Category Archives: Art

The Partners Poll #1: LeKay or Hirst?

Posted on 09/09/2010 by Helen

Damien Hirst once again faces claims of plagiarism, this time from British artist John LeKay. Get the full scoop here and cast your vote below in the first of The Partners Polls.

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Typecasting

Posted on 18/08/2010 by Helen

If a moustache hints at one’s personality, can it do the same for typefaces? Tor Weeks, a San Francisco-based art director that created this field guide, found out by turning brackets in various fonts on their sides. She writes on … Continue reading →

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We Are Happy To Know You

Posted on 05/05/2010 by Helen

New Yorkers and Law and Order fans alike know the “We Are Happy To Serve You” paper coffee cup is an iconic piece of old New York.

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What a lovely bunch

Posted on 06/04/2010 by Helen

As you may have seen from a blog post on here last week, we entered a competition run by Metro newspaper and D&AD to design a cover wrap for the Metro newspaper. The winner was announced last Wednesday evening at … Continue reading →

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Urban Interventions

Posted on 26/03/2010 by Helen

This week we had a very gorgeous design book delivered to our studio. Published by Gestalten, their Urban Interventions book is the homage of brilliant pieces of art and design in the great urban outdoors.

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Dia:Beacon

Posted on 23/02/2010 by Jessica

At the weekend I made a trip to upstate New York and visited the Dia contemporary art museum in Beacon. It’s an easy 90 minute train ride from Grand Central, with some pretty stunning views of the Hudson along the … Continue reading →

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Is this the worst film ever made?

Posted on 22/10/2009 by Kevin

We all love great films; Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Toy Story and of course the Star Wars trilogy to name just a few. There are also terrible films, you know, the ones that scrape the barrel for plot, like Catwoman and … Continue reading →

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Mini Grand Tour

Posted on 09/10/2009 by Kevin

Don’t you just love Twitter. Follow a bunch of design companies and blogs and all of a sudden your open to a whole world of stuff that you wouldn’t normally see, plus you get to see it a good week … Continue reading →

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Laboratory

Posted on 04/09/2009 by Kevin

After the success of our make-it-yourself catalogue for last year’s Jerwood show ‘an experiment in collaboration’ (featured in the Creative Review annual, Design Week Awards runner up and winner of a Platinum award at Graphis) we were asked to make a … Continue reading →

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‘Local’ design

Posted on 29/05/2009 by Helen

Suzan Dann, our intrepid culture-vulture has nominated herself to inspire us, every fortnight, with design that has impressed her on her travels around the globe. Her first reportage comes from the Fragrant Harbour itself – Hong Kong. It was there … Continue reading →

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