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The Crossed Cow is The Partners blog. A collection of views, opinions and inspirations gathered from the team behind the UK's most highly awarded brand consultancy.
Category Archives: Graphic Design
Do it to see it to do it
I’m sure that all the Norwich students, past and present, here at The Partners, share Gareth Robert’s view (below) from this week’s Design Week periodical. I’ll never forget the deadly silences when Ray would lean back on his chair, put … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Design
Tagged Art, Design, Design Week, Norwich School, Ray Gregory, Retirement, Student, Students, Teaching of Art and Design, The Partners
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My talk at the recent D&AD pub night
A couple of weeks ago I participated in a D&AD pub night held at the Hoxton Pony, called: An Apple A Day: Technology in design. The D&AD pub nights are informal presentations by designers to designers, based around a particular topic, … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Design, Digital, Graphic Design, Technology
Tagged 2009, Art, brand, Brief, D&AD, DandAD, Design, Designers, Digital, Education, experience, Lectures, People, pub night, Technology, ted, Video
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ISTD 2009
Friday night saw The Partners host the ISTD (International Society of Typographic Designers) Student Awards for the third time in as many years. The awards night celebrates the end of a long, tough journey for each of the students involved, … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Design, Graphic Design
Tagged 2008, 2009, Alan Kitching, Art, Awards, Brief, Creative, Design, Designers, Flash, Free, ISTD, People, Student, Student awards, Students, ted, The Partners, Typography, Work
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The Best Job In the World?
To encourage young designers from schools and colleges, our Creative Partner Greg Quinton was recently asked by D&AD to provide some pearls of wisdom in a personal take on having a career in design: You may have seen all the … Continue reading
Posted in Agency, Architecture, Branding, Design, Graphic Design, Portfolio, The Partners
Tagged 2009, Advice, Art, Business, careers, Creative, D&AD, DandAD, Design, Designers, Education, experience, Free, Graduate, Greg Quinton, People, play, Quinton, Shops, ted, The Partners, Work
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Little Yellow Book in the Big Yellow Book
Our relationship with Thrislington cubicles goes nearly as far back as The Partners itself. It’s a testament to them that they still commission creative work after all this time. Our latest project – Thrislington Education – is introduced by this … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Design, Graphic Design, Portfolio
Tagged 2009, Art, Awards, Brochures, Creative, D&AD, DandAD, Design, Designers, Education, New York, The Partners, Thrislington, Toilets, Work
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The learning curve
This week’s Design Week Magazine, includes a insightful article about ex-TP designer Dana Robertson and about his new start up design business Neon. After graduating from Norwich School of Art and Design (now known as Norwich University College of the … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Graphic Design
Tagged Agency, Art, Brief, Business, Creative, Dana, Design, Design Week, Friends, Identity, Neon, Norwich School, Start up, ted, The Partners
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Davidoff Black & White
We haven’t shown much of our work (in fact, we haven’t shown any at all yet) on this here blog, so I thought it was time to buck the trend a little bit. The plan is to try and showcase … Continue reading
The joy of stock
This will make anyone who works in the design industry have a little chuckle. I know where I’ll be going to get my next set of images for my moodboard…
Fast Backwards?
I hate it when people moan about ‘copycat/rip-off design’… Usually, that is, because I believe that fundamentally all designers want to be original. I try and give the ‘benefit of the doubt’ or ‘assume ignorance’ whenever it’s possible to do … Continue reading
Posted in Brands, Design, Digital, Graphic Design, Logos, Marketing, Media, Motion Graphics, Technology, The Partners, Typography, Uncategorized, Video
Tagged Design, Designers, Fun, Identity, logo, People, play
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