Archive for October, 2008
Guy Richie, Sherlock Holmes and a little place called Manchester
Friday, October 31st, 2008From Baker Street to Little Lever Street.
Events have been rather exciting of late at Glorious HQ; what with the birth of Tommy’s little boy Fred, wins at The Roses and Gramias awards, and…a leaky roof. Life round these parts is never dull.
Some folks scoff at our subterranean abode, but as Oscar Wilde said, “We are [...]
The American Election
Friday, October 31st, 2008Here are some nice graphics in support of Obama.
30 reasons to vote Obama
Emory Douglas_ Graphic agitator
Monday, October 27th, 2008Urbis’s latest exhibition features the work of Emory Douglas, active member of the Black Panther Party and graphic designer of the Black Panther’s, ‘Black Community News Service’. His arresting bold style and provocative slogans, helped to empower and motivate black communities during a time of civil unrest and upheaval, in the 1960’s and 70’s. A [...]
D&AD President’s Lecture – Matt Pyke, Universal Everything
Monday, October 27th, 2008Reel / 2008 from Universal Everything on Vimeo.
Last Thursday, a few of us went to the Liverpool Design Symposium and saw Matt Pike from Universal Everything give his talk. I think it’s fair to say that we were all pretty blown away by the whole thing. He seems to be operating on a different level [...]
Intelligent Waterfall
Friday, October 24th, 2008Intelligent waterfall
A few scoops including a Gramia!
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008This is us celebrating in London, where we picked up a Gramia Award from The Grocer magazine for our JOB posters.
As you can imagine, we were up against big swanky advertising agencies, like McCann-Erickson London, and were beaten to the overall ‘Diamond’ award by some agency called BBH, for Kentucky Fried Chicken. How immoral!
Pinky at Cup
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
I really like this guys stuff. Colourful, wierd, psychedelic and surreal. He’s appearing at ‘cup’ in a couple of weeks. Go check him out.
Telephone Boxes
Friday, October 10th, 2008Falling demand has meant that BT have removed 31,000 unprofitable telephone boxes since 2002. Thankfully, that leaves 64,000 available advertising spaces for our client, Buy Art Fair. The number to call for tickets is 0844 815 4867.