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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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“Don’t take no as an answer, take it as a question”
Yesterday I was lucky enough to be invited along to the latest TEDx event in London. As we’re arranging our own TEDx event in October – TEDxNewSt – I was interested to see, first hand and up close, how they … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Campaign, Charity, Environment, Innovation, Media, Technology, Video
Tagged change, conferences, ted, TEDx, TedxNewSt
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Globe-surfing
If you’re anything like me then you’re likely to spend an inordinate amount of your life plugged into a day-dream playing inside your (cavernous) head where you’re living out an
Posted in Environment, Experience Design, Media, Resources, Uncategorized, User Experience
Tagged #traveling, countries, exploring, Globe Genie, maps, Street View
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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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Down the tube
The other day someone asked me where I’d got an obscure piece of information, about Bhutan, from. “Metro,” I said, “the source of all knowledge.” It was a tongue-in-cheek reply – I remembered later that I’d read it in Monocle … Continue reading
Posted in Brand Strategy, Branding, Brands, Business, Campaign, Innovation, Marketing, Media, News, User Experience
Tagged Advertising, brand, brand consultant, brand proposition, Brief, Campaign, Design, Free, Fun, ideas, littering, LUL, metro, monocle, News, Newspapers, People, philosophy, ted, thinking differently, tube, Work
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MTV EXPONENTIAL
Dave Wood is our latest recruit and we’ve decided to show you why. In this excerpt from his portfolio, he shows his D&AD short listed MTV project, created with fellow students Jack Gilbey and Chris Syrett. Over to you Dave. … Continue reading
Not a fan of Bush
We all had to suffer and endure eight years of W before his time was up. This cheeky little ad for Veet hair removal cream, probably spent as long as that sitting in a job bag, waiting, yet, hoping for … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Marketing, Media, News
Tagged 2009, Advertising, News, Obama, veet
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Sexy-time
A lovely little spot from advertising agency Fitzgerald+Co for Durex Condoms. Direction comes courtesy of Superfad. Simple and sweet, but not that innocent… You can see some out-takes on Superfad website.
Posted in Advertising, Agency, Animation, Branding, Brands, Marketing, Media, Motion Graphics, Video
Tagged Advertising, Agency, Durex, Innocent, superfad, tube
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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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