In a time before Photoshop
This is a true story. I was an Art Director at a design agency in the early 90s and the builders merchant Travis Perkins was our biggest client. I'd given
A party bag of thoughts, opinions and interesting articles on design.
This is a true story. I was an Art Director at a design agency in the early 90s and the builders merchant Travis Perkins was our biggest client. I'd given
You remember the scene in The Matrix, where Neo is offered the choice between the red and blue pills? When I worked in advertising and design agencies for 16 years,
My name is Simon and I'm a logo-holic. I like looking at them. I love designing them. It's one of the best parts of being a graphic designer. That blank
I’m loving the graphics for the Sky Documentaries Channel. The black & white, the styling and the fold-out reveal are both well conceived and executed. It puts me in mind
When you visit a website and can't immediately find what you're looking for, that site has pretty much failed. Attention spans are so short – we've all become so used
Smooth? Plush? Substantial? Or a bit flimsy? Ok, silly questions. But wait a minute... Often your first impression of a business is from the moment you pick up their brochure.
Walter Landor was a brand design legend and the founder of Landor Associates mostly known for designing the FedEx logo (among many others). It was a product of a long
The ‘new’ Google logo has been refined so that the ‘imperfections’ make it work VISUALLY. Type has all kinds of oddities to make it work for the eye and designers
Years ago, I threw together a logo in literally 5 minutes that had to go on one little thing at the last minute for a client. Basically I typed the
You'll be staggered at the prices paid for some pretty average logos (yes, Accenture, I'm looking at you). Yet a couple of the most famous ones cost only a few