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Designer. Co-founder multi award-winning creative agency @baxterandbailey.co.uk Writer. Speaker. Seasider. Dad. Here be drawings, pics & cetera.

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Brighton doing what it does best.

Including, but not limited to:

🌈 Pride
🍑 Paraders in Speedos
🤖 Pink Robots (vs Yoshimi)
🖤 Nick & Kylie
🪩 Miss Ross
🎙️ Yard Act & Georgie
😎 The Madness
🔥 Norman
🍸The big lad’s 20th taken in Brighton, England, UK by @mattbaxter

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2 months ago

Calling all BBC executives, top brass and decision-making fromages.

My Doctor Who pitch is as follows.

Space, time and its relative dimensions are endless and silent. A vast, chilly nothingness.

What this vast, chilly nothingness needs is sound. Big sound. Rumbunctious sound. Specifically; the bass-guitar-drums-and-some-shouting kind of sound. Space needs more punky pop.

And Who better to bring the ramalama pogo funtimes than not wun, not choo, not free, but fow actual Whos?

Meet The Relatives, a gig-hardened Gallifreyan gang of four, touring time and space… forever.

Hey Who, let’s go.

(I reckon this is surely the carrot to tempt @russelltdavies63 back into the folded space.)

@bbc @bbcdoctorwho

#DoctorWho #Relatives #HeyWhoLetsGo taken in Gallifrey by @mattbaxter

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3 months ago

Birmingham! We’re heading your way!

The 2026 edition of the mighty Birmingham Design Festival kicks off in grand style this week.

Stellar speakers include...
@ledbydonkeys
@coldwarsteve
@alliesstudio
@sean_rees
@shaqabovand
@f37foundry
@editbrandstudio
@reedwords
@samarmaakaroun...

and our very own founders @mattbaxter and @bom_dailey!

Matt and Dom will be taking to the BCU Parkside stage at 3pm THIS Friday 12th June to talk mistakes, mishaps and downright disasters. Come for the cringe, stay for the catharsis.

Schedule & Tickets 👉 BDF.EVENTS

@designfestbrum
#CreativeEvents #DesignEvents #BDF2026 taken in Birmingham, United Kingdom by @mattbaxter

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4 months ago

Tonight, Blast celebrates 30. Party time.

Which makes this Creative Orbit collaboration from Blast legend @mattbaxter feel particularly appropriate.

Matt was our first employee, one of the best designers we’ve worked with, and over the years became one of Giff’s closest friends.

For his collaboration, Matt created a playlist of tracks released in 1998 – the year he joined Blast – along with a lovingly recreated CD cover, just as we’d have made back then.
And he’s right. There probably isn’t a better time machine than music.

Tonight, many of these tracks will fill the dancefloor – selected and spun by our mutual friend, vinyl obsessive and occasional DJ, Nigel Davies.

Bring. It. On.

Explore 19 98 Tracks and the rest of the Creative Orbit collaborations on our new site.
See link in bio.

Now excuse us while we prepare ourselves for the return of Matt’s legendary rope-pull dance moves… by @mattbaxter

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4 months ago

Time for a musical interlude. 🏝️

A few weeks ago, my friend, fellow @northumbriauni alumnus, @uoc_graphics Programme Lead and all round good egg Billy Harkcom invited me to contribute to a project.

Billy had cooked up the idea of a Designer Desert Island Discs. It's a brilliant notion, I'm sure you'll agree. Most designers are music obsessives, after all. And many entered the creative industry having been inspired by music and the graphics, photography and filmmaking associated with it. I know I did.

Billy asked a range of open questions, all designed to elicit some personal musical choices. "What's the first album you purchased?", "Pick a song for your inevitable demise." and so on.

Essentially he's the @laurenlaverne / Kirsty Young of the enterprise.

Other contributors so far include brilliant creatives with impeccable choices @renrigby and Vicky Hutchinson of @thecreativehutch, with more to come.

My answers are live on Billy's DDID site. They're deeply uncool but honest. There's a link in the comments below. (And a playlist, should you wish to listen along.)

See you on the island.

NB: the portrait of my spud-like visage 🥔 is by @uoc_graphics lecturer and talented illustrator Vincent Walden @studio_walden by @mattbaxter

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4 months ago

A titan of tunes. A don of song. A wizard of words. Mick Head and his Red Elastic Band, last night at the @the_trades_club, Hebden Bridge. A magical fella in a magical room. ✊

@officialmichaelhead #shack #strands by @mattbaxter

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5 months ago

Well, that was a bit good.

The @phoenixcomicuk Phoenix Fest 2026 was two days of pure joy (and quite a lot of shouting).

Multiple venues, over 8000 comic-crazy kids and their adults, creator workshops, shows, sketches and signings, draw-alongs, and two giant donuts.

I spent two full days drawing. My rough calculation tells me that 14 hours of sketching at an approximate rate of one sketch request every three minutes equals... C0MPUT3R N01S3S... LOTS of drawings.

It was huge fun to spend time with the Phoenix crew, catch up with some good comics chums and make some new pals too. I feel very lucky to be involved in this mighty enterprise. The Phoenix Comic really is spearheading a revolution in comics for kids.

If you're interested to know more about this tremendous thing, listen to the latest episode of Sara Cox's Radio 2 Book Club via BBC Sounds, which was recorded at the Fest.

NB: all of the good images here come via the @phoenixcomicuk. The shonkier ones are by me and @marcmakescomics. The mid-sketch snap of yours truly is by David actual Fickling. 📷 by @mattbaxter

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5 months ago

A VERY happy birthday to @blast_design_london who turn a staggering 30 years old this month.

Giff and Martin 'poached' me from Trickett & Webb in 1998. Blast was my second ever job. I was their first ever employee.

When Giff asked me to choose a year for my contribution to their 30th anniversary gallery, naturally I chose 1998.

My artwork can be seen in images three and four. Here's what I wrote.

19 98 tracks
Is there a better time machine than music? I don’t think so. Certain bands, artists, songs or albums can transport you instantly to a specific moment in time like no other medium. You can keep your DeLorean. Tunes are my time machine of choice.

So, let me transport you to 1998, the year I started work as a junior designer for Giff and Martin at Blast in their lofty new studio, located at the very top of the five floors of 55 Farringdon Road EC1. It was my second job and I was their first employee. Naturally, I had a lot to explore and plenty to discover. New ways of working. New clients. New projects. New expectations. New priorities. A new corner of London. And new music. Lots of new music.

Like many design studios, we listened to music all day: from the moment we put the coffee on in the morning, to the minute we locked the heavy studio doors after a hard day of creative graft. Back in 1998, Spotify was ten years away. ITunes wasn’t born until 2001. Even cheeky, not-really-legal Napster was still a year away from launch. All of which meant that CDs – those much-reviled, unlovely silver discs – were the format of choice for our studio tunes. Bought CDs, borrowed CDs and burned CDs, we listened to them all.

This particular CD brings together 19 songs I discovered in ’98. Each one was released in that year. Some charted and were international hits. Others, not so much. But I love them all. And they all transport me instantly to good times in a good place.

Beyond 19 songs from 1998, I’ve added four bonus tracks too. You're welcome. The oldest of these is from 1966. Ancient history! Each of these extra songs could be heard reverberating off the walls of Blast 30 years ago and, I strongly suspect, can still occasionally be heard there today.
❤️ by @mattbaxter

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6 months ago

It's that time of year.
The briefs are live.
The juries are announced.
The pencils are waiting...
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We're very happy to share the news that BB founder @mattbaxter will be Jury President of the @carrefourfrance brief in this year's mighty @newblood_dandad Awards.
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Matt says:
"It's an absolute thrill and an honour to be a Jury President for D&AD New Blood. This award is part of my design DNA, ever since I was lucky enough to win a D&AD Student Award – as they were then known – way back in 1995. An event so seismic, my mum made a brilliant cake to mark the occasion."
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Creative students, head to the @d_and_ad website for all of the info you need.

#NewBlood26 #D&AD #DesignAwards #Cake Matt Baxter, D&AD New Blood Jury President 2026 taken in D&AD by @mattbaxter

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6 months ago

A rare non-worky, all-fun day in that London yesterday with big, special @g.30rg.3 (who won’t be happy about these pics, sorry pal).

A roam around. A visit with @mr_bingstagram. A trip to the building where @katy_hiles and I were wed. Some top scran. And big tunes by @bigspecial_, @gans.brum & @goodhealth.goodwealth who were all excellent, every one of ‘em.

#BigDayOut taken in Roundhouse by @mattbaxter

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7 months ago

"The journey is always more interesting than the destination." So says Ralph Waldo Emerson in Andy Bainbridge's beautiful map print.
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Huge thanks to @prestongraphics26 for inviting @baxterandbailey.co.uk founders @mattbaxter and @bom_dailey to make the journey to @unilancashire to speak as part of Preston's brilliant design industry week. A case of the destination being just as interesting as the journey.
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And what a line-up of stellar speakers. @jackrenwickstudio's @jackrenwick, @scriberian, @alexprints of @dutchscot, @supermundane, @kellyannalondon, @strawberriedonnelly, and many more.
💛
Dom and Matt loved the chance to hang out with old pals @jonathanharker68, Billy Harkcom of @uoc_graphics and lovely Steve Royle, ex of @thechasecreative and @true_north_manchester. A special thanks to Daisy and Matt of @movewithcraft for putting us up in your lovely Manchester office, too.
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And finally, if you're ever feeling in need of a creative boost, take yourself to @prestongraphics26's studios. As you'll see in these snaps, it's jam-packed with ephemera, packaging, prints and all kinds of visual goodness. Top marks for the long-standing @d_and_ad Newblood commitment too

#DesignTalks #CreativeTalks #DesignIndustry #PrestonGraphics taken in University of Lancashire by @mattbaxter

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7 months ago

Brighton pals! London pals! Pals! This is for you...
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Me, @bom_dailey, @clairelblyth and @alexpblyth are cooking up the next big Meeting Room Talk. And it's a corker. Full details below. Bag a ticket if you fancy it: this will sell out.

Tickets are now LIVE for the next Meeting Room Talks!

Speakers:
🎤 @jackrenwick – @jackrenwickstudio
🎤 DINES® – Studio Blup @_dines @studio_blup

When? ⏰
Thursday 19 March 2026
Doors 6.30pm / Talks 7pm
Talks end 9pm

Where?📍
The Old Courthouse
Brighton BN1 1UD

Join us for an evening of inspirational talks by two creative superstars. Jack and DINES® will share stories of their individual journeys into a creative career: expect twists, turns and totally awe-inspiring work. Book early - it’s going to be a great trip 🔥

To buy tickets, subscribe for future ticket announcements, and to find out more, head to...
meetingroom.events

#DesignEvents #Brighton #BrightonDesign #Design #Creativity

Meeting Room is brought to you by @baxterandbailey.co.uk and @redsetteragency by @mattbaxter

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