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We Improve the Process of Finding & Appointing Creative Professionals

Calling all creative professionals and those looking for their services!

We are a new Glasgow based website called tendify.com aimed at improving the process of both finding and appointing creative professionals to undertake your project brief, whether it be a request for a wedding…

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Added by Chris Johnstone on September 10, 2012 at 9:47 — No Comments

Smart designs for Smart Phones

Ok, its been a long time since my last blog! Time for a catch up and a mid-year resolution- to post more regularly, but first here’s some things I made earlier… see more here!…

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Added by Carlene Edwards on April 13, 2012 at 19:52 — No Comments

There Is No Such Thing As An Atheist In A Manhole

Professor Ed Glaeser is a world respected academic. His passion is the city, how it

works. For him, the city is the ultimate creation of human ingeneuity. The

fascination is how something so complex can form and keep working: the Triumph of

the City. Glaeser suggests that the heart of this fascination relates to two issues:

creativity and the economy.

Glaeser is an economist. At the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010, he

suggested that no economy is the…

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Added by Benny Robb on November 29, 2011 at 13:17 — 1 Comment

Launch Party Success

Before...

Sorry for the delay in letting you all know how the launch party for my solo exhibition went a few weeks ago! I have been so busy since then, popping in to check how my pieces are - rehanging one or two and finally putting in place the gorgeous large scale prints of The Queen's Hall bespoke designs. (which should have been there on opening night! Its a long… Continue

Added by Carlene Edwards on August 12, 2010 at 10:57 — No Comments

RemoteDJ™ - knocking spots off Spotify

Glasgow based company Open Ear launch RemoteDJ™, the UK’s first dedicated, fully licensed online DJ service for bars, cafes, restaurants and shops.

On May 24th 2010 Open Ear (http://www.openearmusic.com) launch RemoteDJ™, the UK’s first 24-hours a day online DJ service designed exclusively for business use. Through a simple online subscription system bars, cafes, restaurants and shops… Continue

Added by Brian Harvey on May 25, 2010 at 11:21 — No Comments

Design Competition - Common of Houses: Electoral Reform

Apologies all, I should have posted this competition on here a few weeks ago. The deadline is only 5 days away.

www.commonofhouse.co.uk

SUMMARY

At the start of the month I launched a design competition called Common of Houses: Electoral Reform which is asking artists and designers to rethink the UK voting system from a creative point of view. This can be through redesigning the… Continue

Added by Alburt on April 14, 2010 at 10:30 — 1 Comment

OUT OF TUNE: The urban crescendo, deafening spaces and noise, noise, noise!

We've been asked to write for Central Station as part of their 'Sound Month'. This is the first post http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/_Two-Open-Ears-OUT-OF-TUNE/blog/1782538/126249.html

We hope this is of interest to the design community on 38 minutes!

“ Modern man is beginning to inhabit a… Continue

Added by Brian Harvey on February 2, 2010 at 12:15 — No Comments

This is how to write a brief: make it brief

Mick Jagger's lesser known qualities as a superb writer of briefs, the one below to Andy Warhol:

(via SwissMiss)

Added by Ewan McIntosh on October 31, 2009 at 16:16 — 1 Comment

Open Ear selected as one of the finalists for Branding Talent 09

Open Ear never want to blow our own trumpets too much, so we justify this post by saying 'thank you' to 38Minutes for putting us onto the Branding Talent 09 competition run by NESTA, Aegis Media and Just-B Productions. Our branding idea to create a 'musical brand' and interactive online music station for Shop Direct was… Continue

Added by Brian Harvey on September 23, 2009 at 11:32 — 4 Comments

Featured Member: Jay Feeney

Jay Feeney is behind Freak Marketing Ltd, a digital marketing, brand, identity and design agency working out of Edinburgh.

Recently Jay and his team launched the Facebook application Get Them In, which allows people to send each other real drinkable gifts through the 300 million member social network. They're currently working on a standalone… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on September 21, 2009 at 20:00 — No Comments

My police described as 'timely', 'on the ball' and 'something that needs to happen now' at the SIPR conference

SIPR = The Scottish Institute of Policing Research. I attended their third conference yesterday. The emphasis was on the discussion of community policing, a term coined by John Aldersham back in the 70s, and first met with scepticism, which is what I thought my meet mypolice too.

How very wrong I was.

I took along visuals to aid my explanation to attendees as to what mypolice is about, taking them through how the public might… Continue

Added by rufflemuffin on September 3, 2009 at 13:38 — No Comments

Featured Member: Sarah Drummond aka rufflemuffin

Sarah Drummond is a Glasgow based director of mypolice, a recent graduate of the Glasgow School of Art and is currently collaborating her Masters at GSA with Skills Development Scotland to investigate how creative and service design approaches can fit into the public sector and how we can skills swap design tools to create better… Continue

Added by Darcie Tanner on August 27, 2009 at 8:00 — No Comments

Logo Design Creation Process From Concept To Completion

Do you want to know the secret of how top-quality graphic designers design logos? This article will disclose exactly how top-notch logo designers of today’s contemporary age design their logos. It will show the design route that these designers undergo to get to their final logo design.

Logo Designers Design Route:

1. Logo Design Brief

2. Background & Competitive… Continue

Added by Kathy Maxwelll on August 25, 2009 at 7:43 — No Comments

Branding Talent: win £1,000 and potential commercial commission

Enter your seed idea, win £1,000 idea development money, and a potential commercial commission with Shop Direct!

Just-b. Productions have teamed up with Aegis, NESTA and Shop Direct for Branding Talent #2

Shop Direct is a massive (and massively successful) home shopping organisation that has moved online in a big way over the last few years. They are currently in the process of preparing to… Continue

Added by Greg Povey on August 10, 2009 at 13:02 — No Comments

Mypolice heads down south

Well, its been a busy couple of weeks for mypolice. I’ve been down in London working with Think Public who are focused on using design to improve service experiences in the public sector. It was great for mypolice to see how they work and get involved in their co-design sessions which bring both service providers and the general public together to gain an understanding of how their services… Continue

Added by rufflemuffin on July 22, 2009 at 12:48 — No Comments

Newspaper Survival - another direction

The New York Times - are they pulling the rabbit out of the hat or grasping at straws?

The Kindle on steroids is the suggestion... not exactly handy on the tube.

But seriously is this the answer or are we going to get our papers available on our screens to read… Continue

Added by Colin Gilchrist on May 4, 2009 at 20:24 — 3 Comments

Textiles industries creative connection

The textiles sector in Scotland produces a wide range of products for the creative industries. For example, Screen Cloth, a seamless 5 metre wide fabric, is manufactured by some of Scotland's oldest mills in the Irvine Valley. This cloth is highly regarded as it allows production designers to create flawless backdrops for their special effects and reduces the need for post-editing.

These same fabrics are being developed for numerous applications in the development of… Continue

Added by Scottish Enterprise on April 30, 2009 at 9:00 — No Comments

Newspaper Circulation - Creatives can help?

I have a bee in my bonnet about the future of Newspapers after Rupert Murdochs comment about Google stealing copyright - he is clearly right to be nervous but not at the expense of Google - because the traffic it generates to his sites - he should be paying for it not viewing it as the enemy.

Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for newspapers in Eastern Europe has increased circulation by up to 100% (and won awards).

Can good design… Continue

Added by Colin Gilchrist on April 13, 2009 at 10:32 — 5 Comments

Does what you own own you?

Limited Edition Print

Gary Hustwit, director of Helvetica, debuted his second feature film, Objectified, last week at the SXSW Film festival.

Objectified is a documentary in interview form with 30+ product designers. Each telling how they came up with their idea and little… Continue

Added by Darcie Tanner on March 25, 2009 at 13:00 — 6 Comments

Header design competition for 38minutes.co.uk

Attention creative talents:

38minutes is in need of a proper masthead for the site and since we have the bulk of creative genius here, we are asking you, our members to design something for us.

The top three chosen by the admins will go to a vote on the 38minutes homepage. Being we are a non-profit site and have limited to no budget, the winning header… Continue

Added by Darcie Tanner on March 17, 2009 at 15:25 — 6 Comments

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