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Tag Archives: Designers
50 penny for your thoughts
The reverse side of the UK’s new 50p piece, to commemorate the coming of the 2012 Olympics to London, features a crudely drawn high-jumper in mid-flight. By the standards to which we are generally accustomed, it’s a terrible piece of … Continue reading
Posted in Brand Strategy, Branding, Brands, Business, Design, Logos, Marketing, Strategy
Tagged 2009, 50 pence, 50p, Art, Bad, brand, Brands, Business, Coins, Conversation, Design, Designers, experience, Free, Fun, Google, haecceity, History, hypokeimenon, logo, Logos, London, Marketing, News, Olympic 50p piece, Olympics 2012, Paint, People, quiddity, ted, the National Gallery, Work
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Just our type
Today we paid a visit to the lovely people at Woodside Press at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for some help setting some type for an exciting new job. It was great to get away from a computer screen for a … Continue reading
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
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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‘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
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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Agent J
Last night, with brain cells pumped, we took part in the second McNaughton’s Paper Pub Quiz, held this time at Ball Brothers in the City of London. Twelve design agencies took part to see who had the best nerdy glasses, … Continue reading
Laboratory
After the success of our make-it-yourself catalogue for last year’s Jerwood show ‘an experiment in collaboration’ (featured in the Creative Review annual, Design Week Awards runner up and winner of a Platinum award at Graphis) we were asked to make a … Continue reading →