London-based creative agency JKR, which for the second year round has been running the blog for branding & marketing industry people—Design Gazette—has recently published its second Anthology called “The Blue Lady’s New Look and Other Curiosities”. It rounds up all the core trends and observations previously appreared online on the blog and adds a lot more new thinking on top.

Last year’s (“Is Brad Pitt a Fishfinger?”) was described as “well informed and brilliantly observed—essential reading” that “might become a branding classic” by Grafik magazine.

Bloomberg Business Week called it “entertaining and thought provoking”.

Just for £7.99 you’ll get fifty two observations from the past year, all freshly hashed up. And a big essay which endeavours to discuss our postmodern design era without getting too intellectual. You will also get the answers to these questions: How come a brand of rotting fish entrails from the first century AD still has a promotion running? Can graphics make a car go faster? Has Mandeville wet himself? Why is Aristide Bruant the best client ever? Is gender bending ok for brands? Can bad taste make for a good design? And what’s a Trogon anyway?

The new book by Silas Amos — the editor of Design Gazette and Cretive Director at JKR,  can be pre-ordered on Amazon.co.uk.