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Tag Archives: D&AD
Design Competition
On Wednesday I was lucky enough to be part of the judging panel for this years D&AD graduate academy. The afternoon consisted of me, and a collection of fellow design bods, locked in a boardroom reviewing a large selection of entries over … Continue reading
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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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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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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Will you be there?
It’s that time of year when thousands of young efferfescent design students leap out of the colleges and universities, eager and hungry to show their off their potential to become the next Aziz Cami’s and Alan Fletcher‘s. What better a … Continue reading
Congratulations Matthew!
Imagine the initial deafening stunned silence, from the envious population of pencil seekers that rocked the room at the D&AD awards last night when previously unknown 26 year old designer Matthew Dent took to the stage to collect a Black … Continue reading
Everyone starts somewhere
Last Thursday saw the final Presidents lecture and, for me, it was a pretty good way to end. The talk was an opportunity to hear the stories from those of various creative sectors and how they got to where they … Continue reading
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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D&AD Student Awards
This week saw D&AD announcing the Student Award nominees. With over 3,000 entries this year the judges really had their work cut out for them. As this years D&AD Education Chairman, our own Greg Quinton was there to assist in … 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.