Author Grenville Hamlyn

Better than Facebook

Making stuff shouldn’t be all work. So for a bit of fun, I am creating some little cartoons that should raise a smile for all creatives.

Bletchley Park photoset

Images and textures from around Station X – the site of the wartime code breakers. Images include the Colossus re-build and various radio communications and interception paraphernalia.

Graphic design is like a wine glass

Graphic design has been likened to a wine glass. When we drink wine we barely notice the glass it’s served in. It’s the same with graphic design: people absorb the messages that graphic designers use their skill, training and ingenuity to make, yet rarely stop to think how the message is constructed or how it [...]

The power of networking

Marketing partner, Claire Scaramanga hit’s the nail on the head when it comes to networking:
I don’t go to these events with a mission to give my card to as many people as possible. I go with a mission to meet interesting people who can possibly help me at some time and who I can also [...]

Diving with seals – Farnes 2009

Filmed with a Sony PC100 Handycam in a Gates underwater housing.
The main attraction of diving The Farne Islands (Northumberland) are the inquisitive seals, which often nibble diver’s fins and generally take a look at the slow moving interlopers they find on their patch.