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 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…
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Episode 71: Plasticine eagle
Episode | January 24th, 2018 | Season 2 | 1 hr 4 mins
newspaper design
The Guardian has had a redesign. North V South takes a look at what’s changed.
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Episode 70: Concerning Hobbits
Episode | January 15th, 2018 | Season 2 | 1 hr 1 min
lord of the rings
A podcast about, but not about, The Lord of the Rings.
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Episode 69: Episode 69 - Dudes!
Episode | January 11th, 2018 | 49 mins 35 secs
Happy New Year podcast fans. Here's a new episode…
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Episode 68: Episode 68 – I like the old one better
Episode | December 21st, 2017 | 57 mins 32 secs
And so it's Christmas. In this episode Jon contin…
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Episode 67: Episode 67 – Graphic design for squirrels
Episode | December 21st, 2017 | 1 hr 31 secs
Recorded over a month ago, here's an episode of t…
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Episode 66: Episode 66 – Computers are great, but humans are idiots
Episode | November 12th, 2017 | 45 mins 30 secs
This week North V South goes on a field trip to t…