Category Archives: Design

(Two) Hundred Years of Heinz?

Posted on 03/09/2010 by Dominic

Why do food brands think looking to the past is the future?

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Safer cars = more dangerous drivers and other paradoxes

Posted on 19/08/2010 by Nick

If you’ve ever wondered why you can spend an aeon in a traffic jam on a motorway with no apparent cause, why we’re so intolerant of each other when we’re driving and why we think it’s ok to speed but … Continue reading →

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Typecasting

Posted on 18/08/2010 by Sofia

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 here

Posted on 17/08/2010 by Rufus

Alongside the part of my phone that actually makes calls (the old fashioned bit), my Google Maps app is probably one of my most used. It’s become indispensable in the same way that being able to text once was. What … Continue reading →

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Simply tan-tastic

Posted on 23/07/2010 by Helen

It always really excites us when we welcome new blood into The Partners. Having recently added 3 lovely new designers to our London teams, we were stunned and delighted when one of our ‘new bloods’ leapt out at us from … Continue reading →

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TED – talks that made us think

Posted on 07/07/2010 by Dave

For about a year now, we’ve been screening some of the highlights from TED online (talks from remarkable people, spanning technology, education and design). On one occasion we recreated a live TED, when Rory Sutherland came in to recite his … Continue reading →

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We Are Happy To Know You

Posted on 05/05/2010 by Sofia

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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Creative Review Annual 2010

Posted on 23/04/2010 by Helen

This week Creative Review have launched their 2010 annual.

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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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