Tom Harrad
Recent articles by Tom Harrad
The thin controller
Issue 92, Summer 2016
Progress bars have changed the way we engage with songs, films and stories
Anecdotage
Issue 90, Summer 2015
GraphicsRCA: Fifty Years and Beyond, which reminisces over the past…
Crowd-sourced wisdom?
Issue 89, Winter 2014
As Hershey and Airbnb have discovered, the internet has spawned a vast, powerful audience of…
Another frame for the news
Issue 88, Summer 2014
The redesign of RTL Nieuws makes a radical break with the conventions of television news graphics…
Sticky business
Issue 87, Spring 2014
The dead-wrapped Tunnock’s Tea Cake is both hipster treat and Scottish design classic
Glazed and confused
Issue 87, Spring 2014
From the synthesised splash of sugary fizz to 3D-printed hamburgers, the future of food goes way…
Picture: Killa
Issue 87, Spring 2014
Each of Graham MacIndoe’s drug ‘baggies’ brands a different high
Recent blog posts by Tom Harrad
Typographic freak-out
25 March 2014
Content Aware typography makes Adobe’s software ‘fail’ in the most interesting way
Content Aware Fill first appeared in Adobe Photoshop CS5, released in 2010, writes Tom Harrad.