25 November 2014
Episode 163
52 minutes
We get our sketch books out as the Royal Drawing School celebrates its recent rebranding, head to Mexico City where American graphic-designer Lance Wyman is much revered, we also get the latest design news from Hong Kong and talk infographics at the VisualisediO conference in London.
25 November 2014
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