Journal

Bits and bobs of personal projects that have little or nothing to do with business and everything to do with the other – a home for thoughts, experiments and scribbles after I’ve left the meeting.

Colhoun is Not a Common Name

On 11 November 1918, the First World War ended. After four years of unprecedented violence and devastation, Armistice was declared. But the stories and memories need to be renewed, lest...

The Colour of Human Nature

As part of 26’s contribution to the Story Museum’s 26 Character Exhibition, I was asked to produce two pieces of writing for the website before and during the exhibition explaining how...

Dark Angels in Amsterdam

Gillian Colhoun and Stuart Delves ran a two-day, bespoke course for Irdeto’s marketing team in Amsterdam this January. Here they discuss some of its outcomes.

26 Twits

On 13th September 2016 the world celebrates the centenary of the birth of Roald Dahl. Writers' collective, 26, thought its members should be part of that celebration by signing up for a special...

Dark Angels Debuts in Ireland

Stories of Christmas

I was asked to team up with an illustrator called Benjamin Wright to write a children’s Christmas story based on this well known object. "Polystyrene red boot with a peeping...

Choose Wisely, Grasshopper

Deathbox

Established

Established: 1198, 1498, 1515, 1519, 1534, 1570, 1698, 1705, 1715, 1759, 1824, 1891. An inn, a removals company, a butchers, a ferry, a printing press, a bell foundry, a wine...

26 Postcodes

Pack your notebook and your writing pen, and come with 26 on a journey into the imagination this summer. We’re recruiting for our next project, 26 Postcodes. That was the...

Engineering Innovative Products

26:50

In early 2010, 26 teamed up with International PEN to mark 50 years of the PEN Writers in Prison committee. 50 writers from 26 were paired with a writer whose...

26 Lies

Keeping Clients (and you) Happy

In theory making your clients happy and keeping them that way shouldn’t be all that difficult. After all, the whole point of being a designer is having an innate ability...

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