Courier Media is based in London and a “proud member of the Mailchimp family” published the “ultimate guide to starting a growing your dream business” as a five-step guide to inform people how to take control of their working lives. The five sections are: Daydreaming, Foundations, Launch, Momentum and Opportunities.... read more →
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Dec 14
I took myself to see the “Design + Health” exposition, open from the 11th of November to 19th of March 2023 at the MuVIM in Valencia. As a designer with an scientific background and a creative focus on the health sciences I had to make the time to see this;... read more →
Feb 28
Domain Names A domain is the address for your website and its resulting pages, each requires a unique identifying url and this is provided by a unique domain name and the subsequent page titles. Top level domains (TLDs) such as .com, .gov or .org are highly sought after so the... read more →
Feb 22
I visited the "Frutas de Diseño" at CentroCentro an exhibition from the Madrid Design Festival 2022. A selection of company identities from the Spanish fruit industry since the 1950's were collected and presented. This was of interest to me as this sector is widely diverse and I was interested to... read more →
Aug 04
It’s typical these days, with technology getting better and more free, for people too want to do everything themselves. This has long been the case for research posters. Research students and scientists alike making use of powerpoint or whatever is to hand, to pull their data into a piece of... read more →
Mar 20
I thought I write this short overview about how design professionals can work with marketing professionals after reading several marketing books, and realising how their objectives are similar yet different, while identifying and alleviating potential conflicts. Designers and marketeers are generally considered as peas in a pod, working with a... read more →
Feb 14
"Esto no es un cartel" by Isidro Ferrer exhibition was on in the Palacio del Quintanar during February 2020. The Segovian exhibition centre had a series of exhibition on that day, all which were visual communication in nature. This gallery blog offers a taste of the work on show that... read more →
Sep 25
1. Find your Voice Knowing who you are and what you are about, helps to inform your tone of voice. This matters to what you say and how you say it - as tonality is 80% of communication. This should be considered when making choices to word choice and artwork... read more →
May 07
BBVA a banking beehemoth in Spain (and other countries) has changed its branding design to a digital first approach and is worthy of special consideration. As the BBVA rebrand comes after Santander's modern tweak: moving from serif to san serif; the creation of Bankia which originated during the crisis and... read more →
Feb 17
Recently visited the Super–Packaging: Design serving Design exhibition which is part of the Madrid Design Festival in February 2019. This article presents key images from the event sharing Spanish packing design inspiration to visitors - enjoy. And comment if any items spark some ideas. Event Link: http://madriddesignfestival.com/en/actividad/super-packaging-design-serving-design/
Nov 25
When recently visiting Cambridge, Creatifik took the time to photograph an aspect of branding and way finding design which is important to a range of people who may not always be considered when logo and branding designs are being crafted. Here we show a variety of logo designs and manufacturing... read more →
Nov 14
Life Sciences in Scotland: Moving Forward Together to 2025 and Beyond Technology & Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde 12th November 2018 Organised by The Scotsman newspaper, key players from the Scottish life sciences sector gathered in Glasgow to learn about the Life Sciences Scotland 2025 plan for the future –... read more →
Nov 01
Ten years has went by past undeservingly fast as it seems a deceptively short period of time to be called a decade. Back in October 2008 a design studio focused on the needs of scientific, technology and healthcare professionals and organisations was started, called i2eye design. Our first client was... read more →
Jun 07
Rise of Visual Search Google will use visual tags, descriptions, file names and even the pixel nature of the image compositions themselves to rank sites with a much deeper analysis of the artwork within websites. From July it's expected to be the case that stock photography will be known to... read more →
Apr 02
There's some important changes coming into effect on the 25th of May 2018, and your website, marketing and sales items needs to be ready for them. The issue is complience to General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). Long story short, everybody who has a website, or holds people information, has records... read more →
Sep 23
On the 30th of September the Social Media and Digital Marketing event took place at the Palacio de Congresos in Valencia. The event was put on by the local school of marketing and web, the host was Miguel Florido Robledo the director of the school. Lots of people gave up... read more →
Oct 29
Visited the National Gallery of Scotland today (29 Oct 16) with Sara enjoying that part of Edinburgh on a Saturday morning at the end of the month is always welcome. Was there to catch the end of the Joseph Beuys: A language of drawing exhibition which I generally didn't like.... read more →
Jun 05
Good copywriting goes hand in glove with good graphic design for effective visual communication. The best creative and communication outcomes are usually from the projects that recognise the relationship, of words and image, the earliest - and begin in partnership. Mark Shaw puts the reader in the shoes of a... read more →
Mar 14
This post shows a few images from my visit to the Museum of the Image (MOTI) in Breda within the Netherlands. The museum was presenting a mix of design from: classic posters, modern design items, the Sagmeister chair, key images from social media virals, an Oculus experience and a focus... read more →
Feb 17
This post shows more photography from my visit to Amsterdam during February 2016. On the second last day I pretty much spent the entire time at the Stedelijk museum enjoying a range of different exhibits - the last day before my flight was the Van Gogh Museum, which is just... read more →
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