Graphic Designer Focus: Non Format
Graphic Designer Focus: Non Format All graphic designers are inspired by other designers work, one design company that inspires me and I’ve admired for a few years now is Non Format. They continue to be innovative, fresh, daring and cutting edge with their
How to get a job as a Graphic Designer
Photo by ptobin Just the other day I received a question on Twitter from Adam at Design4Love: “Hi.. how are you? Do you have any tips for me how to get into the UK design industry (Other than sending applications to agencies). Thanks!” Which got me thinking about how difficult it was for me and […]
Design Book Review 2 – Logo by Michael Evamy
Logo by Michael Evamy The Blurb: ‘Logo showcases the greatest logos in use today. Whether it is the product of a flash of inspiration or a flood of research the logo remains one of the most powerful resources available to organisations for winning the attention of a global, time-poor audience. There is work by […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How to avoid a "Frankenstein’s Monster" of a Brochure Design!
Those of you that have read the about section of this site will have seen that I’ve worked at two London based design agencies in the past. When working at one agency we used to have a few sayings for different design-related happenings. One of the things we used to talk about was called a […]