Entries Tagged as 'design'
We’ve just made a book (retro!) called Stories from the edge of the known world. The bound hardback is home to ten adventurous tales including an Antarctic voyage, a front-line reporter’s account in Iraq and blog posts from a mission building a life changing eye hospital in Tanzania.
Each one is carefully written to sway our […]
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We were very privileged to be invited to our first SheSays event. 60 minutes of intense book critique and mentoring at the offices of Wieden plus Kennedy.
above ~ a poster design from Shahnaz Ahmed
It was like speed dating. 10 minutes for teams/designers to pour their souls out, seeking jobs…advice…love.
Some great ideas and beautiful pieces of […]
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Tags:·portfolios·SheSays·women
The latest edition of Gum magazine, our in-house rag, created by staff, is here! You can have a read (and maybe even bag a copy for yourselves) at GU towers. This special pocket sized issue reviews the last decade and comes with a free 2010 calendar illustrated by some of our secret artist movement. Turns […]
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Make it up as we go along? That doesn’t sound like us at all. We had two and a half weeks to concept, write and design our quarterly in-house magazine. Gum was a colaborative project and a massive (and sometimes drunk - Parnell) effort to complete. Well done. You can read an online version here.
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Last Tuesday morning I went along to Olympia to join my fellow judges in our inflateble igloo. It was predictable, I guess, that so many of the entries relied on rich video and the entries from Tokyo had seriously big budgets. However, it was good to see work where the idea was king. The kind […]
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Tags:·awards·creative·D&AD·igloo·judging
So I got these eggcups for Christmas. Now I can’t stop eating eggs!
Eggcups! Not the most eggciting gift? Well, these are different. They’re part of a collection called ‘Is That Plastic?’ from our friend and master of pottery, Helen Yoyo. She has a knack of evyolking memories in a contemporary way.
Take a looky at her […]
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Tags:·ceramics·eggs·is that plastic?·retro·Yoyo Ceramics
The bottom of an invite we put together for three beautiful boozy broads…and as it turned out, we were right about the booze. 10 points to us!
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Tags:·70s·booze·charlies angels·girls
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