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HOT TICKET MASTER CLASS - A UNIQUE BUSINESS-BOOSTING EVENT!

This really is something you don't want to miss - a whole evening of really useful stuff - being held each month in Sheffield, Doncaster and Chesterfield.  Places are strictly limited, so if you want to be one of the lucky ones, get your Hot Ticket now!

Click on the ticket to find out more and to book your place!

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Calling all fellow fontmonsters...!

Book Recommendation!

You may have noticed by now that I'm a bit of a font freak, so if, like me, you love all things typographical and you collect fonts like they were going out of fashion (hence my daughter calling me a fontmonster!), you might like this fantastic book by Simon Garfield called 'Just My Type - a book about fonts'.

It gives some funny and fascinating background not only to the typefaces themselves and their design features, but also includes great human interest stories about the font designers, clients who've used them, how they've gone in and out of fashion - it's just brilliant stuff.

It was recently featured on the BBC Radio 2 Simon Mayo Book Club - you can click here to go to the BBC website to read their reviews, and if, like me, you just had to have a copy, you can click on the image of the book (left) to be taken to the Amazon website where you can buy it.  You can also watch a short (2 minute) but fascinating video of Simon looking at fonts 'on the street' in New York - click here to view.  Great stuff!

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Sheffield's new brand

Global Entrepreneurship Week at Sheffield Enterprise Agency - 15-19 November 2010

Phew - what an experience!  Senta had asked me to be one of the 'inspirational speakers' at their showcase event - what a privilege, but very nerve-wracking!  A great turn-out with well over 100 guests there (including several of my current clients), and a fantastic business opportunity.  I met some really lovely people - two of whom have become new clients already!

delivering my speech at the Senta evening

 Photograph courtesy of Jeanette Teare, Abbeydale Photography

 

And here's an interesting thing!  The same night as this, Sheffield City Council and CreativeSheffield were unveiling their new Sheffield brand and font at The Crucible, to be used to promote the city and its businesses - an excellent idea, which cost £15,000 - do you think this is value for money?  One of the Yorkshire Post's reporters, Peter McNerney, produced a video report with some mixed reviews and I was interviewed - click here to watch the short video clip, and please let me know if you agree or disagree with my comments - I'd love to hear from you!

 

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