I've been released from the Crown Court

Yes, my Jury Service is at an end. So please ring me up and offer me large, lucrative projects to make up for the two weeks' virtually unpaid leave I've just endured.

I have to say, though, it was an instructive experience. In the first week, I learnt that even the most ludicrous cases can be brought to the £10,000-a-day Crown Court. And in the second, when things got a good deal more serious, I was reminded how, when it's one story against another, everything can hang on the subtlest interpretation of words.

So while that lesson is fresh in my mind, it's probably a good time to phone up and offer me large, lucrative projects.

(Yes, I know I said that before. I thought it would bear repeating.)

My first job for Dew Gibbons

More good news on the client front: Dew Gibbons, one of the country's leading design consultancies, has asked me to work with them on a product naming brief for an international fashion brand. And what do you know: I had to sign another NDA. I mean, fair enough, but it makes this column a difficult one to write. So apologies for all the secrecy.

A new month, a new client

February has arrived with a very welcome guest: SAS Design joins my client list with an invitation to work with them on graduate recruitment materials for one of the UK's leading professional services firms. Which is nice.