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Best of Welsh Design Shortlisted

30/09/2011
by DJ
News

Launched at the Welsh Assembly building in Cardiff Bay by Design Week Editor Lynda Relph-Knight, the shortlist for 2011’s Cardiff Design Festival Best of Welsh Design Awards has been announced and there are some outstanding contenders in all categories. In fact, testament to the health of the creative industries in Wales, there are some outstanding contenders in the initial entry list that somehow didn’t manage to make the judges’ cut. Judges for the awards this […]

50/50 Project

06/09/2011
by DJ
News

50/50 is a collaborative experiment, a platform of 50 little bets: digital projects created and run by individuals and teams of makers. Each project aims to engage a network of supporters to help spread the word and generate as much money for famine aid as possible. Launched in August, 50 projects in 50 days is an innovative way to raise £1 million for famine relief in East Africa through graphic design. Already signed up to […]

Diet Coke, now with added logo

01/09/2011
by DJ
News

We’ve all been there; head firmly slapped into hands as the client phones through “yeh, I really like what you’ve done here but uh, can you make the logo bigger”. Against your better judgement, you duly oblige. “Great yeh, um, bit bigger again…” and it goes on, until the only thing to satisfy them is seeing what was once a beautifully balanced layout dominated by their identity. Well, it may be of some comfort to […]

Wood Type Revival

30/08/2011
by DJ
News

Get your font junkie self over to newly-launched Wood Type Revival (site designed by the awesome Bearded), purveyors of rare historic wood type, lovingly digitising them for the modern designer. There are some real corkers in there and we’ll be checking back to their blog in earnest anticipation of seeing great examples in action, particularly now it’s been announced the foundry is available on Typekit. (Roycroft is a personal favourite, incase you’re asking). Tw. @woodtyperevival […]

Murray Ballard {Brighton}

13/08/2011
by DJ
News / Photographers

Murray Ballard has released unprecedented images of the world of cryonics, which involves freezing a dead person’s body in liquid nitrogen until, proponents argue, technology has advanced enough to bring them back to life. His collection was compiled over a period of five years and magnificantly, and ofter hauntingly captures the people and stories behind the process. The process can cost anywhere between $15,000 and $100,000 if you’d like it done yourself…  

Design Week no more

30/06/2011
by DJ
News

A mainstay of our Thursday lunchtimes for almost as long as we’ve been holding a pencil, we were sorry to hear this week  the end is nigh for print editions of Design Week after 25 years. The publication will instead focus its online presence. For us, its indicative of the times and was perhaps somewhat an inevitable move. It’s a real shame though, there’s nothing like flicking through the pages over a lunchtime and sharing […]

DB Student Awards

22/06/2011
by DJ
News

Design Bridge have announced the winners of their student awards, loving titled The Dog’s Bollocks. Says DB: “Over the course of three days all submissions were reviewed by the whole London studio and then shortlisted for our creative directors to decide the final winners of this year’s Dog’s Bollocks.” You can read more about the judging and the criteria here. A selection of our favourite of the impressive winner’s work is shown below, {credits below […]

8000 is the new 2012

22/06/2011
by DJ
News

The 2012 Olympic torch prototype has been unveiled by Seb Coe, designed by acclaimed designers Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby. The symbolic design has 8,000 perforated holes, each representing one of the 8000 torch bearers. It weighs 800g and stands at 800mm tall. The triangular shape also has connotations with the three Olympic values; respect / excellence / friendship. {Images ©Getty Images / London 2010 Olympics}