With a background in architecture, a bit of magic from ‘Click Through’ the pink unicorn along the way, and a focus for getting back to the hand and keeping things simple, Scott Thomas is a man architecting change. As the Design Director for Obama’s 2008 campaign, Scott, ‘Simple Scott,’ has a philosophy of simplification which has been illustrated in more recent years with the Noun Project. We’re pleased as punch Scott managed to spare a […]
Finally, someone has spoken what we were all thinking, writing the bio on your website is not fun, it is awkward and everyone feels a tiny bit silly having to do it! Mash sum the feeling up well by liking it to putting an ad in a singles column; I whole heartedly agree. It has to be said however, that if Mash were to place that ad I am in no doubt that their door […]
Index, the Auckland based design studio founded and run by Jonty Valentine and Amy Yalland, have just published their first book, ‘Explorations in Indexing‘. And what an exquisite piece of shelf-candy it is too… EiI the outcome of an open-ended exploration into the idea of indexing, functioning partly as a self-promotional device, the book is a sort of visual manifesto for the practice – it’s quite a stunning way to lay down the gauntlet and announce the […]
Times, they are a’changin for London’s Victoria district. Mainly, with significant investment and development encompassing, amongst other things, a vast increase in public space across an 81,800sqm site right opposite the station. The plan is to embrace a diversity of retail, residential and office space, along with a four-storey library to serve the local community. There’s other developments in the pipeline too, but the challenge that really faced the troupe at SomeOne, was how do you encapsulate an […]
The branding and website for the £9m Battle of Bannockburn project were launched this week signalling the 700 day countdown towards the 700th anniversary of the famous Scottish battle, when a new state-of-the art visitor attraction will open to the public. Enter a thoroughly interesting brand identity… The new identity was created by Yorkshire’s The Beautiful Meme – with consultation from type giants Dalton Maag – reflecting the complexities of Bannockburn, each letter representing an integral part of the historic story. Take […]
When it comes to modern brand packaging there is one person that has been there since the start. She is undoubtedly the queen of packaging design and the awards and accolades that her company have received speak volumes about the quality and originality of their work. From champagnes to coffee, marmalades to mustards, perfumes to preserves, she’s done it all and all the while exuding a class and refined Englishness that puts the royal family […]
Design is one of those great industries where often the places you work become a tiny bit like your home, occasionally due to spending so much time there, but lets face it, we do so because we love it. Consequently quite often the little worker bees you share a table with become like a second family. Anyway it just so happens an agency in the beautiful Bay of Plenty area of New Zealand has put into practice what we […]
Traditionally, we haven’t featured many (if any) students or graduates on DJ. No real reason (we’ve long toyed with the notion to dedicate a section for it – there’s unquestionable exceptional talent out there ripe for the picking), but then it’s not everyday work that warms our cockles pops up in our inbox. But enough of that, allow us to introduce the delightful embroidery work of The University of Central Lancashire graduate Amy Jack. Says […]