What’s the number one thing you should do when creating logo? I’ll give you a couple of clues: it’s just one word, begins with r, ends with h and rhymes with research. This is one, because there are many, of the key aspects that unfortunately some creatives forget to leave out of their time-lines. Sometimes [...]

One of the many people to come out of the woodwork after the London riots is Adrian Wyatt. The chief executive of Quintain stated that “If they don’t respect where they live, they will trash it”. He goes on to say that town planning is of the utmost importance given the rise of the city; and [...]

What makes the perfect gift? Well if it’s from a loved one then there’s a whole raft of complications to take in, such as how much do you like them, what purpose the gift is going to serve (it doesn’t really matter that the ironing board your mother in law gave you matches the curtains) [...]

What’s the biggest thing you’ve ever designed? The layout of your bedroom? A website for a multi-national corporation? The logo for your daughter’s school dance? Well whatever your answer you probably haven’t designed anything as big as Adam Ryder who’s designed a whole world. This is the planet of Areth, a distant and abandoned planet. [...]

Today it was announced that Facebook have acquired Push Pop Press, the digital publishers and app designers behind the digital version of Our Choice. This was Al Gore’s sequel to An Inconvenient Truth and received much critical acclaim at the time due to it’s innovative nature and elegant structure. Unfortunately it seems that Facebook acquired [...]

If there’s one sartorial statement that I’ve always enjoyed it’s the knotted sweater around the waist. It speaks volumes about the wearer, but unfortunately most sweaters are too bulky for people to wear them around their waists comfortably. This is where Pretty Pink Toes Boutique comes in, they’ve invented  the ‘BootyWrap’. This is a “bulkless” [...]

Sometimes designers aren’t happy with just creating an exceptional logo, they have to put hidden messages in their design as well. We’ve already covered five of them on this blog previously, but now designers aren’t content with keeping it in the logos. Frederik Molenschot and Susanne Happle have come up with Solid Poetry, a way [...]

Everywhere you look these days everyone seems to be miserable, weighed down by their problems. Luckily though the world seems equally full of braniacs and boffins to whom the world is one big Rubik’s cube. But sometimes they get side-tracked, and instead of working on world hunger, the cure for cancer and peas taking over the [...]

It’s Friday, Friday, Friday (that’ll never get old) and you’ve nearly made it through the week. Congratulations, and add even more shine to your day the Lost Type Co Op has released their new fonts. Ok so they were actually released a couple of days ago, but we delayed this blog so we could have [...]

The best thing about the summer? All that sun to power your gizmo’s, well luckily we don’t rely on solar power in Britain. It’s been nothing but rain this summer, not that we mind. It makes everything oh so green and soggy. It does mean that we miss out on some cool stuff though, like [...]