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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …