Since the introduction of the Penny Black in 1840, the postage stamp has been used as a prominent canvas for pushing political and cultural agendas. Stamps have frequently been adorned with the faces of monarchs and other political leaders. Other common subjects include cultural landmarks, key historic figures of the nation, and nationalistic imagery. In this essay, I will investigate the role of Russia’s stamps in the establishment of the Soviet Union and communist political and social ideals.

In 2012, I created a website for Godfreys, a London-based butcher, where I also worked as an assistant butcher for 4 years. Twelve years later, I still see the branding I created driving around London weekly.

There is an important co-dependency between design and business. In the words of Terence Conran, “A businessman with little knowledge of design is unlikely to be a very good businessman, and a designer with no knowledge of business is unlikely to remain a designer for very long”.

I recently found the first ever design document I created, from back in 2000.

The Heygate Estate was a massive housing complex in Elephant & Castle, South London, built in the 1970s as part of the post-war social housing boom. Originally home to over 3,000 people, it became a symbol of both the promise and failure of modernist urban planning.