John Spencer
@o_t_t_o_m_h
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Graphic designer. Founder of design agency Offthetopofmyhead. Author of Risk-Taking Trailblazers. Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Sunbury-on-Thames
Joined January 2012
LET'S GET OVER OUR OBSESSION WITH BRANDING. My 2019 article for @Design_Week. 'Much of what the design industry says about brand and branding is incomprehensible, pretentious or just plain daft.'
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I see what you did there.
BREAKING: Reform UK.
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LATEST WORK. Logo and graphic identity for Barbara McLaughlan Consulting, a new advisory business that works in government affairs with third sector organisations, patient groups, the pharmaceutical industry and public affairs agencies.
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From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "Look at that, you son of a bitch". Apollo 11 astronaut Edgar D Mitchell.
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Alan Fletcher, the Father of British Graphic Design, said: "A person without imagination is like a teabag without hot water".
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LATEST WORK. Logo and graphic identity for Blue & Brew, the newly renamed and refurbished café at the University of Cambridge Sports Centre.
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THERE'S NO BULLSHIT LIKE DESIGN BULLSHIT. My 2018 article for @Design_Week. 'Bullshit gives people reason to think we’ve got something to hide. We risk creating the impression that what we do has little substance and not even we believe in it.'
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American comedian George Carlin said: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that”. #MAGA2024.
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BLURRED LINES. I’ve always worked in that creative borderland where design meets art. My new book celebrates the blurred lines that exist between those worlds. Blurred Lines will be published in early 2025.
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Ghosh.
The ‘h’ in ‘ghost‘ is a historical hiccup. William Caxton, having first practised his trade in Flanders, brought Flemish typesetters back to England to help set up his printing press - they lobbed an ‘h’ into English ‘gost’ because their own native word was ‘gheest’.
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Boom.
I’m a Dr because I have a PhD in law from the University of Cambridge, where I completed a thesis on Equality Before the Law, the Rule of Law and unlawful discrimination. It won the Yorke prize. I probably know more about discrimination law than a D list news presenter.
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This isn’t journalism, @nicholaswatt, it’s tittle-tattle. Have a word with yourself.
Taylor Swift tickets and Keir Starmer - what’s going on?. @nicholaswatt runs through the story. #Newsnight
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RT @StuartHumphryes: Originally photographed in 1912 (but not published until 1916) I have cleaned-up & enhanced this glorious autochrome p….
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LATEST WORK. Branding for Denison Nunn, a new specialist executive recruitment consultancy.
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RT @Humanists_UK: This reform is centuries overdue. The Lords Spiritual in Parliament are not just a relic of a religious age, but a last….
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MPs in the House of Commons yesterday called for a government Bill to remove the historic anomaly of 26 bishops voting in the House of Lords. The calls came in a debate on the House of Lords (Hered...
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RT @JamesFl: I truly, deeply, to the depths of my soul do not believe anybody gives a fuck about this Taylor Swift tickets saga.
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Bloody love it.
My daughter's friend started a woman-only plumbers called StopCock.
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RT @Parody_PM: After interviewing five Prime Ministers without properly challenging them, Laura Kuenssberg finally discovers how to do it t….
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Thank you so much @RelphKnight.
Lovely, sensitive work! I never met her, but John Spencer captured the essence of our perceptions of her as a kind and caring person.
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