Design Assembly

It’s that time of year again, when hundreds of thousands flock to south west London for the world’s most famous lawn tennis championship, and for the first time in my life, I made the impromptu decision to go along on a day off and queue up with thousands of others to try and get in. More

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Posted in Branding, Fashion, Type Design, Uncategorized
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For the last few months I have been researching the personal photographic archives of others for a project dealing with seriality in photography (both book and web form). As part of my research I discovered a recent editorial piece by Joachim Schmid, ‘Other people’s photographs’, very similar to my concept which forces me to re-think my project. More

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Posted in Fine Art, Photography
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Ever since there has been design on the web it has been confined by certain restrictions. Most of these limitations have changed or relaxed over the lifetime of the web as a platform for design but one limitation clings on as maybe the last major hurdle in terms of the web designer’s creative arsenal – web fonts. But could this be about to change? More

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Posted in Interactive, Typography
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A growing number of people now look to the World Wide Web for their daily fill of news, style tips, gossip and daily design inspiration. Newspapers and magazines are facing profound challenges with the explosion of news and rich content. More

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Posted in Design Economy, Magazine Design, Print, Social responsibility
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Question:
Coca-Cola launch their new multi-million pound ad campaign. People like the ad but it doesn’t make them buy more Coke. Should Coca-Cola still pay the advertising agency?

Answer:
No. (According to Coke)

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Posted in Advertising, Branding, Design Economy
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We live in an age where we are able to view an almost endless amount of content (TV shows, films, images and more importantly user-generated content) whenever we choose through the internet. On demand is a phrase that is constantly being used in the media, and this week Channel 4 announced they were adding their back catalogue of over 10,000 titles to 4OD. More

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Posted in Photography
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It’s hard to outline what Swiss-American duo Sabine Lang and Daniel Baumann (L/B) actaully do for a living: Artist, architects, designer, illustrators, hoteliers or none/all of that? A brief introduction to their work…

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Posted in Book Design, Inspiration, Installation, Interiors, Sculpture
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Two weeks ago the BBC Radiophonic Workshop re-formed for an amazing show at the Roundhouse in Camden, to the delight of electronic music-lovers like me. These guys (and girls!) pioneered futuristic new music in the 60s that sounds like it could be coming out on Warp records tomorrow.

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