The Big Fat Design Quiz of the Year

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Steve Edge: Design, dyslexia and dressing for a partyMy usual gripe with design talks is that they can often be a little one-dimensional. Most are used as an opportunity for a portfolio brag or an exercise in name dropping when all I really want to hear about is the people and processes behind the glossy images and flashy websites, and what I can […]

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Welcome to Bristol!Welcome to Bristol! It’s early October and the streets are teeming with fresh young student faces, itching to explore their new city. I could patronise you and pretend that the following Bristol-centric facts are for their benefit, but really this influx of newbies is just a great excuse to celebrate our beloved Bristol. Seriously though, […]

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Calm Down Dear, It’s Just A Logo DesignEarlier this morning, after 30 days of different designs Yahoo! finally, and rather anticlimactically, released their new logo design onto the world. Along with the new design came a rather baffling statement from Marissa Meyer, the CEO of Yahoo! who professed to creating the logo herself with an in-house team over the “majority” of a weekend. […]

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Why WordPress? Here are just a few of the advantages of using WordPress as a CMSThis year the publishing platform WordPress is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary. With parties all over the world, and over 66 million installations it is apparently used on some 18% of the entire internet! So, for those of you who don’t really know what all the fuss is about, here’s a round-up of why we use […]

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Why You Should Own a SketchbookAfter spending an afternoon diving into a mammoth pile of my belongings that I’m giving away to charity, (mainly due to the fact I don’t want Channel 4 making a documentary about a 27-year-old Bristol based design hoarder!) I stumbled across all 30+ of my sketchbooks. From early school days, through to hipster friendly Moleskin […]

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Here London 2013On Friday 21st June we attended the second annual Here London event. Taking place at London’s Royal Geographical Society (RGS), Here is a one-day “fast-paced festival of creativity”. A creative symposium of “inspirational talks, experiments and live elements”. Curated by the team behind It’s Nice That, this year’s event boasted a healthy roster of thirteen […]

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Ride + Design: Branding, Design & Bike CultureWords and images by Sean McGowan Ride + Design is a one-off event in Bristol hosted by the Arnolfini and put together by The West of England Design Forum and local Bristol digital agency Pixillion Digital. The unique one-day event set out to explore the close relationship of bicycles and design, bringing together some of […]

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Apple Redesign iOS7 & Highlight The Value Of Graphic DesignThe western world is rapidly waking up to the role a graphic designer plays in modern society and Apple are playing a large part in enlightening the public. A quality exposition of the value of design, reading through the press release of iOS7 reminds me of a pitch for arts funding. I can’t think of […]