Design

The Joy of Book Design Books communicate stories, ideas and information. But they should also be beautiful objects. Their design must be both unobtrusive – allowing the text and images to speak – [...]

Rebranding has a long history In 1868, the handles on screens and furniture were being modified in the Shogun’s palace in Kyoto. Momentous change was happening in Japan. The previous decade an [...]

The heart of a visual brand is a logo. Most days we drive past an old engineering works. Now derelict, the Imperial Works of G.L.Murphy was established in Menston in 1930. Derelict since 2002, it [...]

Or why pricing strategy and good customer service were the keys to starting a Wharfedale based graphic design start-up.   Many business blogs are client help pages: quick tips or product [...]

Or how good design saves lives   Between 1957 and 1963 Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert produced a graphic scheme for Britain’s road signage, their uniform and effective approach replacing [...]

Or what you don’t notice is most important   Typesetting is the art of ensuring that text layout is both aesthetically pleasing and supportive of the reading process. All print [...]

Or the use of foreign words in marketing   In Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, there is a way, known as The Philosophers’ Path, that follows a stream between the temples of Ginkaku-ji [...]

Or the excitement of meeting Japanese art   This is the first blog for a month – our excuse is a visit to Japan, where we absorbed ideas and inspirations from both historic and [...]

Or finding a relic of London in a bag   I recently acquired a bag of possessions that belonged to my grandfather. Amongst the photographs and the diary entries there was a fold-up pocket map [...]

Or pity the poor designer   Only a few days ago we were tight in the embrace of the ‘Beast from the East’. Looking out of the office window, the hawthorn hedge was bare and stark against a [...]