This fortnight, Matthew, I'm going to be davidthedesigner

Starting next Monday (the 8th), I've been given the considerable honour of acting as Editor of David Hyde's blog, davidthedesigner. It's one of the ones I always read, so I'm very chuffed to have been asked.


Not that you'll hear that much from me directly. David's asked me to be a sort of shadowy figure in the background - a writerly guide and resource for the three actual guest bloggers: Kevin McCauley (New York), William van Giessan (Arnhem), and Elle Adams (a graphic design student at Edinburgh College of Art). (I haven't forgotten Elle's link, she just doesn't have a site or a blog yet. Typical lazy student, you see.)

They all sound quite capable of being fascinating enough without any help from me, but I shall enjoy the reflected glory nonetheless. The good thing about being a Shadowy Figure is no-one really knows how much you had to do (or didn't) with the stuff on show.

Mind you, I may sneak the odd post in here or there. Watch out for it.

Noisy Decent Mike

The very nice news of today is that Ben Terrett of The Design Conspiracy has just invited me to be a guest writer on his popular design blog, Noisy Decent Graphics.

I'm very chuffed. NDG is a pretty well-known organ these days, always full of interesting news and opinions. The only thing that worries me is living up to its reputation.

(Especially as Ben recently recruited another guest writer, as you may know: Henrietta Thompson, writer for Blueprint, Dazed & Confused, the Guardian, etc, etc, etc. She blogged from Barcelona and all sorts. And she's better looking than me, damn her.)

Still, as someone once said, if you're asked if you can do a job, say yes - and then work out how to do it. (It was a US president, I'm sure. If anyone knows who, let me know.)

My noisy decent posts begin on December 3 - do come by and say hello.