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Tagged with: Monthly Archives: August 2007
Soft, yellow and very very long
30.08.07

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 …

You are here, 2007
28.08.07

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 …

Just when you thought it was over…
23.08.07

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 …

17 steps to heaven
20.08.07

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 …

Not as easy as it looks
16.08.07

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 …

Think, draw, do
14.08.07

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 …

Kick it into touch
09.08.07

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 …

Books, beaches and Bierut
06.08.07

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 …

Pigs really can fly
03.08.07

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, …

Fete Flickr
01.08.07

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

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