North V South

The Podcast that is, and isn't, about design

About the show

A podcast from two English graphic designers. One from up North. The other one from down South.

They talk about design, illustration, technology, books and pies. Most of the time. More often than not.

Sometimes they might have guests. Sometimes, and more often than not, they won’t. But there will always be pies.

Always pies.

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Episodes and Blog Entries

  • Episode 98: Not much demand for herding

    Episode  |  November 28th, 2019  |  Season 4  |  57 mins 2 secs
    design, illustration, north-v-south

    Episode 98 is piping hot and cooling on the window sill. We take a peek under the crisp pastry lid of the zeitgeist and find cyber trucks, Chris Ware comics, lovely stationery shops, board games a go-go, cartoon nihilism, and the inner gubbins of pies.

  • Episode 97: Uncleftish Beholding

    Episode  |  November 15th, 2019  |  Season 4  |  52 mins 16 secs
    design, illustration, north-v-south

    We ask the questions that the Conservative and Labour parties are too afraid to ask: What kind of casserole would Darth Vader eat?

  • Episode 96: A long discussion about eggs

    Episode  |  October 10th, 2019  |  Season 4  |  50 mins 58 secs
    design, illustration, north-v-south

    Get ready to shed 96 tears. We're back.

  • Episode 95: Pumping yourself on the sofa

    Episode  |  September 12th, 2019  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 42 secs
    design, illustration, north-v-south

    You want eclectic. We deliver. Our Deeply Unintelligent™ AI units have digested the internet and spend an hour talking about a whole load of utter nonsense.

  • Episode 94: People are stupid

    Episode  |  August 5th, 2019  |  Season 4  |  50 mins 20 secs
    design, illustration, north-v-south

    A ruined building stands alone, wreathed in vines, wrapped in mystery. Its cracked portico reveals a dark and brooding entrance, occasionally brightened by a pulsing red dot of light. Inside lurks Episode 94 of the podcast that is, and isn't, about design. Lost in time. Forgotten by civilisation. Waiting. Just for you…

  • Episode 93: Go outside and act like a turkey

    Episode  |  July 5th, 2019  |  Season 4  |  48 mins 4 secs
    design, illustration, north-v-south

    Hello. It's us again. We continue to creep towards a hundred much like Geoff Boycott in his pomp.

    This week we talk about, in no particular order: model robots, LEGO Space, Worzel Gummidge, notebooks, touch typing, Mac Pro, sweet wrappers, knots, the evils of social media, and, biensûr, pies.

  • Episode 92: Back to the fog and bad food

    Episode  |  May 29th, 2019  |  Season 4  |  52 mins 8 secs
    design, illustration, north-v-south

    Roll up, roll up. Listen to a dog drinking beer. From Belgium. The beer, that is. The dog's from England, mate. In other news: Panic's Playdate, BT's new look, Manga at the British something or other, Microsoft browsers, Shanghai bookshops, and, naturellement, pies.

  • Episode 91: Why, why, why, why, why, why

    Episode  |  May 10th, 2019  |  Season 4  |  51 mins 9 secs
    design, illustration, north-v-south

    This week's podcast focuses on things we make that have no real worth. Many would say that covers this podcast and they're probably right.

    We look at recent news items that follow this trend; such as re-edits of 42-year-old children's films, speculative architectural visualisations, and self-digitising notebooks. "Why, why, why, why, why?", asks one of our hosts.

    But without making things that seemingly have no worth, how would we end up with beauties like x6udpngx?

  • Episode 90: Zombie Pie

    Episode  |  April 26th, 2019  |  Season 4  |  59 mins 51 secs
    design, illustration, north-v-south

    Welcome to the first episode in a new series of North V South: the podcast that is, and isn't, about design.

    We're talking taking breaks, blue plaques, iMacs, Kellog's, Capcom and Hellboy, among many other bits and bobs of design-related ephemera. Give us a whirl. You never know, you might like it.

  • Episode 89: Cheese and kimchee

    Episode  |  February 15th, 2019  |  Season 3  |  58 mins 2 secs
    design, illustration, north-v-south

    This week's episode involves an almost 100% news-free mega rant which spirals off into Jodorowsky's Dune, wordless novels, giant spiders, martinis and, of course, pies.

  • Episode 88: Mutually Sporadic

    Episode  |  February 8th, 2019  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 8 secs
    design, illustration, north-v-south

    This week the chaps take a gander at the new ultra-post-rationalised Netflix ident, a risable Walkers crisp packet redesign, a Linea Sketch review, and Phillip Sulke's superb tanker photography.

  • Episode 87: Moldy Warp Speed

    Episode  |  January 25th, 2019  |  Season 3  |  53 mins
    design, illustration, north-v-south

    Comics / Tabletop Games / Slack Attacks / Elastic Brand Podcast / Dieter Rams / Pies and more…

  • Episode 86: From the depths of my chest freezer

    Episode  |  October 31st, 2018  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 9 mins
    design, horror, illustration, north-v-south

    It's Hallowe'en and the portal has opened between the now and the never never. But enough about Rob's bowel movements…

  • Episode 85: Bollocky font stuff

    Episode  |  October 22nd, 2018  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 5 secs
    design, illustration, north-v-south

    This week's episode of the podcast that is and isn't about design brings you forgettable fonts, silly phones, easter eggs, Inktober, and an adieu to Carlos Esquerra.

  • Episode 84: I'm not a dunker

    Episode  |  September 28th, 2018  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 10 mins
    design, illustration, north-v-south

    Rob and Jon ask if design can save retail? Can design save anything at all? They do their best to obfuscate the entire debate.

    News includes Apple (briefly, you'll be relieved to hear), a new map of Antarctica, Fontsmith's new catalogue, kitbashed spaceships, octogenarian fashion models, Incompuito buildings and a new New Adventures Conference.

    Pies are consumed like the greedy capitalist pigs we are.

  • Episode 83: Read this panel next, dummy!

    Episode  |  August 30th, 2018  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 29 mins
    design, illustration, north-v-south, special-guest

    This week our very special guest is Dan Berry: host of the wonderful podcast Make It Then Tell Everybody. Dan is also a comic artist, teacher, pen whittler, desk collector, and log cabin dweller.