All Blog Posts Tagged 'design' (20)

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:

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Added by Ewan McIntosh on October 31, 2009 at 4:16pm — 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… Continue

Added by Brian Harvey on September 23, 2009 at 11:32am — 3 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… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on September 21, 2009 at 8:00pm — 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 i… Continue

Added by rufflemuffin on September 3, 2009 at 1:38pm — 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 collabora… Continue

Added by Darcie on August 27, 2009 at 8:00am — 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 Research 3. Drawing The Sk… Continue

Added by Kathy Maxwelll on August 25, 2009 at 7:43am — 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 launch a new fashion cloth… Continue

Added by Greg Povey on August 10, 2009 at 1:02pm — 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… Continue

Added by rufflemuffin on July 22, 2009 at 12:48pm — 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.… Continue

Added by Colin Gilchrist on May 4, 2009 at 8:24pm — 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 des… Continue

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

Prizes announced at half-time for Social Innovation Camp call for ideas!

You've only got four weeks left to enter your idea for Social Innovation Camp Scotland. Over one weekend at the Saltire Centre, Glasgow we’re bringing together some of the best of the UK’s software developers and designers with those at the sharp end of social problems. Their mission will be to turn six back-of-the-envelope ideas that could change the world into social start-ups - complete with working software. And all in under 48 hours. And here's what the most promising idea will win: - Up… Continue

Added by Katherine Hui on April 28, 2009 at 10:50am — No Comments

Classy Chasis - Decorating Data

So many web aggregators look like they got dressed in the dark. Its refreshing to find news or data aggregators that are well-designed and can even be considered to be aesthetic. My favourite is Newsmap,… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on April 17, 2009 at 9:00pm — 6 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 save the newspaper? It i… Continue

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

Beautiful new Textiles book

This lovely new book by Bradley Quinn features designs and interviews with 36 of 'the worlds most visionary designs' as Scotland on Sunday put it. I'm very proud to have been included amoung them :) You can pick up a copy direct from http://laurenceking.co.uk/product/Textile+Des… Continue

Added by Carlene Edwards on April 2, 2009 at 4:00pm — 2 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.… Continue

Added by Darcie on March 25, 2009 at 1:00pm — 8 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 t… Continue

Added by Darcie on March 17, 2009 at 3:25pm — 6 Comments

I get "bloggerviewed" on Education in the United States

reprinted from OpenEducation.net Ira David Socol on Teach for America, KIPP Schools, and Reforming Education by Thomas Today we present readers an in-depth interview with Ira David Socol, author of The Drool Room and the web site “SpeEdChange.” Our interest in talking with Ira centered upon three critica… Continue

Added by Ira David Socol on December 12, 2008 at 10:47pm — No Comments

Free Pitching- is it just us?

Another day another dollar, or not so much. Not for the first time I find myself preparing design ideas for a pitch we have next week, a free pitch, unpaid design time, it's an oldie but a goldie. Conceptualising ideas is my favourite part of the design process, doing some research, pulling the ideas together, sketching up roughs, creating Photoshop mock ups, showing them off and waiting to see if you've got it right or wrong. I love it, it's so exciting, yet it's the part of the process that of… Continue

Added by Mhairi Mackenzie on October 24, 2008 at 11:42am — 1 Comment

Customization for real.

Wow, am I getting carried away customizing my 38minutes page? You can do some pretty cool things, I'm rather surprised. I've even put some of my music on here, so you can listen using the nifty flash player. I've got an RSS feed linked into wiiloopmachine.com, and I've changed the header and colors and everything. woot! I'm not too happy with the flickr widget I found, though, anyone know a better one? The Widgetbox ones look nice but don't seem to wo… Continue

Added by Yann Seznec on October 14, 2008 at 11:50am — 2 Comments

Global thinking on Technology, Entertainment and Design

TED - Technology, Entertainment, Design - started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Now it has a global sphere of influence, and its speakers include Steve Pinker, John Maeda, Bill Clinton and Clay Shirky. Check it out here Continue

Added by Nicola Black on September 28, 2008 at 10:27pm — 1 Comment

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