This article was published 10 years Design can be as much about storytelling as it is about creating something practical, functional and aesthetically pleasing, and storytelling can exist in anything from a pendant light, a crafted timber chair or a beautiful ceramic dish. For illustrator and editorial designer Kayleigh Hadley,…
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Pick Me Up showcases new graphic artists
This article was published 10 years Pick Me Up, the annual festival for the graphic arts, is back at Somerset House for its seventh year. Showcasing illustration, animation, 3-D installations, stationery, and for the first time this year – ceramics, the show is in town until 02 May 2016. confessions…
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Weaver Rowenna Mason breathes new life into the ancient craft
This article was published 10 yearsKate Brewer, founder of Look Like Love, profiles a different new designer every week. With the tagline “support, nurture, promote” echoing confessions of a design geek’s own “discover, champion and inspire” and a similar commitment to advocating for emerging talent, the parallels between Look Like Love…
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Venn Creative wins Media Innovation Award for Cedar Juice branding
This article was published 11 years Cornish graphic design agency Venn Creative has won the coveted award for their brand identity for the Canadian cold pressed juice. Working closely with another Cornish company, content studio Stranger Collective, Venn Creative created the brand identity, which included logo, packaging and e-commerce website, around…
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fiera :: issue 2
This article was published 11 years I am delighted to announce that Fiera Issue 02 is just weeks away. We go to print this week, but I wanted to give you a sneak preview of the front cover – featuring a number I spotted at Ambiente Frankfurt, and like the rest…
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interview :: jessica walsh
This article was published 12 yearsThis month I’m sharing my favourite posts from 2014, and this is one my favourite interviews of all time, with the incredibly talented Jessica Walsh… Sagmeister & Walsh are a top New York graphic design agency run by Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh. Quite aside…
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interview :: petter johansson
This article was published 12 yearsI’m sharing some of my favourite post from this year all throughout December – I loved meeting Petter and am still really inspired by his experimental approach to creativity… Whenever I visit a city for Design Week, alongside the organised events, I always try to…
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creative spaces :: sagmeister and walsh
This article was published 12 years If you’re going to install a video camera in the ceiling of your studio and use the live feed as the homepage of your website, your studio better be pretty damn nice. And Sagmeister & Walsh’s studio is certainly that. I have been cooing…
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out and about :: temple of agape
This article was published 12 years Martin Luther King said, “I have also decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it…
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interview :: rob ryan
This article was published 12 years I have been a Rob Ryan fan since his entire studio decamped to Somerset House for the very first Pick Me Up, a graphic art exhibition now in its fourth year. So I was very excited to finally get the chance to interview the…
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interview :: sam osborne
This article was published 12 years Graphic designer and illustrator Sam Osborne has been on my periphery for a little while now, so it was really exciting to finally see her designs properly and get to know her a little better. We talked colour, science fiction B-movies, and plain old hard…
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photos of numbers :: 12-25, 1-10 & 20-24
This article was published 12 yearsHello and happy Friday! This week’s selection of numbers have a bit of a retro vibe! The top and bottom images are from a fabulous 2013 diary I dug out recently. And the middle image is of a wonderful archive system at the British Library…
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design for good :: sowhow
This article was published 12 years I believe that design has the power to make people’s lives better. Sometimes that’s something profound, like Maggie’s, sometimes, it’s something quite simple. Bristol-based Paul Matson launched SowHow last weekend to help people grow their own vegetables for the first time. He says, “A…
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out and about :: designs of the year
This article was published 12 years The Designs of the Year exhibition at the Design Museum is one of the highlights of my year. Now in its seventh year, it showcases all the nominations for the Design of Year awards and includes architecture, digital, fashion, furniture, graphic, product and transport…
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interview :: stack magazine
This article was published 12 years Stack is such a refreshing concept in these days of online algorithms constantly narrowing what we’re exposed to in line with what we’ve expressed an interest in before. The premise is that you pay £5.50 a month and every month you’ll receive a different…
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interview :: kristina dam
This article was published 12 years I met Kristina Dam at Home London and again a week later at Maison et Objet in Paris. I was really struck by her work – it’s refreshing to see someone doing something really different in surface pattern design and to see Kristina’s graphic…
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design for good :: a better a&e
This article was published 13 years It might seem strange but A&E departments are places where normally rational people often become aggressive and in some cases physically violent. Briefed with finding a solution to this phenomenon, PearsonLloyd looked into the causes of this aggression. They found that patients and their…
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out and about :: imprint
This article was published 13 years I was excited about Imprint at Craft Central, billed to be “a cross-disciplinary exhibition of printed design,” and it didn’t disappoint. I am a bit of a print-nerd, and I loved the different ways that “print” had been interpreted by the exhibitors. I hope…
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creative spaces :: studio dempsey
This article was published 13 years I was recently honoured to interview the graphic design legend who is Mike Dempsey. I like the biography on his website, so much, I’m going to let him introduce himself: “Mike Dempsey has been has been around the block a bit. A graphic designer for…