Posts that don’t quite fall into any other category but are still totally useful.
The COVID-19 bug sweeping the world at the moment has changed life as we know it, grinding both personal lives and businesses to a halt. The design industry has been impacted just like every other sector out there. In response, President Trump announced a set of guidelines called “15 Days to Slow the Spread“. There […]
In Wednesdays article about how designers can offer help to local businesses during the Coronavirus outbreak I touched on how we can offer some out of the box thinking for businesses that might not be able to trade online naturally. I want to expand on that a bit more here, and broaden your thinking beyond […]
This is a tough message to write. It’s tough because right now, I’m sat at home on lockdown with no real financial support from the government. It’s tough because several clients have cancelled or postponed upcoming projects amid fears of money issues. It’s tough because I’m not sure what to do. But that’s nowhere I […]
A graphic designer should know the importance of brand identity in today’s marketing world. You don’t want people to get the wrong impression of your brand, so you have to make sure to capture your brand’s identity. Capturing your brand’s ethos given only a small image and a few words can be a massive task […]
It’s 28 days until Christmas! Are you excited yet!? Yes!? Well chill out – it’s still November for Gods sake. That being said, you do probably want to start thinking about what to buy your creative loved ones this Yuletide, so I’ve put together this list of all the things I personally want this year […]
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Recently Penny Arcade launched their new TV series Strip Search in which a myriad of talented web cartoonists battle it out week on week to beat out the competition and win themselves a spot in the Penny Arcade offices and $15,000 cash to help catapult them into their career as a purveyor of premier web […]
There’s been a lot of talk in the media recently about big “household name” brands falling into the realms of administration and other dark legal sounding words. In the UK at least, it’s almost as if every new Monday brings with it the collapse of one of the high street behemoths we all grew up in the shadow of, […]
My fiancee and I went for a stroll around Sydney’s busy shopping district yesterday and stopped to listen to these guys busking in the street: We stood there for half an hour, bopping to the music and watched at least 30 people put $10 into their guitar case and pick up a CD. My fiancee […]
So you may not have heard this yet (especially if you’re one of those cool designers that I keep seeing on trains using the new MacBook Pro Retina) but Microsoft has given itself a brand new logo. I say “given itself”, because that’s exactly what they have done. Using only current Microsoft employees, the new […]
The Go Media Zine holds a special place in my heart. When I was first getting started as a graphic designer Go Media was definitely my guiding light. I spent a lot of time searching around other design firms, trying to get an idea of how I should present myself, and generally how I should try […]
