Episode thirteen, the unluckiest podcast yet from North V South, explores good fortune in careers.
This week we look at a sinister machine that turns itself off, Jon goes a bit cuckoo and tries to explain post digital, while Rob coos at mating pigeons and miniature houses.
We discuss whether you make your own luck by just working hard or if the hands of the gods are upon us like that film with the mechanical owl in it.
We then present a synchronised pie review for the first time.
An episode in which we talk about design quite a lot for a podcast that is and isn’t about design. We chat about Dyson going viral, revisit Japan’s Olympics logo and we look at some pictures that could be straight off the set of Blade Runner 2. But they’re not.
Jon gets all hot under the collar about fake marketing campaigns and flimsy pseudo lifestyle businesses. Perhaps he picked up a virus from the hand dryer? Our tenacious duo then tackle and try to solve the free pitch dilemma. Did they do it? Did they heck.
Pies are then partaken of and farewells made.
This week’s episode contains reviews of two mediocre pies and a startling revelation about Michael Bentine.
Our rambling discourse takes a stroll through Victorian space exploration, vastly overpaid executives and the origins of the word Bovril.
We talk about music in office culture and the various stereotypes one might meet when working in a studio. Then Jon drops the Potty bomb. Listen on, reader-listeners. With your eye-ears.
This week our intrepid heroes talk about getting paid.
The chaps talk about The Guardian’s experimental design layouts, Erik Spiekermann’s print shop, British Steel logo redux, a grundie exhibition at the V&A and the new, very silly, Kindle.
This week in the podcast that might or might not be very good, we don't sound like we're having a chat in a dustbin. Which might or might not be a good thing.
We talk about the ephemeral nature of the internet of things, one pound coins, HP's new old logo, personal projects and, of course, pies.
Today's episode is a week late due to eggs and weddings. We talk about the ageing Intercity 125 and its role in the British sandwich revolution(role, roll, geddit? Aah never mind).
We then ruminate over cheap design services and why designers get their knickers in such a twist over them. That discussion leads us neatly on to the book of the month, Design is a Job by Mike Monteiro, which basically tell us to be professional, pull our trousers up and stop blaming the client.
We then review one authentic pie and a quiche that is masquerading as a pie. The hunt for a vegetable-based pie continues…
Today's episode is brought to you by pickle-powered pies.
We talk about news that revolves around artificial intelligence, 360° videos and Bagpuss. But possibly not all at the same time.
Our intrepid duo then talk about design convergence, and whether that's a good thing. Answer: It probably isn't.
Both Rob(democratically)and Jon(autocratically) ended up with pickle-infused pies. And we can honestly say that this is not a good thing either.
In this episode we discuss design awards from the unique perspective of never having won any design awards. Although Jon once got a certificate from a Lego building competition in 1978.
The chaps discuss the pros and cons of design awards. Listen to find out whether con is the pejorative.
Rob's pie this week has its own helipad. Jon has two pies. They fail to mention the fact that it's National Pie Week, mainly because there's no such thing as National Pie Week.
In this episode of everyone’s favourite podcast with pies and regional accents, we are furkling around in binary middens.
Rob talks about a daily newspaper launch in the UK. Jon reveals his ignorance of world news.
Jon wonders about what will happen to our digital stuff. He discusses whether anything we create online has any value and whether archaeologists in the future will think people from our time are vacuous consumers of emptiness. Rob eats a pie.
A new episode of the only podcast guaranteed free of electrical interference thanks to factory-grade unicorn dust.
We talk about the brouhaha around a couple of recent rebrands. We sad face Facebook's new response icons.
We chat about our book of the month, The City and the City by China Mieville. Rob navigates the conversation around why he didn't do a drawing for the show, while Jon says the words "erm" and "brouhaha" an alarming number of times. Pies are then eaten and judged as they should be.
We delve into the important things in life: Pies, as ever, gravitational waves (whatever they are) and post-it notes.
In this episode Rob tries to teach Jon about new scientific discoveries and almost succeeds. Jon blethers on about how he deals with procrastination. The chaps then masticate as quietly as they can and compare pies.
We've improved the sound quality and added a jingle. What larks. Next time we might add a website.
In this episode Rob questions Jon about his dubious qualifications as a designer and how he got to what he does today. Jon then drivels on inexorably until Rob breaks off the interview to eat a ham hock and pea pie, while Jon continues his trawl through the lower echelons of pies.
The inaugural episode of our new podcast about but not about design. We have no idea how or what we are doing. There's no jingle yet. Join the confusion!
In this episode Rob tells Jon how he got into design and how he kicked off his illustration career. Jon then makes Rob jealous by talking about his new iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. Then he eats a pork pie and drinks some beer just to rub it in.
