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Noisy Decent Graphics
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Written by Ben Terrett, a Graphic Designer in London. This blog is primarily about graphic design followed by design in general and then some related stuff about communication, ideas and inevitably brands.
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Andy Cameron RIP

I heard the extremely sad news this morning that Andy Cameron had passed away. He died of a heart attack on Tuesday. Creative Review and Design Week have both written better versions of what I'm...

4 days ago

Where does the sky end?

Where does the building begin? Must be a hard building to clean. Lovely picture from Sao Paulo by jeremyet

5 days ago

New Roberts radio – wonderfully Rams / Ive esque

I bought a new radio the other day. For the bathroom. It's a Roberts Expression. It sounds glorious and looks wonderfully Rams / Ive esque. Lovely stuff. Pictures impossible to attribute as they...

10 may 12

Road Pairs – Galt Toys

Mother-In-Law brought this round the other day. Is there a similar company around today doing what Galt Toys did in the 60s/70s? Toca Boca? Pixar?

02 may 12

My new Converse ID

These new customisation websites are dangerous for graphic designers. This might end up being the colour scheme for the new kitchen.

01 may 12

Newspaper Club Student Week

Crossed posted on the Newspaper Club blog Last week was our inaugural Student Week. Lots of students use Newspaper Club at this time of the year for final shows and portfolios so we put together a fe...

30 apr 12

R/GA Getty Images Watermark Project

This is good. Watch the video, it explains it all. It's a really simple, subtle idea that does solve that 'oh bollocks where did I get this image from' art director problem. Nice work.

30 apr 12

Ive started reading blogs again

Using Google Reader. I'm restricting myself to 10 blogs. That's it. One in, one out.

26 apr 12

Guardian Europe Season mastheads (from 2011)

The original idea was to change the masthead to the flag colours and the language of the featured European country - das Guardian etc. They liked it but ran with this compromise instead. Changing the...

24 apr 12

Designs of the Year 2012

I love this exhibition / awards scheme. I love the way the randomness of the selections accurately reflects the diversity of design talent in the world today (and what "design" means) . I L...

20 apr 12

Adverts on a broken screen at Stratford station

This is an advert for the Sunday Sun, you know the one, similar to this. And here's a video.

19 apr 12

Android brand guidelines

Meant to blog about this ages ago. Didn't. Saw this picture the other day which reminded me. So, doing it now, in note form. At w+k last year we did an ad for the Guardian's new Android app...

19 apr 12

UP

18 apr 12

Breaking Daviess 3rd law

"if you make something that looks incredibly climbable, you shouldn't be allowed to say people can't climb it... especially if it's an entirely decorative thing. You should either...

18 apr 12

Rapha and Mellow Johnnys logo love

I love the Rapha logo. Amazing craft in the hand drawn type. The curves and proportions are gorgeous. Luscious and rich and yet simple. Beautiful. The other week we visited Lance Armstrong's sho...

17 apr 12

Interview with me on Its Nice That

Talking about the GDS Design Principles over here.

17 apr 12

I based our new bathroom on my Nike ID trainers

We've just fitted a new bathroom. And I based the colour scheme on a pair of my trainers which I created with Nike ID two years ago. Personalisation + graphic designers = endless possibilities. ...

16 apr 12

Visualisation of linked pages within GOV.UK

Not by me. But looks cool.

02 apr 12

Lytro camera in the GDS office

Much excitement in the GDS office as Frances brought her brand new Lytro camera in. Billed as "the first light field camera that allows consumers to instantly capture interactive, living picture...

02 apr 12

Three things that annoy me

1. It's well known that in Hollywood studios and agents fight over who gets top billing on a film. Essentially whose name is at the top of the bill. Or these days whose name comes first in the o...

26 mar 12

The Happy Pear Project

OMG I love these. Yeoh Gh's illusrations of Mr. Pear are brilliant. So refreshingly free of laboured meaning. Just a little pear having a few laughs. Or as Yeoh says, "I want to bring joy a...

19 mar 12

USERS

I had coffee with David The Designer the other day. He's a smart man. He told me that he'd always thought people in Govt departments should be made to sit with their desks facing the window...

16 mar 12

Lance Armstrongs bike shop Mellow Johnnys

Also from the Texas visit; Lance Armstrong's bike shop so called because one of his nick names was Mellow Johnny (from maillot jaune, French for yellow jersey). It was great. A bit like Look Ma ...

16 mar 12

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center visit

On the way home from SXSW we popped into the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, better known as Nasa Mission Control. It was good. Amazing to think of the history. But it was also quite sad. Whilst the ...

16 mar 12

SXSW, the new aesthetic and commercial visual culture

I was on a panel on Monday, at SXSW. It was called The New Aesthetic: Seeing Like Digital Devices. And it was organised by fellow RIGster James Bridle. People seemed to like it. it was the ...

14 mar 12

Come to our panel! #sxaesthetic

Monday 9.30am in the Driskill Ballroom, it's going to be good.

10 mar 12

Maybe the building got slightly damaged?

Come out of our office, turn right and keep walking down the Kingsway. Eventually you'll walk past an LSE building and you might notice this odd thing. It looks like a giant has crunched up the ...

05 mar 12

Yes, Im going to SXSW this year

Before we start and to be clear: I'm attending on my own time as a holiday, paid for by myself. Yes, I'm going to SXSW this year. A few of us from RIG are. We're speaking on Monday abo...

01 mar 12

Gorgeous ceramic gradient cladding

This building has appeared in Walworth behind the Elephant and Castle. These coloured tiles look gorgeous. And they're ceramic too which gives them a sensible robustness most building cladding d...

27 feb 12

Type nesting

Really lovely. Sent in by some planner down under.

21 feb 12

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