This week North V South goes on a field trip to the Design Museum. Find out just what our roving reporters made of the museum’s new home in West London.

News sees us step closer to the world of Blade Runner with an image enhancer algorithm, and a step further away with an self driving bus crash. And as a general reminder that humans have been idiots since they left the trees, we look at Medieval Deathbot and Snapchat’s $30 million dollar silly glasses writedown.

Pies are stewed beef for Jon, and a bog standard pork pie for Rob.

North V South

Episode 66 – Computers are great, but humans are idiots

This week our podcasting curators visit the British Museum, taking in snarky mugs, cuneiform receipts, Roman curses, walrus chess pieces, Portuguese custard tarts, and a very noisy pub.

NB – This episode was recorded in an insanely busy British Museum by a decidedly amateur sound recordist. You have been warned!

Also, the podcast now has chapters so you can skip to the bits you want to hear, rather than listen to us waffle. Oh wait, we waffle all the way through every show. Scratch that.

Episode 74 – Noggin the Nog

We're back for series three! Like a run down syphilitic bus.

What's happened in our absence? Not a whole lot. Creative Review has gone to the paywall, Charlie Higson got stuck in a twisty maze of passageways, all alike, Fonts got all, like, look at us, we're fonts, we're so academic. And Hellboy is coming to a tabletop near you.

This week we talk digital tipping jars: Patreon, Kofi and the like. Rob's considering throwing his flat cap onto the cobbles and asking for donations. Jon works his monocle into his mean little eye and turns his snooty nose skywards.

Pies are tested as usual, but no LOTR this week. Old Man Willow stole our books.

Episode 76 – Biolegio

Daniel Benneworth-Gray — book designer, writer, Twitterer and all round nice chap — joins us on the podcast that is, and isn't, about design. We talk about his career in design, as well as gravy carbonisation, and telephone chairs.

News includes a new freelance rate calculator, Birmingham Design Festival, Record Store Day, and Rob updates us with Martin Sorrell’s latest movements.

This week’s pies are from Marks and Spencer, Pieminister and Yorkshire Baker. One of the pies is called Kevin.

Episode 77 – The one with Daniel

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A podcast from two English graphic designers.

One from up North. The other one from down South.

They talk about design, illustration, technology, books and pies. Most of the time. More often than not.

Sometimes they might have special guests. Sometimes, and more often than not, they won’t. But there will always be pies. Always pies.