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Tagged with: Monthly Archives: October 2008
Democracy, designers and Obama
30.10.08

If the American election were held today and an east-coast cabal of American graphic designers had their way, Barack Obama would be in by a landslide. For months now, cyber-space …

Making art from barrels, part six
27.10.08

We’re getting to the point on our Glenfiddich project when we need to get some thoughts together to show the client. We’re flip-flopping at the moment between ideas that would …

Reprinted, quoted, pilloried?
24.10.08

A brief round-up of recent media: Creative Review has reprinted a recent post on Designer Monographs in its November issue, out this week. Johnson banks’ creative director is quoted in …

LoGoReDo: BT
23.10.08

Now this is a challenge. The second in our series of LoGoReDo’s is the BT logo. In case you missed the first, the idea is to take a current logo …

Remembering John Gorham
20.10.08

There have several instances recently where an almost forgotten name of British graphic design, John Gorham, has cropped up. Alan Parker highlighted his work in D&AD’s recent 45 years exhibition, …

Burn this?
16.10.08

We’re doing a project at the moment with a company based on Windmill Street in London. The first few times you walk down the street nothing seems strange (maybe the …

Making art from barrels, part five
13.10.08

At the end of last week some test barrels for our Glenfiddich project arrived. We’ve been making some small and slightly dodgy sculptures out of spare polyboard, but this was …

LoGoReDo: T-Mobile
09.10.08

In a taxi recently, driving into Philadelphia, we passed a T-Mobile shop that looked really awful. As in the picture below, because of the odd proportions of the logo, the …

Making art from barrels, number four
07.10.08

Continuing our series tracking our Glenfiddich project, we’re waiting for the delivery of some actual barrels from the distillery. While we wait, we’ve been doing some experiments with humble bits …

Ideas, infringement, inspiration
02.10.08

Designers, photographers and creatives often have a keen sense of right, wrong, ownership, theft and, increasingly, copyright. But there are two significant problems with protecting your copyright. Firstly, you can't …

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