At Airside, we like to consider ourselves ahead of the game (and not on the game, that’s a crucial distinction). This feeling was confirmed when Wired – the tech-lovers magazine that is so future-focused it probably thinks hoverboards are passé – recently ran an article about the parlour game Werewolf becoming a growing phenomenon in the tech community. Like, hello, Airside have been playing Werewolf for years.

For those of you not in the know (tscch!), Werewolf is a fiendishly fun game – part-séance, part-RPG – that we like to play to the spooky sounds of Italian prog rockers, Goblin, and with Malika as a commanding, yet reassuringly French moderator. Continuing the Airside link, the Wired article features our own Fred Deakin talking about playing a version of the game in South-East Asia in the late 1980’s. Read the article here.

Airside features in a new book, Flashback: Retro Design in Contemporary Graphics. Published and edited by visual graphics collaboration group, Viction:ary, Flashback showcases recent design work that embraces nostalgia of the past.

From simple designs with bold colours, to strong geometric forms and streamlined graphics, the book is a trip down design’s memory lane. Airside’s contribution includes the 2009 Airside Calendar and our Birds wrapping paper.

This has been all over Twitter in the past few days, but if you haven’t seen it already, allow us to fill you in. The guys at Motionographer have posted a review of The Power Gap – our short film collaboration with left-wing think tank, Demos. And jolly nice they were about it as well.

Our favourite line is “Airside deftly used the jester’s tactic to reach its audience: humour mixed with equal parts profundity.” Ahh shucks, thanks you guys. Though we should point out the profundity was mostly Demos. Read the full review here.