold me, cradle me, rock me ever so gently. Now where would I be without this loving touch? Staring at opposite walls for hours, waiting for the wallpaper to load? Ah the glory of it all, the glory of the world wide wobbely web lubricating our souls for the pleasantest mindfuck that ever was. God bless the internet!”

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Some people ask why I want to go to japan so badly, I struggle to find any reason why somebody wouldn’t

Exhibit A: