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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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 –…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Mar
13
This article sets out the stall for using a multi-disciplined and experienced designer rather than a specialist designer. There are many branding gurus or SEO experts out there but the reason why designers can often become multi-disciplined is due to a combination of software evolution and clients expecting more for…
Sep
10
Photoblog of the “100 Years of German Architecture & Design” at Las Naves, Valencia. The exhibition runs from the 30th of October until the 15 of January 2013 and presents the work of Deutscher Werkbund from 1907 to 2007. However there’s lots of Bauhaus inspiration, design and history included.
May
12
During a recent trip to Spain (April 2011) I was in Segovia (30 mins north of Madrid) with my girlfriend who is originally from the city. We were there to visit her family and to a attend a wedding. These were two planned events but what wasn’t planned while walking…
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