Our favourite songs of 2020
It feels like a good time for reflection, we’ve put together our favourite songs that have helped us through 2020. This year’s selection is dancey and upbeat but still nicely showcases a wide range of…
Glug Birmingham – Collectors Edition
Luke Tonge and Daniel Alcorn took Glug Birmingham online this year. They organised two talks from design collectors and asked me to speak in the first session. I created a pre-prepared video and joined them…
S’Express Mix – The Samples
I love ‘Theme from S’Express’, it’s magical and makes me happy every time I hear it. I started to get obsessed about how Mark Moore had created it and found a list of all the…
Maraid Portrait by Michael Driver
We first became aware of Michael Driver‘s work for Culture Trip, beautiful illustration for travel – what’s not to love? When Michael became a stallholder at the 2019 Glasgow Print Fair it was great to…
Glasgow Print Fair from home
Glasgow Print Fair from home is open! We asked a selection of artists across Europe to create new prints based on the theme of nature for this year’s event. We were overwhelmed by its success…
Books about collections
Happy World Book Day! Since publishing Matchbloc I’ve noticed how much I enjoy a book about collections. Specifically, similar items repeated with slight differences. I’ve posted a view of my favourites below, each book features…
Postage stamps from the Netherlands
I promised myself not to fall too far down the rabbit hole of stamp collecting as I really have enough small pieces of lovely illustrated paper in my life with matchbox labels – but I…
Maraid Christmas portrait by Ben Javens
For our brief to Ben Javens Richard asked to be climbing a tree. He seemed surprised but happy when the finished version was a Christmas tree. We love our 2019 Christmas illustration – Thanks Ben!…
Our favourite songs of 2019
At Maraid Design we pretend to like contemporary music because it makes us appear cool. To continue the illusion we have chosen some random tracks and are claiming they are our favourite songs of the…
Matchbloc in the media
One year on from publishing Matchbloc the first edition of 1000 has sold out. I thought it might be nice to collate some of the coverage of the book for which we were very grateful….