Great Design Gallery: Absolut Vodka
New Coca-Cola Summer Can Designs
New Coca-Cola Summer Can Designs Coca-Cola are releasing five newly designed cans over the summer period. Working within the recent stripped-down/back to basics rebrand they make use of the printed red and the can itself to create summer-related objects such as a beachball, sunglasses and surfboards. I suspect these might even be considered collectable by […]
Dot Design featured on Channel Five’s ‘The Gadget Show’ – Twitter Story
Dot Design featured on Channel Five’s ‘The Gadget Show’ – Twitter Story Ok, to be fair it was only for a second! You can see the Dot Design Twitter icon and message I sent to Jason Bradbury about 1.46 minutes into the episode aired on Channel Five using the link below. Link to the whole […]
Designers / Creatives grow better in the South West
Perfect valentine card design for the manically depressed?
Perfect valentine card design for the manically depressed? I stumbled across this excellent and very funny piece over at juxtapoz.com If anyone knows who produced the piece let me know as I’d be interested in seeing some of their other work and maybe feature it too. Thought it would make an excellent valentine card for/from […]
Chimanimani Community Arts – Brochure Design
Here is a recent A5 brochure design I’ve worked on for Chimanimani Community Arts Group, they teach African drumming lessons to schools and colleges in the South West. “Chimanimani Community Arts Group was established to highlight issues relating to environmental protection and cultural awareness through the use of African dance, singing, drumming, story telling and […]
The Designers Republic has closed its doors
The Designers Republic has closed its doors Sad news this week as The Designers Republic closed their doors after 22 years of design work. The legendary design company who worked in many different sectors from music to video games to beer brands, created great design very much in their own style and will be very […]
Design Student Spotlight 1: Mike Messina
Design Student Spotlight 1: Mike Messina Like many designers and design companies I quite often receive CV’s and samples of work from design students. As much as I’d love to employ these designers I’m currently not in the position to do so, so rather than keeping hold of their work until the chance arises I […]
Is it fair to have public design competitions being entered by design professionals?
Is it fair to have public design competitions being entered by design professionals? After my post yesterday highlighting The Royal Mint’s new design competition to design a 50 pence for the 2012 London Olympics I came across a story on the Design Week website: Royal Mint to Launch Olympic coin competitions Which details that there […]
Design your own coin for the London 2012 Olympic Games
Design your own coin for the London 2012 Olympic Games The Royal Mint is currently running a design competition that’s open to everyone in the UK. The design competition involves designing the new 50p piece that celebrates the forthcoming 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games. The design competition is open to all UK residents aged […]