We’ve had some very positive feedback on the barrel art project, so as a kind of coda here are some of the production shots we held back from the main …

We’re just back from Glasgow where our Barrel Art project has finally launched. In case you’re a new visitor to this site, the brief, in a nutshell, was to take …

Here are some pictures from the recent Kyoorius Designyatra in Kuala Lumpur. Here’s Wally Olins in full flow. Kenya Hara. Neville Brody relaxing on the front row. Vince Frost (or …

One of the senior members of the johnson banks design team, Kath Tudball, was speaking at last week’s Kyoorius Designyatra conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her topic was the Malaysian …

Recently we tried to persuade the marketing director of a ‘luxury’ brand that, despite our lack of significant experience in their sector, we’d enter it with our eyes open, with …

Most designers will name a particular book that they keep boomeranging back to, a groundhog day tome that helps them through difficult times or 11th hour deadlines. Only a few …

We’re straight into production on the barrel project. First thing to do is work out some of the technicalities. We want to embed words into the barrel pieces, so we’re …

After months of research, distillery trips, making test sculptures in polyboard, deconstructing real barrels and pursuing a few blind alleys, we’ve finally got an idea that works for our Glenfiddich …

One of the johnson banks team hails from Michigan, originally, and arrived with election cookies this morning. It’s true that Obama-fever has filtered into the studio. We're sporting Obama screen-savers… …

A few years ago I remember Dick Powell (he of Seymour Powell fame) telling me that one of the greatest memories he had of being a parent was going to …