Part sustainable water company, part art project, part philanthropic project, and not that new. Boxed Water Is Better they say, is it really? What with it being the fashion to be ‘going all green’ these days, so it was with a healthy dose of scepticism when I came across water in a Tetrapak pack… The …
Kirsty bought me Geometric, for being good last week. It’s gorgeous and I keep sniffing the fresh print and smiling. Printed on heavy matte stock, it features an embossed cover that’s wrapped in an American-style poster and bound with a distinctive rhythm technique. The colourful and monochrome patterns are enough to get any designer dribbling …
Fridge magnets are normally a bit crap and the kind of thing your well meaning granny might give you after visiting someplace you never actually wanted to go to. And no, it’s not that now over done rubbish fridge poetry, where you can put together rude sentences but when you read them back it makes …
Those tip top Landscape architects Anouk Vogel and cooler than polar bears architect Johan Selbing have just won a high profile competition to design the new lighting and furniture for the Vondelpark in Amsterdam. Their jaw dropping winning entry, called Vondel Verses, includes fabulous kiosks, funky park benches and some nice lamp posts. Each object …
There are so many traditional advertising agencies out there in trouble and they’re all blaming the recession. However, yes times are difficult but this is a lame duck excuse. These mainly ‘traditional’ agencies totally missed the online video trend and social media is still frightening them. They keep banging on about the fragmented media landscape, …
Lucky for us living and working in around wonderful Brighton, we have loads of great talks and get togethers from geeks to designers, social softies and just about everything inbetween. The next great opportunity is to hear some ‘experts’ speak about SM (social media not sadomasochistic) and how it is going to influence our lives …
Browser support for typography is a bothersome process and the cause of much debate, head scratching and occasional out bursts of frustration. So when we heard that the legend Jon Tan of Omni TI and local user experience super brain Richard Rutter were doing a Skillswap talk on typography, we made sure our bums were …
The Brighton digital crowd of uber nerds, super geeks and digital deities are a difficult lot to keep up with up… what with all the groups, twittering, fashionable co-working, and of course, the awards, talks and socials it can all be a bit of a social whirl wind. For us lot here at Brightenup we …
Looks like the Royal Mail has done something right, instead of just loosing our mail all the time. Those clever Royal Mail types have come up with the British Design Classics series - 10 tiptop stamps, commemorating some classic British designs. So now the Royal Mail will look cool, as they loose the parcel.
The design …
The world for type junkies just got a load better. FontShop Berlin has announced the release of Fontshuffle, a type specimen catalog for iphones and the ipod touch.
So, with our type junky hands trembling with anticipation, we downloaded, installed and got a font fix and it was good and really bad too. First of all, …
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