O Fishing

We’ve gone away fishing again! I’ll admit, we’re a bit late in sharing our reportage of the trip this year, but there’s a reason for this, and thankfully it’s not because of a man overboard or raw-fish-related ailments.

As per tradition, we’ve made an arthouse-esque short film to document the trip, but on this occasion, we took the time to reflect on why we started O Street in the first place (15 years ago this month!), what makes us who we are and why we do what we do. Give it a watch!

The Computer Made Me Do It

At O Street play and experimentation are a key part of our creative process (read about our Last.fm slip-mat or our Roadliners project) As designers we’re instinctively taught to control outcomes. For me, experimentation is about breaking some of those...

Love is all O-round.

This month we had two very good reasons to clear the decks and order too much pizza. Neil O’s retirement and David’s 50th lap around the sun. Two milestones. Both worth marking properly. The date landed just after Valentine’s Day,...

Change Starts Small

Beth and the very lovely folk at INTL invited me to sit on a panel last night. The topic: “What the F**K is going on in the Scottish Design Industry?” A bit of a foreboding question, eh? And one which...

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