Steve Poole

Steve Poole is the Creative Director and owner of Yellow Spade Design. 

A Chip Off the Creative Block

A Chip Off the Creative Block

As a child, printing fascinated me.  Whether primitively transferring poster paint via a roughly cut potato...using wax, tracing paper and the back of a spoon to lift copy and images from newspape...
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In The Shadow of Markham

In The Shadow of Markham

Born in 1962 I grew up in Duckmanton, and for many years the view from my bedroom window was completely dominated by Markham colliery, its huge brick built chimney, the headstocks, the winding hous...
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Well that didn’t go too badly!

In early 2007, I was offered the position of Group Chair at 1st Calow Scout Group, a year before the group was due to celebrate 75th Anniversary.  To mark this, my first objective was to devise a ...
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Well nobody saw that coming