Photography by Karl Randay
I’ve had the pleasure of being involved in Plus - Birmingham’s international design festival for over a year now. As part of the run up to October, when the festival is running for the second time, we wanted to produce some additional work to show what’s happening in terms of design in [...]
This week I attended the bTWEEN conference on interactive media in Bradford. There were some great speakers and I got to meet some very interesting people and have more of those “wouldn’t it be great if” conversations.
The big news is that according to the bTWEEN Geek-o-meter (a questionnaire - see below) I am officially 100% [...]
Following the blog post I wrote about the new 2012 Olympics identity, I was invited to write a short piece for the Birmingham Post which was published today. Here’s it is:
The new identity for the London 2012 Olympics was launched this week and it would be generous to describe the public’s reaction to it as [...]
About six months ago I came up with the idea of setting up a blog to talk about all the creative and cultural things happening in Birmingham (UK), where I live. I’m a relatively busy man so I hooked up with Pete Ashton, blogger extraordinaire, who was thinking along similar lines so we got the [...]
The new ident for the London 2012 Olympics has just been launched. Designed by the world-famous agency Wolff Olins for a project of this magnitude you wouldn’t be blamed for expecting something of outstanding quality, cutting edge graphic artistry, amazing sound design, visual impact, attention to detail, engaging imagery, inspiring energy or unparalleled quality.
So I [...]