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
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Episode 82: A slipper of a podcast
Episode | August 27th, 2018 | Season 3 | 52 mins 19 secs
design, illustration, north-v-south
We're back again,
with a hiatus haiku.
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Episode 81: The one with Mark
Episode | June 20th, 2018 | Season 3 | 1 hr 12 mins
design, illustration, north-v-south, special-guest
We're delighted to have another special guest on the show. This time it's Mark Phoenix, web developer and co-host of the excellent Relative Paths podcast. He talks to us from underneath his secret blanket den in Cheltenham about his career in code.
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Episode 80: The cross-section of a Damien Hirst
Episode | June 13th, 2018 | Season 3 | 54 mins 59 secs
design, illustration, north-v-south
In this episode Jon is at a crossroads and Rob is generally cross with anything to do with crossing London.
What time is love? No one knows, now we're all wearing Nuncs. Also with Roger Dean, Atari and Bill Gold, it's like the Seventies never went away.
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Episode 79: The one with Ben the Illustrator
Episode | May 21st, 2018 | Season 3 | 1 hr 7 mins
design, illustration, north-v-south, special-guest
This week we are joined by special guest and master of the Bézier curve, Ben the Illustrator. We talk to him about his career in illustration, his creative process, his plans for the future, and why social media should be a two-way conversation.
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Episode 78: Mountweazel
Episode | May 8th, 2018 | Season 3 | 1 hr 6 mins
design, illustration, north-v-south, podcasts, tools
Rob and Jon discuss tools they use everyday to help them do their work more efficiently. Find out who will survive when the grid shuts down.
News includes a look at new sound effect library from the BBC, Flickr's new owners and a look forward to Thought Bubble.
Jon's pie gets more points than Rob's. The world is in flux.
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Going pro
Article | April 23rd, 2018
Welcome to North V South’s new home as we continue our push to go pro. Admittedly, we’re not pushing very hard…
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Episode 77: The one with Daniel
Episode | April 20th, 2018 | Season 3 | 1 hr 8 mins
design, illustration, pies, special-guest
Daniel Benneworth-Gray — book designer, writer, Twitter noise, and all round nice chap — joins us on the podcast that is, and isn't, about design.
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Episode 76: Biolegio
Episode | April 19th, 2018 | Season 3 | 1 hr 5 mins
design, illustration, pies
We're back for series three! Like a run down syphilitic bus. This week we talk digital tipping jars.
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Episode 75: I love a bit of blank media
Episode | March 14th, 2018 | Season 2 | 1 hr 16 mins
design, illustration, pies
Our emissaries of ephemera discuss whether social media has levelled the playing field for both Davids and Goliaths.
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Episode 74: Noggin the Nog
Episode | February 23rd, 2018 | Season 2 | 38 mins 11 secs
fieldtrip
This week our podcasting curators visit the British Museum, taking in snarky mugs, cuneiform receipts, Roman curses, walrus chess pieces, Portuguese custard tarts, and a very noisy pub.
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Episode 73: It could parch an Elephant
Episode | February 12th, 2018 | Season 2 | 1 hr 17 mins
design
Our ministers of gloom discuss what makes bad design.
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Episode 72: Emotional Support Peacock
Episode | February 6th, 2018 | Season 2 | 57 mins 43 secs
the fall
We say goodbye to Mark E. Smith with a new jingle…