It’s Friday and time for Friday5! Today we introduce Peter Ayuba from Lateral+Concept.    ONE: Peter, the slogan of your studio “Lateral+Concept” is “Intelligent Design”. What makes a design intelligent in your opinion? A Design is intelligent, if it’s able to communicate its essence effectively and without necessarily doing so intentionally. An intelligent design doesn’t [...]

Welcome to Friday5. Today we introduce Ivan Villanueva Gonzalez, freelance creative from Mexico City.   ONE: Ivan, you’ve got a college degree in visual communication and more than 10 years work experience. Does the college degree still help you in your daily job? Or was it only about getting good basic knowledge at the beginning [...]

Good business or shameless plug? For American football fans there isn’t an event much bigger on the social calendar than The Super Bowl. An annual championship game of the NFL (National Football League), the highest level of the sports profession, to say the event draws in a a huge crowd would be an understatement.   Naturally [...]

It’s that exciting time of year again and The Design Museum London has announced it’s long listings for the Designs of the Year 2012 exhibition. The chosen selection for this year looks at a variety of work from a extensive range of backgrounds including graphic, interior and product design – such as Barber Osegerby’s Olympic [...]

As a creative lead, it is very tempting to pitch a winning idea to a client and then let a junior designer or intern execute the project. People deny this practice, but I’ve seen enough of it over the past 10 years to know that it’s a common bad habit that results in disappointing work. [...]

 2011 was the year that vintage reached its splendid apogee. It was nostalgic, hip and brightly hued, but this year is set to look a little more subtle. Prepare to see stylists, art directors and photographers reaching for their pastel palettes and setting aside the obvious, digital dark-room effect that has characterised recent imagery. It [...]

Did you know ogle is an anagram of Lego? Neither did we, until we saw this 33ft tall Christmas tree in London’s St Pancras Station. It’s constructed entirely out of Lego bricks, complete with Lego ornaments and Lego QR codes. The tree has 172 branches, from which dangle 1200 Lego baubles. It took 2 months [...]

How do you know that the colour that you see as blue is the same that everyone else sees as blue? Extensive tests have shown that we all perceive the world differently. A claim that can be taken beyond mere colours and can be applied across the whole spectrum of life. So when you reference that [...]

As anyone who’s watched Mad Men knows, the idea is king. All you need to do to be a big success in advertising is turn up late to a meeting, have a scotch, and blow the clients mind with such a simple idea that only someone as complex as you could have thought of it. [...]

When GM modified plants first cropped up they received a mixed reaction. Though they presented a lot of benefits there were questions raised over their environmental and allergenic effect. However, the reaction to GM animals has been decidedly more positive. Of course animals have a big advantage over crops simply because they’re a lot cuter. Let’s [...]