Design Museum – This is Design & Terence Conran
My Philosophy is best summed up by the phrase, ‘plain, simple and useful’, Such things may not win many design prizes, but neither do they go out of fashion. – Terence Conran I’m a bit late with this one but a few weekends ago, I saw the Terence Conran exhibition at the Design Museum. I...
On finding my voice and not panicing
[Pocket Planner by Jessica Hische, writter of the blog post featured in this post and inspirational typographer and designer, I have this planner and carry it with me everywhere, wouldn't be without it!] Recently, I have been trying and trying to draw more, write more, sketch more, read more, lots of things…more and better. I’ve...
Typography on Pinterest
So, I wrote a quick post at the beginning of this year about the fact that I’d joined Pinterest. I haven’t had too much time to browse the internet and find things that are cool. But I have found a few things recently which relate to a personal project that I’m doing and I’ve added...
Thanks Steve
My first experience of a Mac was when I worked for a Graphic Design company for a week in 2003 as work experience. Later, my secondary school bought 5 old macs for the graphics department and I learned the very basics of adobe photoshop and illustrator, but still didn’t know quite what I was doing....
Gent
This is a project very similar to my previous post ‘Parklife’. Equally as clever, equally as mini, I do love mini worlds and the intricate detail that is usually involved. I thought I had to share this beauty too. “Gent Scheppende Stad” (Ghent Creative City) is an initiative of the city council of Ghent to...
Parklife
I came across the following project a couple of weeks ago on Collosal, one of the new blogs that I follow and really enjoy. This branding, by Briton Smith and James Kape, is for the Parklife 2011 Music Festival in Australia. There are many more photos here, of the little characters and scenes created for this branding. There’s...
The four icon challenge – Kyle Tezak
These are by Kyle Tezak, a visual designer working for Swink. I spotted these a while back whilst looking for graphic icons for a project I was working on. I think that other than looking really cool, it seems a good challenge for a designer, to restrict yourself to just 4 symbols to sum up a film...
You are the map maker
“What’s unique about these people whether they are designers, entrepreneurs, leaders of movements or strategists is that they started out with nothing but their talent and determination. Without a guidebook or instructions, perhaps from a place where you are right now they went on (and still do), to achieve amazing things in their creative, entrepreneurial...
Helveticons
I saw this a while ago and it’s only just popped up again amongst the designy goodness that I’ve been looking at. Following the principles of Helvetica are a set of icons for various things.You can buy a set of these beauties or you can download goodies like desktop wallpapers, folder icons and social icons...
Creative Mornings
Creative mornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. Each event is free of charge, and includes a 20 minute talk, plus coffee! You can currently join us in New York, Zurich, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and soon Chicago and London. A while ago, I saw that these Creative mornings took place in New...
Hierarchy of Digital Distraction
David McCandless, writer of one of my new favourite blogs, Information is Beautiful, has designed this Hierarachy of Digital Distraction infographic based on the many things that distract him (all of us) from doing actual work! It is so true, funny and I think it is successful as an infographic. It is also featured in...
All that glitters…
On the subject of the Olympics, earlier this week the medals were revealed to the world. Designed by David Watkins, I like the purple ribbons (for the Queen’s diamond jubilee) and I like the fact that they’ve used the Greek goddess of victory, Nike on the front (however, I think this is used in all...
