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Tagged with: Monthly Archives: November 2009
The perfect typeface for movies (or wars)
27.11.09

It’s long been noted that the typeface Trajan (based on the inscriptions on Trajan’s column) has become Hollywood and American TV’s favourite typeface. It’s solid. It has gravitas. It’s been …

Gloved handle bars
26.11.09

Also noticed last week in Beijing, this nifty customisation of your normal moped handlebars. The woolly gloves are attached to the bars – the owner just sticks his or hands …

Brand Mao
24.11.09

My brief trip to China last week was my first, ever. In the few hours off that I had, I frittered away a forgettable hour looking for Chinese guitars, but …

Guitars and Graphics, the two minute version
20.11.09

D&AD have kindly sent us a very nicely edited film of Michael Johnson’s Guitars and Graphics talk at this year’s Xchange conference. Here’s a brief excerpt. There’s talk of G&G …

Skate 2009
17.11.09

Last night saw the opening of London’s most glamorous outdoor skating rink, at Somerset House. We’ve been helping out with the branding of the event, which has a very prominent …

Dreamlab
16.11.09

I’ve just come back from Beijing where I’ve spent several days helping to judge a science, art and design competition called Dreamlab. A brief was set to Chinese Universities by …

My Hero (project)
13.11.09

Recently I was asked by a design journal to name ‘my design hero’. For decades, I hoovered up the design and writing of what would have been my nominations, whether …

So. London?
09.11.09

It’s the 9th of November, and those of you with longish memories will remember that 8 days ago we should have witnessed the grand unveiling of the new logo for …

From the archive: the ‘still a good idea’ sale
04.11.09

For some reason, in early 2004 we skipped the whole Christmas card thing and sent everyone a ‘still a good idea’ sale catalogue. A really weird idea, with re-photographed, unused …

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