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 …
We are loving Spotify here at Brighenup Towers. It’s all the craze down here in Brighton and I am convinced in other towns in Europe. It is a new music streaming service. You don’t download illegal music from it, you just choose what you want to listen to and then it streams a whole album …
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 …
My favourite toy has been around in one shape or form for over 70 years. Its first incarnation was in 1932 created by Ole Kirk Christiansen, master carpenter and joiner in Denmark. By 1934 his company and products were named using the Dutch worlds for ‘play well’… OK I’ll give you another clue, by chance …
In the land of product and retailing, a year is not that long to get the all important Christmas gifting packs sorted out and on shelves for those pesky “early bird” shoppers who start in September. The brief to radically step change the Moosehead gifting range. The product will remain the same but the target …
Whilst making an invitation the other day to the myhotel end of year shindig, we stumbled across a little bit of a conundrum. Is it their ‘New Years Eve Party’ their ‘New Year’s Eve Party’ or their ‘New Years’ Eve Party’?
Woahh, now we have a problem, and just when it was all going so well. …
Most designers use typography to present information in a rather static way — after all, it has to be read by users. However, now thanks to Face37 it doesn’t have to be like that any longer and typography junkies can really play with fonts.
Type Trumps rocks and is simply genius. Different typefaces are attributed with …
It’s the real god damn thing. The anticipated ‘reassuringly God-free atheist bus campaign’ launches soon. Intended to counter the now commonplace religious advertising, the slogan “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life“, does raise a wry smile. Personally I’m unsure if I dislike evangelical atheism, as much as I dislike evangelical …
Brands are losing control of communications as media fragments and stakeholders use social media to communicate directly. In one response, Martin Lindstrom in his popular book, Brand Sense suggests that brands should “become a sensory experience that extends beyond the traditional paradigm, which primarily addresses sight and sound”(page 3).Our contention is that the branding world …
We all have to spend more and more hours in front of our computers these days. My wrists get clickly and my shoulders are up near my ears not to mention the stiffness in my legs and the inability of my back to bend to touch my toes like I could when I was 18. …
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