Author: DJ

SAS go BBA

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London’s SAS have completed work on the annual report for Signature Aviation, which, they say is more than just a compliance publication. At the centrepiece, were a series of images from Benedict Redgrove that show the style of the business and reflect its sense of quality. “It is a tool that is used to build the company brand as it grows in strength each year in the aviation services market. Our role is to ensure that the company […]

Make {Copenhagen}

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Long time lovers may remember a post from back in May 2012, when we featured NZ’s finest on tour designer Mike Collinge, taking it to the masses ~ touring his expertise around Europe. Well, it looks like he’s found a place to hang his hat, in the shape of Copenhagen design studio Make, who themselves produce top drawer treats, as evidenced by their spanking new site… “The world is our playground and we are passionate […]

Pop goes SomeOne

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Ok ok, it’s pretty well known that here at DJ we’ve been seduced by the somewhat wicked touch of the dastardly designers at SomeOne. It’s for many reasons; we love their thinking and their work, on the whole, and their approach is a little bit different, which we appreciate. So they slapped a smile all over our chops with this new branding for WorldPay, “the UK’s top payments provider” and a “bit of a global giant”. A […]

YCN Studio team up with Childline

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ChildLine, the UK’s free, confidential helpline and online service dedicated to children and young people, have commissioned YCN Studio to write and produce an animation to sit within the ChildLine website, offering support to young victims of sexual abuse in search of help. Many young people who try to find a way to talk about their problems describe the immense difficulty involved in “finding the words”. It was decided to focus on this insight by staging […]

Liverpool students shoot for the Ballon D’raw

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“Illustration and Design students need to be able to maintain a balance between having something of their own to say and also being able to talk to an existing audience; the relationship between education and commercial practice” Mike O’Shaughnessy, Senior Lecturer, Liverpool School of Art & Design. Ballon D’raw is a collaborative project between football magazine SPIEL and Liverpool School of Art & Design, which took the winners of the Ballon d’Or as a start point of an examination of the links between […]

Profiles – Chris Mitchell

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Genuinely, there are few people whose work over the years I have admired more than that of Chris Mitchell. I’ve enjoyed it for its precision, consistency, refinement and transcending timelessness and, in simplest terms, utter beauty. The list of top notch agencies who have Chris in their little black books is remarkable and his work has won countless awards for the people who commissioned him. If you’ve never stumbled across the name before, the quickest glance at his […]

SomeOne’s all seeing idea

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Jeepers, creepers, it’s been a while since we’ve had a our fill of SomeOne brand-hugs so, always ones to duly oblige, SomeOne have come running, arms open though insisting on being big spoon. The product of several months work, the chaps and chapettes at SomeOne towers have created an adaptive new visual identity for a new visually-led advertising agency, BigEyes, based in Victoria, London. The new agency is called BigEyes due to their visually-led approach to […]

Zebra in Moda

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Fashion merchandising company Palette 1.5 wanted to launch an online retail concept store that could compete with e-commerce giants the likes of Net-a-Porter and Asos. They wanted to create a brand with a distinctive space and attitude that would appeal to fashion-forward young women and men. With this in mind they approached the Singapore-based consultancy TFO to help with their marketing. TFO then asked Zebra to help develop the blueprint for the new brand. “We […]