Andrew joins the O Team!

We’re delighted to introduce the latest recruit to the O Street gang, Andrew Johnston!

An alumni of Glasgow School of Art, Andrew is an experienced designer with a tonne of industry experience from BBC Creative, Alphabetical and Studio Form.

What is my purpose? (WIMP) Andrew Johnstone

Outside the nine-to-five, Andrew explores What Is My Purpose (WIMP), a self-initiated project portraying a loss or lack of purpose through observational humour, altering everyday objects by removing their intended function. Exactly the different kind of thinking we love at O Street.

What is my purpose? (WIMP) Andrew Johnstone MugWhat is my purpose? (WIMP) - Watering Can Andrew Johnstone

Andrew spends his weekends heading to remote, hard-to-reach corners of Scotland for a spot of hillwalking, swimming and kayaking. A self-proclaimed hoarder collector of most things: stamps; bus timetables and maps to name a few, means he is usually on time and seldom gets lost!

As per tradition, Andrew was promptly sat on our yellow chair for the inaugural Pete Dibdin portrait!

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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