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Category Archives: Graphic Design
Fresh Meat
Each month, we’ll be posting a short profile on our most recent placements. You can find out a bit about them, and see some of their work…
Posted in Advertising, Animation, Art, Awards, Books, Branding, Brands, Design, Digital, Fresh Meat, Graphic Design, Illustration, Just for Fun, The Partners, The Partners Poll
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Linotype – The 8th Wonder of the World
Linotype: The Film is a feature-length documentary centered around the Linotype type casting machine. Called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas Edison, it revolutionized printing and society. The film tells the surprisingly emotional story of the people connected to … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Film, Graphic Design, Typography
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Fresh Meat
Each month, we’ll be posting a short profile on our most recent placements. You can find out a bit about them, and see some of their work…
Posted in Advertising, Art, Branding, Design, Fresh Meat, Graphic Design, Illustration, Just for Fun, The Partners, The Partners Poll
Tagged David Tolmie, Fresh meat, Placements, Tim Sumner
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World of wonders…
Gone are the days when curating was reserved for those academic art experts. Thanks to the web, there’s now endless websites dedicated to collecting the weird and wonderful.
Posted in Exhibition, Graphic Design, Just for Fun, Resources, The Partners, Uncategorized
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Fancy sharing?
If you like FFFFound.com (let’s face it, most of us do), or have played about with dropular – then add this one to your bookmarks and start adding photos, illustrations, graphics and just general *cool stuff*. It is called Fancy … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Design, Illustration, Information Graphics, Interiors, Just for Fun, Logos, Media, Packaging
Tagged Fancy, image bookmarking
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A is for…
A is for Awards. The annual YCN Student Awards ceremony was last night, in the magnificent Shoreditch Town Hall.
Posted in Awards, Design, Graphic Design, Illustration
Tagged Design, London, Student, Student awards, YCN
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Unnecessary Signs
A challenge within the field of design is to simplify information so that it can be easily recognized, understood and remembered. However, we are not always responsible for the content. Some information can be useful, some can border on being … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Design, Information Graphics, Posters, Signage
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Creative Review Annual 2010
This week Creative Review have launched their 2010 annual.
Posted in Books, Charity, Design, Graphic Design, Posters
Tagged annual, creative review, Design, Poster, Richard House Hospice
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What a lovely bunch
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
Posted in Agency, Art, Design, Graphic Design, Innovation, Marketing, Media, News, Photography, The Partners, Uncategorized
Tagged Competition, coverwrap, D&AD, Design, metro, Metrowrap, newspaper, UK
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Urban Interventions
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.
Posted in Art, Books, Design, Environment, Graphic Design, Innovation
Tagged Art, Design, Gestalten, Grand Tour, street art, Urban Interventions
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