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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
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.
Wierd & Wonderful
Monday, September 8th, 2008Just stumbled across this on the Drowned In Sound website, a Japanese blog showcasing ordinary bento lunch box ingredients, arranged to recreate famous album covers. It even gives the breakdown of ingredients so you can create them for yourselves. Something like this has been done before with Lego I think too.
The Time Is Now
Monday, September 8th, 2008I was reading ‘Ways Of seeing’ by John Berger recently and was struck by something he wrote. In the section where Berger talks about ‘publicity images’ or advertising as it’s more commonly referred to, there was a section which states; ‘Publicity images also belong to the moment in the sense that they must be continually [...]
A sad day at Cains
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008It was sad day at Glorious last week when we heard that one of our favourite clients, Cains Beer Company, had called in the administrators. The company bought a larger brewer last year, becoming a proper landlord as well as brewer. It turned out to be a bad time to buy almost 100 pubs.
We produced [...]
Two years in a row
Monday, August 11th, 2008For the second year in a row, Glorious has made the top four design agencies in the north – beating hundreds, no let’s say thousands of design agencies. The North of England Design Consultancy of the Year survey organised by The Drum looks at creativity, client satisfaction, financial capability and peer perceptions. We came second [...]
Mantlepiece update
Monday, August 11th, 2008The awards season is upon us. So what better way to kick it off with a couple of nominations. Our poster campaign for French cigarette paper brand, Job, has been named a winner at the Gramia Awards – and we haven’t even put our DJs on yet. Now that’s the sort of award we like. [...]
Satisfaction’s what you need
Monday, June 16th, 2008Once again we were named among the top design agencies in the North – beating hundreds of firms to come fourth in this year’s North of England Design Consultancy of the Year Awards.
It shows our consistency (we were fourth overall last year too). The awards, organised by The Drum magazine, celebrated the fact that we [...]