As you might expect from someone who trained in graphic communication, lots of my old friends work in the creative communications industry. Some of them are doing some particularly great things. For a bit of creative inspiration to get your juices flowing, I highly recommend United Creatives, a diverse creative agency covering creative disciplines as vibrant and challenging as public art and something they describe rather deliciously as “graphitecture”.

Founder Chris Edmunds is a very old friend of mine (man and boy!) whom I also briefly worked with at what was then the largest design and architecture agency in the Netherlands, BRS Premsela Vonk.

Now based in Manchester, Chris’s team are engaged in some truly inspiring projects. I won’t say any more but here are a few images from the site to tempt you …