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Gx

How embarrassing

About Me

I'm a Creative with a penchant for language, both visual and textual. Pick through my output like an ornithologist scrabbling through owl pellets and you'll see I'm a Graphic Designer/Copywriter.Really, this just means I get very geeky over words, and then get very geeky over which font I'm going to typeset them in.

My Interests

Macintoshes. Information design. Comedy. Wine. New exciting fresh and anarchic beers. Typefaces. The work of Armando Iannucci. Shops. Radio. Becky. The Interestingnet. IN THAT ORDER.

I'd like to meet:

The designer of the Pentel NN50. What a brilliant pen.

Music:

Air, Radiohead, Boards of Canada, Blur, The Selecter, Sugar Creek Trio, Mastodon, Wagner, The John Barry Orchestra, The Beatles, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Brain Eno, Gorillaz, Blondie, Danny Elfman, The Who, Doves, The Kinks, The Smiths, The White Stripes, Fatboy Slim, Chemical Brothers, Audio Bullys, Girls Aloud, The Streets, ELO, The Stone Roses, The Jam, Nathaniel Merriweather, The Prodigy, Michael Jackson, Supergrass, Dire Straits, REM, The Source Feat. Candi Staton, Sugarhill Gang, N*E*R*D, Elvis Presley, Graham Coxon, Sigur Ros, The Clash, Muse, Madness, Franz Ferdinand, The Rolling Stones, Berlioz, Debussy, Mr. Scruff, Daft Punk, Slade, Pink Floyd, Mousse T, The Specials, Lemonjelly, Groove Armada, Scissor Sisters, Bob Marley, The Strokes, Ben Folds and Ben Folds Five, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Idol, Sia, The Hives, Ed Harcourt, Andy Williams, Duran Duran, Squeeze, Hot Chip, Eurythmics, Polyphonic Spree, Oasis, Athlete, Bjork, The Hollies, The Ink Spots, Autechre, DJ Shadow, Johnny Cash, Kings of Leon, Barry Gray, Kate Bush, Dmitri Shostakovich, Pulp, Tony Orlando, Elbow, Led Zeppelin, Wham!, Pixies, Ian Drury and the Blockheads, Ladytron, The Libertines, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Scientist, Kiss, The Ramones, 808 State, Stevie Wonder, Gustav Holst.Oh, I'm sorry, this is MySpace.The Arctic Monkeys. Innit.

Movies:

Virgin Suicides. Back to the Future. The Godfather. Mars Attacks. Tremors. Star Wars. Ghostbusters. Batman. The Great Escape. A Very Long Engagement. Dr Strangelove.

Television:

Armando Iannucci. Lee and Herring. Comedy, essentially. Chris Morris. Tom and Jerry. 15 Storeys High. Harry Hill. Tony Hancock. Ever Decreasing Circles.

Books:

The Catcher in the Rye (JD Sallinger). The Bible (God, as told to a few other people). Where's Wally? (Martin Handford). What is Graphic Design? (Quentin Newark).

Heroes:

Sam Jones. And, obviously to a lesser extent, Susan Kare and Julian Opie.