Ben West
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A selection of some of my printed design work from over the past few years. Clients include the National Trust, the Soil Association and UK Youth Climate Coalition

Jun, 27 · in Blog
The Democrats can't afford to underestimate Palin as they did Bush. Not because of the candidate herself is anything special, but because the RNC knows how to frame the debate, and they don't.

Stories, not Stats

The Democrats can’t afford to underestimate Palin as they did Bush. Not because of the candidate herself is anything special, but because the RNC knows how to frame the debate, and they don’t.

Oct, 03 · in Politics

In the shadow of a King

Something is afoot in America. I deliberately avoid the term ‘change’ because at the moment, it’s politically loaded, and what we’re seeing, I think, goes far beyond any individual politician. Today, I saw a guy ...

Sep, 19 · in Travel

Warsaw is Home

Anyone who doesn’t believe in a place called ‘Europe’ has never travelled from Kiev to Warsaw. Arriving at 7:05 in Warsaw, we decided we better buy our ticket for Cologne or, failing that, Berlin. This ...

Aug
07
2008

The Golan

200m away, I can just about make out a Blue Star and the words ‘WELCOME TO ISRAEL,’ painted in bold, capital letters across the roof of what appears to be a gas-station type construction, here ...

Jul
13
2008

Probably The Best Restaurant in The World

Ahhmaaayyzing”, Hussein exclaimed, with the unmistakably deep, throaty voice of a well-practised smoker. As he said it, the said smoke bellowing from his nostrils as if they were the windows of a house on fire. ...

Jul
12
2008

Syrian Hospitality

By the end of my first evening in Aleppo, I had already met a couple of people. The first, owned a jewelry shop in the souk, and, as it turned out, during term time was ...

Jul
11
2008

Shakespeare’s Aleppo

It’s been a little while since I posted anything, and you haven’t really heard much about Syria so far since I arrived just over a week ago. This is partly because there’s just so much ...

Jul
08
2008

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