We’ve just been informed that today, April 27th, is World Graphic Design Day. Not just National Graphic Design Day. WORLD. Expect bankers, builders, waitresses, chauffeurs and dog-walkers all over the planet to get out of bed this morning, pull on a pair of skinny jeans and a check shirt, and start talking about kerning or typefaces or something.

Please feel free to add your own cliches, stereotypes or suggestions for what you think would make World Graphic Design Day a happy occasion for all involved. It also gives us the chance to reshow this, which is a few years old, but still funny.

Here’s a nice little lesson in how important it is to choose the right music.

I don’t think I’ve seen anything so disturbing in a long time. Thanks to Tim Sinclair for sharing that with us.

Multi-touch Barcelona are, in their own words, “a recently born interaction design group that explores natural communication between people and technology. We design experiences that merge real and digital into a creative environment where people are invited to touch, play, move, feel as they do in the real world.”

Multi-touch Barcelona are, in our own words, “doing some very interesting work with giant iphones”.

We’ve had an email from 7 year-old James King from Teignmouth in Devon. James writes:

Well thanks for writing in James. Firstly we should stress that when it comes to crisps, our loyalty lies firmly with Nando’s new excellent range of Peri-Peri potato chips, available in supermarkets nationwide. But taking them out of the equation, a quick poll around the agency revealed:

26%: Cheese & Onion (James’ choice – what are the chances of that?!)

26%: Salt & Vinegar

10%: Prawn Cocktail

10%: Beef.

The rest of the votes were split equally between Chilli, Salt & Pepper, Bacon, Caramelised Onion and Balsamic Vinegar (that’s like normal vinegar, James but for posh people) Chicken, Ready Salted and Worcestershire Sauce.

I hope that’s cleared things up for you, James. With regards to work experience, please send a pdf of your six best bits of work to the usual email address.

What do you think about James’ choice of crisps? Does your choice of crisp effect your choice of career? Is seven too early  to be starting out in the design industry? Have you ever done a blog post about your favourite crisps? What sort of response did it get?

Philip says: “If you only listen to three records this year, make it these three – all from San Francisco, the place to be in 2009. Enjoy.”

Wooden Shjips: Dos

Sleepy Sun: Embrace

Crystal Antlers: Tentacles

Statement ends.

Thank you Philip.