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Tag Archives: Books
Creative Island II
Whilst on the subject of books (just in time for christmas you might say?), John Sorrell has compiled yet another coffee table book of the most “Inspired Design from Great Britain”, strangely enough entitled: Creative Island II. There are some quite … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Bangras, Books, Creative, Design, Grand Tour, ideas, the National Gallery
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Really Good Book Explained
This week Rockport Publishers sent us a copy of their Really Good Packaging Explained book which is the second in a series following up upon Really Good Logos, Explained. The book showcases the favoured designs of four of the world’s … Continue reading
Book of the Week
This week’s book, comes courtesy of the walking book shelf (and creative director) himself, Nick Eagleton: Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles For anyone bored to tears with the same 10 typefaces we use for everything, a veritable cornucopia … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Books, Creative, Flash, History, People, Typography
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Student/Graduate Q&A
Following on from Greg’s post about how he got into design we decided to ask our two designers currently in charge of our placement scheme; Paul and Leon, about how students should go about applying for placements at design studios. … Continue reading
Big Book of Self Promotion
This week we were contacted by the publishers of the forthcoming book: the Big Book of Self Promotion to inform us that two pieces of design by The Partners are to be featured within it. They have chosen our Client … Continue reading
‘Local’ design
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
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
Preston Profiles – Robert Ball
Our Design director from t’north Robert Ball has been featured as part of the Preston Profiles feature on design blog The Disciples of Design.