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Logo Design - Points to consider

Posted August 27th, 2008

Adrian Frutiger says

“The secret of beautiful form lies in its simplicity.
The best logo is the one that a child can copy in the sand with one finger”

and I couldn’t agree more, if possible a logo should be this simple. Read the rest of this post » » »

BTEC First for Science - ldentity / Logo Design

Posted August 22nd, 2008

Earlier this year we worked on the logo design for BTEC First for Science which is an educational scheme for teachers that has been set up for their Science BTEC National needs. As part of this service teachers and schools will be supplied with all the materials needed to run the Edexcel Science BTEC.

The logo needed to Read the rest of this post » » »

Coca-cola gets a brand re design - “less is more”

Posted August 21st, 2008

Coca-cola have had their brand re design by design agency Turner Duckworth, focusing on ‘ Read the rest of this post » » »

Artist interview 1 - Elisabeth Timpone

Posted August 19th, 2008

Dot Design has an an interest in all areas of the arts as well as graphic design so as often as possible (probably once a month) I’m going to be interviewing artists that interest me. I stumbled across Brooklyn-based artist Elisabeth Timpone whilst looking Read the rest of this post » » »

I’m A Scientist Event and Website Launch

Posted June 11th, 2008

I’m a Scientist, the event that gets young people and scientists talking launched this week.

Dot Design worked with Gallomanor to produce the identity design, website design, teacher work sheets design, debate cards and other items for this event. We will be posting more images of the design material we produced for this event in our portfolio Read the rest of this post » » »

Should I print my brochure Digitally or Lithographically?

Posted June 9th, 2008

One of the services we offer at Dot Design is the buying of print or print management as part of design projects. This can range from printing 100 flyers digitally to lithographically printing 50,000 festival programmes.

But to those individuals or companies who wish to source their own print Read the rest of this post » » »

New Penguin James Bond book cover designs

Posted June 2nd, 2008

Penguin have just re-issued all 14 of Ian Flemings James Bond books with newly designed covers to celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the birth of Ian Flemming. The artwork for the covers was painted by British born painter Michael Gillette. More of Michael Gillette’s work can be seen at his website.

He has painted each of the key Bond girls relating to each film in a very 60’s style with a limited colour palette, the typography has been Read the rest of this post » » »

Scribbles/Doodles/Illustrations, whatever you’d like to call them!

Posted May 30th, 2008

As you can tell from the post title I’m not sure what to call them but I basically produce pen illustrations, they aren’t of anything in particular, there is no planning or sketching its just drawn straight out. These drawings are produced over a period of time (when I get chance) and aren’t the product of one sitting. Read the rest of this post » » »

Greener by Design

Posted May 29th, 2008

I’m in the middle of writing a post about how to be more environmentally friendly when getting your brochure, stationery or other printed material produced, when I came across a site which suggests 50 ways to help the planet . I wanted to share it with you sooner rather than later, as I won’t be publishing the full printing green post until next week or so.

The site does have some design related suggestions but mainly its a list of ways in which we can all (as the website suggests) help the planet and be a little greener. Also worth taking a look at is the “playstation” tshirt design near the bottom of the site, which features a tongue in cheek comment on todays youth and possibly todays adults too.

So just a quick post today but hopefully a useful one. If you have any green tips you want to share please leave a comment below, it would be good to hear them.

Create and build your own font

Posted May 20th, 2008

I’ve used StumbleUpon for sometime now, its a great way of, well, stumbling upon art and design related sites you just wouldn’t usually have found.

Recently I came across Fontstruct a great little site that enables you to easily create typefaces/fonts out of grided shapes which it then creates in to usable TrueType fonts. The fonts that are created can be used in Mac or Windows applications. It also encourages people to Read the rest of this post » » »