Almost half a century has passed since Watergate first entered public consciousness. The name quickly became synonymous with political scandal and has since spawned a spate of ‘-gate’ suffixes for anything from minor parish council peccadillos to serious breaches of […]
Month: June 2021
Typeface of the week – Comic Sans
Few typefaces are so well-known and instantly recognisable as Comic Sans. Even people with no interest at all in typography will pick it out from a random selection of typefaces, having no clue what the others might be called. And […]
Project documentation – The Project Definition Document (PDD)
Why do we need a Project Definition Document? Isn’t the project already defined by the Project Charter…? Well, yes and no. The Charter initiates the project and defines it at Executive Summary level, for its executive readership. The PDD is […]
Don’t judge a book by its cover – just take a close look at its face.
Hard to believe now, but there was a time when books were all written by hand, came in large and bulky volumes available only to the very few – and very rich. Imagine monks seated in their ‘scriptorium’, hunched over […]