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The running man
26.10.07

If you have an idle moment it’s worth looking at ‘Gert R’s’ photo blog. It’s a simple idea – balance a camera on a stable surface, set the timer for …

Bad memory lane
25.10.07

Rummaging about on my home bookshelves recently I came across this 20 year old tome, The Best of British Corporate Design. I was really searching to find this logo that …

Fast, good or cheap?
23.10.07

I first came across this phrase about 15 years ago as I struggled to explain to a roomful of serious looking ad-men that whilst I was young, relatively inexperienced, had …

Greener listening
19.10.07

The design company Thoughtful have (thoughtfully) posted audio and visual versions of five of the talks given by speakers at the recent Applied Green conference. You can watch David Hieatt’s …

The eyes and ears of the world
16.10.07

A British design magazine recently asked me to suggest one of my favourite logos. The Time Warner symbol from the early nineties by Chermayeff & Geismar is my nomination. It …

Unbound
12.10.07

Johnson banks has just finished the initial stages of an identity for the US-based philanthropic trust Unbound. We wanted to find a way to express who they supported – they …

Copyright, bunnies and the public domain
08.10.07

Last week saw the launch of the latest Sony Bravia ad, further exploring the idea of ‘˜colour like no other’. After balls bouncing through San Francisco and paint-filled pyrotechnics on …

Leaching it of any meaning
04.10.07

The following is an adaptation of a speech given yesterday at The Applied Green conference by Michael Johnson. On paper at least, I seem pretty green. I get the Guardian …

Applied green
02.10.07

Johnson banks’ creative director, Michael Johnson, will be speaking tomorrow at Applied Green, a Haymarket conference at The British Library. This is being billed as ‘a festival of minds where …

Using up the address labels
01.10.07

One of the issues of re-branding large charities (as we’ve been doing the last few years) is the amount of ‘old stationery’ left in the cupboard as a result. Judging …

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