It’s hard to appreciate how happy we were when we heard about the latest competition taking place over at the Association of Illustrators (AOI) website. AOI have teamed up with Transport for London (TfL) to select entries for a special exhibition at the London Transport Museum about cycling in London. For Airside, and in particular Jamie, this was a chance to enter one of our favorite pieces of unpublished work.

Joy of Cycling is a rejected idea from a job we did for TfL a number of years back. The campaign was to promote winter cycling by offering some useful tips on how to improve the experience. Unfortunately TfL didn’t go for our take on the classic 70’s illustrated sex manual, The Joy of Sex – possibly due to all that disturbing facial hair. So, we’re delighted to finally take this one down from our top shelf and expose it to the world.

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.

Just came across this rather frightening ad for a feminine wash, Lactacyd. It’s not even on YouTube anymore… Watch it here.

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