_inspiration for Spring

*Communicate* Rick Poynor - Laurence King Publishing
The book to accompany the and masterful graphic design exhibition at the Barbican.

buy at www.amazon.co.uk

Old photographs
There's nothing like black and white. And old old colour snaps like the sort you get in 1950's copies of LIFE magazine and in Marguerite Patten cookbooks of the same period. Delicious dahling.

Big Moleskine notebook. Simple rectangle of a black cover, kept in place with an elastic band for a bookmark. On my Christmas list. Hope my partner is reading this.

buy at www.moleskine.co.uk

Hermann Miller for office fantasists. Timeless logo too. If I were a furniture designer, then I'd like to have sold all my ingenious ideas to the Hermann Miller company. One of our clients actually has an office entirely stocked with Hermann Miller products and very fetching it is too - the only one in Europe, apparently.

online at www.hermannmiller.com

Printed geometric see-through wrapping paper from Magic & Sparkle.

Cyberbilly at Atlas magazine. Genius.

check out www.atlasmagazine.com

Bloghaus. I speak German so it helps but I wouldn't venture to foreign cyber soil unless you do too - you won't get very far...

www.blogworld.de