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Tagged with: Monthly Archives: April 2009
Time Flies
29.04.09

We’ve just finished our submission for Blank Canvas. This is a nice variant on the ‘student auction’ theme, where Ravensbourne students have asked various designers to take an everyday, supplied …

It’s great. But did it work?
28.04.09

One of the problems of ‘˜branding’ as a day job it that it’s an imprecise science. However many processes, diagrams and formulas we hide behind, even the projects that we …

From the archive: Paper Advisory Service Posters
24.04.09

As a general rule, we’re not too concerned with looking backwards. Any design company that spends any time resting on their laurels (especially at the moment) is asking for trouble, …

Let them eat Teacake
21.04.09

A few weeks ago at The Design Auction one of the oddest lots of the evening was that offered up by young design company Teacake, who as well as a …

OAB’s at St Brides
20.04.09

This week it’s the Friends of St Bride Library Conference, themed around ‘Revival’. There are talks from all manner of people over the two days (23rd and 24th), including Henrik …

‘Slapped together without much care or thought’
16.04.09

BBH’s crowspring experiment, as discussed this week, seems to perplexing them as well. Quoted here from their BBH Labs blog: First, many of the designs being presented seem to be …

When the world zigs, zig
14.04.09

We’re getting some mixed messages from the world-renowned ad agency, BBH (Bartle Bogle Hegarty). Only last week many were applauding their decision to offer a 3.5 percent pay cut to …

Dead Trees
09.04.09

Illustration magazine Varoom recently asked johnson banks’ creative director Michael Johnson to nominate a compelling image as part of a series chosen by designers and art directors. His choice is …

Me and my iPhone speak a different language
07.04.09

I have very few quibbles with the iPhone as a piece of communications kit. Its arrival into my life has ironed out many wrinkles, and life generally works a little …

So Very Fooled?
02.04.09

Well, perhaps not. Yes, we have to admit that yesterday’s wholesale re-brand of US Telecoms behemoth Verizon was indeed an April fool.  In case you haven’t seen or read, there …

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