The British design and advertising awards and education organisation, D&AD, publishes their annual of selected work next week. Someone different designs the annual each year – this year it’s being …

We’ve just run out of our stock of You are here posters. This project dates back to the mid-nineties, and was originally meant to be a tongue-in-cheek, semi autobiographical but …

Regular visitors to the johnson banks thought for the week will know that we passed through a ‘manhole’ stage recently. Luckily the good news is that we’ve found more. This …

We’ve been planning to do this for a while, and a brief summer lull meant we had the time. There’s a tendency sometimes for designers and clients to think that …

It’s become a familiar topic for ad agencies to grumble about brand consultancies. For decades it was clear – ad agencies were the ones that steered brands and made them …

Last year a friend contacted us with a book idea about ‘˜why designers draw’ and it was an interesting exercise in digging out sketchbooks and matching up incomprehensible scribbles with …

We followed a link recently to an article that interviewed the designer of the NYC Subway map, Michael Hertz. Now we’ll admit to being slightly behind this debate on this …

It’s that time of the year when summer reading lists cram the culture pages of the quality Sundays and in the Johnson house it was no different. The children clutched …

The weird and wonderful world of cyberspace never ceases to amaze. Having had our heads down preparing for the V&A fete and having posted our photos of the weekend, that, …

If you missed the V&A village fete or just fancy being nosy, Scarlet Projects have started a fete flickr here.