Logo Design – Points to consider
Adrian Frutiger says “The secret of beautiful form lies in its simplicity. The best logo is the one that a child can copy in the sand with one finger” and I couldn’t agree more, if possible a logo should be this simple.
BTEC First for Science – ldentity / Logo Design
Earlier this year we worked on the logo design for BTEC First for Science which is an educational scheme for teachers that has been set up for their Science BTEC National needs. As part of this service teachers and schools will be supplied with all the materials needed to run the Edexcel Science BTEC. The […]
Coca-cola gets a brand re design – "less is more"
Coca-cola have had their brand re design by design agency Turner Duckworth, focusing on ‘
Artist interview 1 – Elisabeth Timpone
Artist interview 1 – Elisabeth Timpone Dot Design has an interest in all areas of the arts as well as graphic design so as often as possible (probably once a month) I’m going to be interviewing artists that interest me. I stumbled across Brooklyn-based artist Elisabeth Timpone whilst looking
I’m A Scientist Event and Website Launch
I’m a Scientist, the event that gets young people and scientists talking launched this week. Dot Design worked with Gallomanor to produce the identity design, website design, teacher work sheets design, debate cards and other items for this event. We will be posting more images of the design material we produced for this event in […]
Should I print my brochure Digitally or Lithographically?
Should I print my brochure Digitally or Lithographically? One of the services we offer at Dot Design is the buying of print or print management as part of design projects. This can range from printing 100 flyers digitally to lithographically printing 50,000 festival programmes. But to those individuals or companies who wish to source […]
New Penguin James Bond book cover designs
New Penguin James Bond book cover designs Penguin has just reissued all 14 of Ian Flemings James Bond books with newly designed covers to celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the birth of Ian Flemming. The artwork for the covers was painted by British born painter Michael Gillette. More of Michael Gillette’s work can […]
Scribbles/Doodles/Illustrations, whatever you’d like to call them!
As you can tell from the post title I’m not sure what to call them but I basically produce pen illustrations, they aren’t of anything in particular, there is no planning or sketching its just drawn straight out. These drawings are produced over a period of time (when I get chance) and aren’t the product […]
Greener by Design
Greener by Design I’m in the middle of writing a post about how to be more environmentally friendly when getting your brochure, stationery or other printed material produced when I came across a site which suggests 50 ways to help the planet . I wanted to share it with you sooner rather than later, as […]
Create and build your own font
I’ve used StumbleUpon for sometime now, its a great way of, well, stumbling upon art and design related sites you just wouldn’t usually have found. Recently I came across Fontstruct a great little site that enables you to easily create typefaces/fonts out of grided shapes which it then creates in to usable TrueType fonts. The […]