by Gillian
9. March 2010 17:41
ingers were tripping over the old keyboard, ducking in and out of the endless swamp of internet information, when I came across a great little blogesque site by illustration/typographer Jessica Hische. Who on an almost daily basis, posts a hand-crafted alaphabetic letter for the world to see and use. She details a little bit of code for peeps to paste into their own blogs. Which is rather sweet.
08f3b2d8-4154-4110-bf54-b07f7024fe1a|0|.0
Tags:
by Gillian
1. March 2010 16:42
Hands That Do Dishes
Marking 50 years of Fairy Liquid (50 years! is that all?) the people at Fairy have relaunched the nostalgic white bottle from when it was mild, green, made your Mum's hands as soft as her face and Blue Peter used them to make everything possible.

New Look Observer
I personally bemoaned the loss of the Observer, around for 200 years and then shelved,but it is back, hurrah!and better than ever. Dropping the multiple supplements that earmarks a Sunday paper, it is less cumbersome, and the layout is marvellous. The people at Press Gazette should be patting themselves on the back.
9f6a1cac-f55c-42e0-ba45-f5b06d24c80e|0|.0
Tags:
by Gillian
23. February 2010 12:33
Innovation. The wish of every designer worth their salt, but alas, most will just produce design that fits or follows a trend. Nothing wrong with that, most of the time that is what the client/customer wants, it just means that these designers are not the ones setting the trends from which other designs will be inspired.
As an example...


...this is more blatant than most!
6bad5d39-9f42-48e0-a9ef-459f6395184a|0|.0
Tags:
by Gillian
5. February 2010 17:23
Not breaking news I'll grant you, but I still think it's worthy of a blog spot.
Boris and the bods of London have hired design agency Saffron to rebrand London at a cost of £500,000. They want a brand that is as successful commercially as the I 'love' NY logo created by Milton Glaser.
However I'd argue that London already has a strong 'brand identity'; the colour is red, and the evolving, but still familiar London Transport roundel, adapted to its most successful form by Edward Johnston, the unofficial logo. Of course 'London' cannot officially adopt this symbol for their own. So I see the logic behind wanting a specifically London logo, I'm just skeptical about spending £500,000 on an identity that has to work with the heavy existing personality of London. At worse it’ll be a heavy price tag for an Olympic banner that will blanket London in 2012, only to be then confided to the history books. I hope it’ll understanding the evolving, but traditional nature of the city and create something that grows on Londoners so they believe in it, because if they don’t it’ll never succeed.
da42e8eb-0575-463a-ac6b-cbaac89f71b3|0|.0
Tags:
by Gillian
29. January 2010 17:51
Reading, okay skimming, through the newest addition of graphik magazine (new cover, which is all very 'wall art')I saw an article on Rob Ryan (rather talent personage with a scalpel and paper)who has create an installation at the YSP, that's Yorkshire Sculpture Park to you and me.
If you are in Wakefield (where the park is, then I think it would be worth a little look-see.
http://www.ysp.co.uk/view.aspx?id=693
b8f20b6c-9a40-4ae0-a547-30480b9f2066|0|.0
Tags:
by Gillian
19. January 2010 14:15
40fd5deb-ccb5-45c3-8ee4-44714261ee30|1|5.0
Tags:
by Gillian
18. January 2010 15:12
In Short:
"It can be said that creative advertising is like brain surgery. When advertising is artfully done it cures people of the status quo by activating neural circuitry.
To be creative artfully requires a dynamic mix of imagination andunderstanding of how the world might work. This is not a matter of being correct, but rather a matter of making the audience wonder, provoking a self-referring reverie that elicits an expanded idea of ones- self and how the world works. As a result, we see anew.
This, of course, flies in the face of traditional methods of measuring advertising effectiveness. It also runs counter to today's corporate metric-mania and near incapacity to conceive bold strategies and innovations.
Insight is the coin of business success. While numbers can provide a means for measurement they cannot "embody," or suggest, meaningful insights into the human experience. At worst, numbers provide an excuse to abdicate decision-making responsibility while placating executives desirous of propagating 'business-as-usual."
To read the whole article, click
here
7f3370ee-d02a-4092-9aa9-b95d593da7d3|0|.0
Tags:
by Gillian
15. January 2010 11:59
f624a5ed-6a20-4dba-8411-7194911c0853|1|5.0
Tags:
by Gillian
14. January 2010 17:31
This site is a marvellous little portal of visual stimuli uploaded by people of the world, who have seen it, been inspired and want to share it.
http://weheartit.com/

72c0862f-8daf-47ea-9673-24539df85f8e|0|.0
Tags:
by Gillian
4. January 2010 14:46
For a quite a while now I've been a little obsessed with comedy moustaches, and it seems that I am not alone. Moustaches are inspiring design in loads of product areas; appearing on t-shirts, prints, mugs, dogs... the list is long and varied.




98b33830-0a29-4210-a51a-71fdb96526e0|1|5.0
Tags: