On Turning The Page

I’ve been thinking about pages, print and scrolling for a while, mainly because I’m a designer and it’s part of my job, but also (I have to admit) because I quite fancy getting an e-reader of some kind. I’ve been thinking about... 

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Adobe Design Achievement Awards

http://adaa.adobe.com/ The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts. The competition – which showcases individual and group projects created with industry... 

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Oscarama for Logorama

In dozens of years of watching the Oscars I had never cared about the outcome of the Best Animated Short Film, but this year it was different as in the running was a 16-minute film done almost entirely out of, literally, thousands of logos. Created by... 

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MTV: More TV, Less M

Last year, exactly around this time, when we were thinking about what brand to spoof on April Fools MTV was the runner-up, but only because we thought no one would ever believe that the MTV logo would change. Ever Last year, exactly around this time,... 

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Information Landscapes in 1994 (MIT Prof Muriel Cooper)

Back in 1994, Muriel Cooper , one of the co-founders of the MIT Media Lab where she taught interactive media design as the head of the Visible Language Workshop , presented her work at the TED5 conference in Monterey, CA. Her presentation would initiate... 

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The Library of Congress Gets its Wings

It’s quite uplifting, in an Internet kind of way, that one of the most progressive, enriching and engaging content-driven web sites belongs to a 200-year-old American Government institution, the Library of Congress (LOC). In case you have never... 

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The Best and Worst Identities of 2009

2009 has been a great year for Brand New, with a bottomless source of new and redesigned identities from around the world, and we’ve all had good fun critiquing them in sickness and in health. But it all comes down to this: The Best and Worst.... 

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Saving the Environment, One Line at a Time

COP15 , the United Nations Climate Change Conference, is almost over here in Copenhagen, Denmark. With international politicians, police escorts, demonstrations, hotels fully booked and a lot of international press, the summit brings together top political... 

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Follow-up: Aol. Animations

A very quick follow-up on the rebranding of Aol. Sheffield-based Universal Everything has posted seven “reveal” animations that range from trippy to, well, trippy A very quick follow-up on the rebranding of Aol. Sheffield-based Universal... 

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M&M’s

Chocolate Editions was just launched by my good friends, Mary & Matt . I was lucky enough to taste several of the prototypes this summer and they are REALLY good Chocolate Editions was just launched by my good friends, Mary & Matt. I was lucky... 

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