I think that it is well understood that colour is important in design, but do we understand why? I have to work with colours on a daily basis and a lot more thought goes into choosing your brands colours than you might think…
Do you have a favourite colour?
Many individual have strong preferences for specific colours, [...]
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12 February, 2010 – 5:21 pm
I was delighted this week to be invited to judge a creative writing contest at Oakfield Primary School in Rugby.
Mrs Walsh’s class of 9 year olds had to design a poster advertising fictitious chocolate – ‘Cocoas’.
Not only had everyone created great looking posters, I was amazed to discover that even at this early age, kids [...]
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25 December, 2009 – 9:00 am
Well here it is – Christmas day 2009!
At first glance it looks as though Mike has nothing better to do on Christmas day than blog , but I’m cheating (actually like most people on Christmas day, I’m probably well oiled and feeling stuffed from eating too much).For the geeks amongst you, I setup our CMS [...]
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10 December, 2009 – 9:15 am
On Wednesday 25th November I went to the Albert Hall to watch a mammoth 3 hour set by Snow Patrol. Firstly: what a venue – such an awesome place and made even better by our seats 3 rows from the front! It was a simple set, but it worked. Gary was incredibly charismatic and he completely [...]
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12 November, 2009 – 2:35 pm
Ok, so here at Cloud 9 we do have more than one type of ‘Geek’.
Ash is obviously brimming full of web type geekery but it does spread over to me on the Design & Print side of things here at Cloud 9 too.
I’m Simon and this is the first part of my ‘Print Geek Talk’ [...]
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5 November, 2009 – 10:37 am
Yes, it came 16 years before Google ever existed and yes, technically the song is about Cookie Monsters googly eyes, but some how it still sorta fits as tribute to the search engine giant.
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30 October, 2009 – 1:03 pm
We all love Google right? Of course you do. Ever wondered to yourself “Man I wish I could see the history of Google in a really cool animated way. Maybe like a scrapbook style?”.
Well lucky you
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27 October, 2009 – 5:32 pm
My professional blog entries are now on Linkedin.But what is LinkedIn?
Watch the video below to find out more
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2 October, 2009 – 9:54 am
These are some really great examples of how package design should be done. I wish we had more products in our shops that had packaging like this.
Make sure you see the last one in the list!
R Design Studio
Brad Surcey
Visualization of CI
Banana Juice
Equal Exchange
Coke Vintage Packaging
Old times, old times. We really miss packaging like this.
Pepsi [...]
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25 September, 2009 – 2:08 pm
Stuck for ideas on how to crank up the fun at your Windows 7 launch party?Well, luckily, Microsoft has produced a brilliant guide to throwing a bash in their honour.
Sometimes it hits me hard; how unfortunate I really am being a Mac user living in the UK…
Thanks to the guys at Creative Review for this [...]
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