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Tagged with: Monthly Archives: September 2007
More things to make you go ‘mmmm…’
28.09.07

As ardent Guardian readers we were disturbed by a slightly fawning piece this week about the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘new’ map where ‘warriors, villains, fools and heroes get their own …

The hidden, the obscure and the unexplained
26.09.07

I was reading recently that Jack White trained as an upholsterer prior to worldwide fame as one half of the White Stripes. Much of the interview contained the obligatory rock …

45 years of annual covers
19.09.07

If D&AD had the chance to rewind back through its history it might have approached things differently. The Gold Award, for example, might have been gold. The Silver Award, silver, …

India week, continued
13.09.07

Rounding off what’s become India week, there’s an interesting write-up of the Kyoorius Designyatra conference on the Creative Review blog. We really hope they didn’t mean us when they accuse …

It’s a quarter to Taj Mahal
12.09.07

We’ve always been of the view that listening to designers banging on about how they great they are on stage is an inherently dull experience. So we’ll often include examples …

Billboards like you’ve never seen before
10.09.07

So you’re thundering down some leafy Indian highway with a cab driver seemingly intent on a) beeping furiously at everyone and everything b) nearly running over all the people, dogs …

Designers, printing, money
09.09.07

Johnson banks’ creative director Michael Johnson has been in India this weekend at the Kyoorius Design Yatra conference, where 1600 of India’s designers and students attended a 3 day festival …

Spot the logo
05.09.07

It doesn’t seem to be cool to design logos. Spend any time at any student show and you’ll see viral ads, YouTube stings, type animations, blind-embossed handmade books, animated hand …

No useful reason at all?
03.09.07

It seems we’re not the only ones querying D&AD’s flag project, which we discussed last week. Ex-president Mike Dempsey filed this as his submission. Ouch. There are more pictures on …

The Guardian’s top 50 designers
02.09.07

Johnson banks’ creative director, Michael Johnson, was featured in yesterday’s Guardian Weekend magazine amongst their selection of the UK’s top 50 designers. The list, compiled by a panel including Emily …

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