Im not saying I have ever escaped a Nazi prison of war camp during WW2 on a Motorbike, rescued people from a towering inferno, befriended Dustin Hoffman nor had the longest Car chase on record, but this is where the differences end…I do have the king of cool's jacket!

Steve McQueen in the famous Le Mans Jacket

Gracing the shelves of Selfridges this Spring are some pretty nice bags by Anya Hindmarch, who started her fashion career in Florence, Italy and is renowned for designing the eco-friendly "I'm not a plastic bag" tote which became a worldwide must-have.

In the collection we have the Fruit and Veg bag, the Homework tote, one inspired by the Beach and a couple of newspaper covers. I have bag envy! The original Anya Hindmarch store can be found on Walton Street, London. However the brand now has over fifty four stores in seven countries... Take a peek at http://www.anyahindmarch.com/.

Artist Guy Laramee creates amazing miniature book landscapes out of old books, dictionaries and encyclopedias. His series entitled The Great Wall and Biblios represent the degradation of human culture and show glacial landscapes, deep valleys and plateaus.

"So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes,"  says the artist on his website. "Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are."

And what do you do with your old books?









Released on this day in January 19, 1983, the Apple Lisa an acronym for Local Integrated Software Architecture or "LISA". Since Steve Jobs' first daughter was named Lisa.

Several years prior to this, research had been going on to create a new way to organize everything on the screen, today known as the desktop.

A great deal of work was put into making the graphical interface into a mainstream commercial product by the Lisa team.

It was the computer that had the power to put a dent in the universe, but was destined to live a life of failure.

Worst of all, a Lisa system cost $9995, way too much for anybody that would want to buy one. A famous quote really says it all, "It was a great machine, we just couldn't sell any".

In 1989, Apple disposed of approximately 2,700 unsold Lisas in a guarded landfill in Logan, Utah, in order to receive a tax write-off on the unsold inventory.

More accurate? you decide...

Marius Roosendaal from the Netherlands designs a typographic poster each day. A pretty lovely little collection that you can find here.

A look at some of the best and worst copycat own brands of butter spreads

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The Garbage Pail Kids were a staple part of mine and my brothers growing up years, eargerly swapping stealing and collecting each others in a feaved attempt to complete the current collection before the next series came out.

Well our competitive days seem to be over as for Christmas my brother bought me some unopened packs of each series on eBay, so i thought i would see what the cards say about us (in a non tarrot kind of way) here at MADISONSOHO...

AKA Steve Hipkiss - CREATIVE ARTWORKER

AKA Daniel VIgrass - EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR

AKA Neal Young - STUDIO MANAGER AND SENIOR DESIGNER

AKA Lucy Doolan - CREATIVE

AKA Richard Davies - CREATIVE

Did you know that the Chupa Chups logo was designed by the famous surrealist Salvador Dali in 1969?

This 42 year old logo looks modern, up to date and is one of the most iconic logos around.

Im sure Dali would be happy with the the ants in this not so recent Chupa Chup Advert for Sugar Free Lollys

Can you name these legendary album covers recreated in Lego by artist Aaron Savage.

No cheating now!

You can check out more of Aaron's Lego creations at

www.savagearrow.co.uk