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Should cheap logo designers be banned?
Posted in Design, Creative, Latest reporters' blogs June 30th, 2009 by admin
Type ‘online logo design’ in Google search and you will see countless logo design companies and freelance logo designers offering their services at different price rates. Under such circumstances, if you are a genuine buyer and in need of a logo, what should be your strategy in order to get the best possible logo for your business at the most appropriate price?
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(0)Picture this – a London 2012 mascot
Posted in Media, Marketing, Design, Creative, Branwell Johnson, Latest reporters' blogs October 24th, 2008 by Branwell Johnson
On your marks, get set, go – the race is on to help LOCOG devise the mascot for London 2012 Olympics.
Can this turkey be turned around?
Posted in Marketing, Design, Branwell Johnson, Latest reporters' blogs July 29th, 2008 by Branwell Johnson
One of the biggest turnaround branding jobs in the history of marketing is underway – no, not the effort to make Gordon Brown electable - the attempt to make Bernard Matthews “bootiful” again.
Design a bus for Boris
Posted in Design, Branwell Johnson, Latest reporters' blogs July 4th, 2008 by Branwell Johnson
Mayor of London Boris Johnson is asking people to design a new bus base don the Routemaster for the capital. Is he a few seats short of a top deck?
Silverjet flies the flag
Posted in Design, Branwell Johnson, Latest reporters' blogs November 13th, 2007 by Branwell Johnson
Things we approve of, number 964 (in an ongoing list) - Silverjet listening to staff feedback and introducing a stylised Union Jack on its tailfins.
A cottage industry boom
Posted in Design, Creative August 30th, 2007 by admin
Take one huge multinational agency with client service costs approaching 30 per cent, staffing and logistical costs taking a further 50 per cent chunk out of the pie and then still further fees as they hire in bespoke creatives and you can see that working from a home studio is quite obviously a good way to go…
Tags Design, Agency, Freelance, Creativity
New Panda packaging seems familiar….
Posted in Design, Oliver Milman, Latest reporters' blogs August 3rd, 2007 by Oliver Milman
Soft drinks brand Panda has rolled out a new packaging design in order to position itself as a ‘premium’ product.
Tags Ribena, Panda, Soft Drinks, Packaging, Design
Will the 2012 logo triumph in the long run?
Posted in Design, Creative, Oliver Milman June 6th, 2007 by Oliver Milman
If the organisers of the London 2012 Olympic Games live by the mantra of ‘There’s no such thing as bad publicity’, they will have been quietly pleased with the torrent of criticism hurled at its curiously-shaped new logo.
Tags London 2012, Olympics, Logo, Branding, Design, Creative, Wolff Olins
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