Design Assembly

I have always felt that there has been a strong connection between art & design and cycling. From art students on their beaten up racers to designers on their fixed gears. Here’s a festival that caters for not just the overlap of bike/artist but for anyone who loves bicycles. (more…)

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Posted in Exhibition, Film, Music
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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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You’d have to have been living in a hole not to have heard of Twitter. With lots of exposure from celebrities such as Britney Spears, Shaquille O’Neil, Stephen Fry and Barack Obama it really has entered the mainstream. However, most users’ experience of Twitter is via the twitter.com web site. But there is an altogether more pleasant way to engage with Twitter. (more…)

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Posted in Information Design, Interactive
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Often overlooked, the favicon is a key brand area for a web site. It’s a big design challenge for a little space. A 16×16 pixel square that appears next the web address in your browser. Designing for such a tiny space can be tricky. It can even be controversial. (more…)

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Posted in Branding, Iconography, Information Design, Interactive
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As recently discussed on this very site, the London 2012 logo, along with the brand in general, has been courting controversy ever since its unveiling. So why does the London 2012 web site feel staid and ever-so-slightly uninspiring in comparison? (more…)

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Posted in Branding, Information Design, Interactive
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