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Art is controversial. Doesn’t matter how you slice it. One man’s meat, in the world of art (these days more than ever) is another man’s poison and few artists divide opinion (between the art critic clique and the rest of humanity) than Damien Hirst. Much like art, the Brit Awards (and others like the Mercury […]
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When the internet was just a nerdy pass time and the depository for poorly rendered 3d rotating logos, print still rulled the roost but those with an eye on the future could see that prints’ day in the sun was over and the new frontier was going to be a wholly digital affair. Just look […]
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We’re back in the studio, it’s been a sunny start to the morning and 2013 stretches ahead of us like a smooth, untouched, pristine sheet of paper waiting for us to make our mark. Until we do, here’s a quick look back at some of the design trends on the web that became big news […]
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Once the colour bible of the designer and the printer, the Pantone® swatch books were merely an expensive but indispensable tool for doing a job, to choose colours, to specify colours to assess colours, the use colours accurately. Before anything so clever as digital printing, before computers and the internet, these little, chunky, multi-coloured floppy […]
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With the tsunami of sausage machine pop jingles and classic songs peddled out for the umpteenth time, it can sometimes feel like we’ve all been here before. Each Christmas can feel eerily the same (Noddy Holder telling us it is once again Christmas, in a voice that could wake the dead and stripped back midi […]
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Any web designer will tell you that one of the most important aspects of creating any type of work is knowing that once it’s done, the vision presented is as the designer conceived. Whether it’s Pollock and his action paintings, a Charlie Harper illustration for a children’s text book, a magazine cover or an interface […]
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Well, it’s nearly finished (well, we’re almost 75% done) but we’re busy busy busy, so it’s getting in the way of us posting insightful, amusing, witty or scathing articles about design, art or anything else that takes our fancy. We might even post about our own work. Never mind, Next year the Death Star will […]
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