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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.
Tag Archives: People
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
Posted in Shop, Typography
Tagged Art, Books, Creative, Flash, History, People, Typography
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Come rain or shine
There are somethings that you can guarantee about a British summer; Glastonbury will turn into a mud bath, there will be a hose-pipe band and Wimbledon will run into a third week. So far, none of these have come true. … Continue reading
Posted in Posters
Tagged Application, Art, facebook, Flash, GLA, People, play, Poster, Summer Party, ted, Work
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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
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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True to its roots
Manhattan is about to get its first-ever J.C. Penney store, and while the splashy ad campaign is decidedly New York in style, the middle-American retailer points out it’s maintaining its ‘we are who we are’ authenticity. Among the attributes it’s … Continue reading
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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Super8
After weeks of chasing fit people along the Southbank, it’s finally time for our BIG RACE! The Partners running team – Super8 – are running in the Asic’s British 10k Run this Sunday for Kidney Research UK. It’s a fabulous charity … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 10k, Art, Charity, Charity. Running, Google, London, maps, People, ted, The Partners, White
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Canned gold
This week saw the welcome return of our Creative Partner Greg Quinton. Whilst we’ve all been sitting gazing longingly at the sun through the studio window, Greg has been sunning it up in Cannes at the Cannes Design Lion awards … Continue reading
Digital gets bigger
We are pleased to announce that our digital strategy team is continuing to grow as we welcome both James and Ben to the team. James is a seasoned Digital Design Director having worked with agencies such as Hyper Happen, Poke … Continue reading
Posted in The Partners
Tagged Art, Design, Digital, London, People, The Partners, Work
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