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Episode 7:

You can get a pretty good idea of the content of the podcast by looking at the iTunes listing.

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“Like a withering bonsai…” - Jon Elliman.

Things we chatted about (in a roughly chronological order):

Jon's screen protector Ways to deal with procrastination Theresa Roviras -http://www.teresaroviras.co.uk Noiz.io ambient noise app. Dropbox Creative Cloud 2001 Screensaver - The HAL Project sadly seems to have come to an end. Pomodoro Technique Freeagent Slips app Idea Paint Microsoft Outlook for iPad and iPhone Post-it notes Make it then tell everybody Kim Jung Gi on YouTube Swann Morton Scalpels Pantone Books GF Smith paper

Hard Sci Fi

What is hard Sci Fi? Alistair Reynolds Paul McAuley The Quiet War Iain M Banks, Excession Dan Simmons Hyperion

Gravitational Waves

LIGO Caltech (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory What is a singularity? Gravitational Waves explained in a comic strip. Gravitational Lensing

Rob's Website of the Week

Glittering Blue The Himawari-8 satellite The Panic Sign Raspberry Pi not Raspberry Pie

Book of the Month

China Mieville - The City and the City

Pie Review

Rob’s pie: The Squealer 7/10 - from Robson’s Butcher’s Apple Chutney Black Sheep Ale

Jon’s pie: Melton Mowbray Pork Pie 5/10 Forty Niner

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Jon on Twitter - ellimondo Rob on Twitter - thisnorthernboy

Out and about

We’ll be recording Episode 3 of the North v South podcast this evening, and it should be available later tonight, or early tomorrow.

Topics currently pencilled in for discussion:

Tools of the (designers) trade

Gravitational Waves

Procrastination (although we may do that next week)

Website of the week

What makes a pie a pie.

North v South, a podcast about - but not about - design.

My friend Jon Elliman and I have recently started a podcast – North v South. Episode 2 was recorded and released last night (thank’s to Jon’s amazingly quick edit), and it’ll be a weekly schedule from now on.

Jon and I met while working at the same design agency in St Margarets and got on very well right from the start, particularly the chat that designers enjoy (sometimes endure) across the top of an iMac. As Jon and I both freelance from home now, we realised how much we missed that aspect of working in a studio, so the podcast is an attempt to replicate that feeling. The title of the podcast, North v South is an allusion to the fact that Jon comes from the southern shires of England, and I hail from the north.

The first episode finds me chatting to Jon about how I got my start in design, after a couple of false starts, and about my move in to illustration. We discuss the merits of the iPad Pro and Pencil for drawing, which sketchbooks I use for what purposes. We also talk about pies.

In episode two I turn the tables and quiz Jon about how he went from being a scholar of medieval literature, to running his own design studio. We touch upon Russian prison tattoos, office pets, and we, once again, talk about pies.

Future topics of conversation in the podcast are:

Fighting Fantasy Books

Tools of the designer’s trade

Einstein’s Cross

A history of pies

Pen Talk

The U.S. Ghost Army

Blitz-stricken, London-dockland, epileptic, bipolar depressive

and…

Procrastination.

Trio of salmon

Scottish salmon

Smoked salmon