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Woods is the blog of Jez Burrows, a designer and illustrator living in Edinburgh. A collection of work-related updates, small inspirations, and a healthy dose of miscellaneous nonsense.
Exciting news! If you pledge $75 to WNYC, you can opt to receive this handsome tote bag, featuring the logo I made for In Radiolab We Trust. Thanks so much to Executive Producer Ellen Horne for getting me involved. 

Also, t-shirts! Coming soon!

Exciting news! If you pledge $75 to WNYC, you can opt to receive this handsome tote bag, featuring the logo I made for In Radiolab We Trust. Thanks so much to Executive Producer Ellen Horne for getting me involved.

Also, t-shirts! Coming soon!

Posted 5 hours ago

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Dust bunnies (international variants)

I’ve just started subscribing to the beautiful Cabinet magazine on the advice of my pals from Arika. Issue 35 is titled Dust, and here’s a fine extract that proves my money has been well spent: Translated international variants of the term ‘dust bunnies’.

  • English: dust bunnies
  • Finnish: wool dog (villakoira)
  • French: sheep (mouton)
  • German: wool mouse (wollmaus)
  • Italian: dust cat (gatto di polvere)
  • Norweigan: student apartment bunny (hybelkanin)
  • Swedish: dust rat (dammråtta)
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The fedora (and it’s cousins the trilby, homburg, bowler &etc) is second only to the black duster in the heirarchy of Megadork Garments. Rare is the Dungeons & Dragons game without one player wearing a fedora he thinks makes him look like Indiana Jones. The sad fact is that these megadorks have tainted the hat for everyone else. If you want to wear a hat, you have to: A) have a great reason or B) look really awesome.

Sound advice from Put This On.

Posted 1 week ago

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RIP Nick Dewar, 1973-2010.

RIP Nick Dewar, 1973-2010.

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Glaciers
Meeting of Tides

Here Come The Glaciers!, forthcoming

Oh, hell. This is beautiful. Glaciers is Nicolas Burrows of Nous Vous. He played a small, perfectly formed set in the Bowery last year (with fellow NVer William Edmonds), and there is an album to come. For the time being there two other live tracks courtesy of The Golden Owl.

Posted 1 week ago

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Even if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat.

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I’m glad this clip of the most recent episode of Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe seems to be making the rounds. It’s a downright eerie watch, much like the rest of the show, which does a fine job of cataloguing genuinely shady/unnerving practices in television news.

Posted 1 week ago

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Radio silence

I’ve been a little quiet lately, and will continue to be for another week or so while I finish off work on another project with Arika, the promoters behind Instal: a festival I created the identity and materials for last year.

Kill Your Timid Notion is a week-long festival of experimental music and film that invites people to test and investigate the concepts that music and sound, film and moving image, are based upon. It is totally fascinating. It also helps me make good on the Tibor Kalman quote about working with people smarter than you.

Until then, you might also want to keep an eye out for me in the forthcoming issue of WIRED (US). More on that soon. Oh! There also might be a new Sing Statistics release in the next few months, though I’m determined not to talk about that too much until it’s out. We’ll see how long that lasts.

Posted 1 week ago

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Hey new followers!

Where’d you all come from at once?

Edit: Thanks all! It seems I’m listed in Tumblr’s directory. Thanks Tumblr! Welcome newcomers!

Posted 2 weeks ago

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