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Daiwa Scholars book
30.05.07

We’ve just finished this commemorative catalogue for the Daiwa foundation, celebrating their 100th Anglo-Japanese scholar, for an event in Tokyo. The relatively normal looking book takes a surreal turn when …

Children helping Save the Children
27.05.07

Johnson banks were appointed in the middle of 2006 to help Save the Children in the UK raise their profile. Save the Children has become slightly forgotten in UK charity …

Don’t blame me
26.05.07

There’s a bit of (probably justified) chatter in cyberspace about one of this year’s D&AD Gold awards, the project for the Misereor War Orphans charity. Creative Review has already despaired …

150 Grafiks
25.05.07

Last night saw the launch of a little book to celebrate the 150th issue of UK design journal, Grafik. 150 designers were asked to write a short piece and provide …

Portfolio questions, answered
22.05.07

This recent degree show mailer from a college featured a misspelt name badge for the johnson banks creative director and an inch mark in the headline. Double-bad, you might say. …

Bizarre

We’ve been involved in the D&AD Congress this week, running a session yesterday at the award nominations exhibition on ‘why these things were nominated’. Unbeknownst to us D&AD’s resident illustrator …

That’s quite a thank you
18.05.07

Thank you’s from clients can take all forms. Sometimes no news is a kind of thank you (it means nothing’s gone wrong). More conventionally we’ve had flowers, chocolates, film tickets, …

A quick project for the Science Museum
17.05.07

We got a call a few weeks ago from the Science Museum to help them with ‘some graphics’ for a little exhibition. As is often the way, one panel led …

More envelopes
16.05.07

What’s encouraging about this year’s Christian Aid week is that the other agencies involved are starting to bring the envelope idea to life in ads, and on the web. We’ve …

The envelope comes to life
14.05.07

This week in the UK it’s Christian Aid Week. When we started work on their identity nearly two years ago we were almost painfully aware of how important the week …

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