Guest post at The Lounge Group – The Rise of the Digital Scrapbook Culture
Last week I wrote a guest post over at The Lounge Group’s blog, on what I call the ‘Rise of the Digital Scrapbook culture’. I’ve started to notice a trend among creative/visual types that I think reflects a wider shift towards a more visual culture. When was the last time you screengrabbed something from a...
Trends: Dating Sites with a Twist
I’m not going to lie; this year I joined a couple of dating sites. After being horrified at the idea (I just didn’t feel old enough, or cat-lady enough yet), my friend finally persuaded me to give it a go. After being pleasantly surprised (there are some right fitties) I’ve also noticed that the stigma...
YCC London Bang Bang Briefs At Pentagram
On thursday 10th March I was kindly invited to take part in YCC London’s first ever Bang Bang Briefs; a night of ‘problem solving with a element of urgency, and whole load of passion.’ In collaboration with Naresh Ramchandani, partner at Pentagram, one of the world’s leading design agencies, and his side project ‘Do the Green...
The Chances of Anything Coming From Mars…
I love War of the Worlds. I’m not talking about the over-hollywoodised version with that Tom Cruise, but Jeff Wayne’s amazing 70s musical! So much better. Mainly because of the lack of Tom and addition of David Essex. Much much closer to the original book (at least it’s set in London) which, by the way,...
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AW Trends: Yumi
As I said in a previous post about Yumi and our AW lookbook, I promised I’d post the trend boards for this season. Mainly because I curated and designed them! So these should be up in my Portfolio soon – I need to make a ‘Graphic Design’ subsection. I can’t publicicse most of the work...
Ads I’m not sure about: Hotmail The New Busy
Ok I don’t love this campaign, but it’s interesting and has made me think so I’ll share. It’s more ‘Ads I love to think about’ really. I’m not actually sure if I like it. I think it’s clever… or is it just really annoying and arrogant? You’ve probably seen the adverts, they’re all over the...
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Selfridges: New online shopping and brand identity
Surely, you could buy online. Surely. But no. It seemed the 21st century had slipped Selfridges by… if you wanted their stuff (and there’s a lot of it…) you had to get down to Oxford St or the Bullring (or the one in Manchester, but I’ve never been there) and buy it in person. Or...
Immersion 2010: Session 5
Last week we had a really good session actually. It was called ‘Nuts and Bolts’ and was focused on the specifics of being self-employed/starting a business. Talking about the differences between Sole Traders, Partners, Limited Companies (which I learned in Business Studies GCSE but it’s always nice to have a reminder) and making us think...
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Co-Creation Hub: Logo and Branding Co-Creation Day
Back on the 15th January of this year, I took part in a Co-Creation day at the Co-Creation Hub, London. We couldn’t post about the day until after the Co-Creation Hub had gone live – now it has and I’ve got some time to post about it. A group of abut 15(ish?) of us got...
