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Tagged with: Monthly Archives: November 2008
The last word on barrels
27.11.08

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 …

Making art from barrels, part nine
25.11.08

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 …

More from Kuala Lumpur
22.11.08

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 …

Campur Campur
20.11.08

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 …

Follow that sheep (part one)
17.11.08

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 …

What-o-Mundus?
13.11.08

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 …

Making art from barrels, part eight
10.11.08

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 …

Making art from barrels, part seven
05.11.08

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 …

Good luck, world
04.11.08

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 drawing day at the museum
02.11.08

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 …

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