design understood would like to wish everybody
a very Merry Christmas & a prosperous New Year!
The Stone Roses & Halloween Pumpkins
After a frantic few weeks in the music world with the likes of Noel Gallagher releasing his first solo album, only to be overshadowed by the astounding news that The Stone Roses are reforming for gigs in 2012. The ensuing mayhem of acquiring tickets for these gigs, of which I was successful and parties to boot, it seamed fitting to carve this years Halloween pumpkin in tribute to the mighty Roses, enjoy…
And now for our next trick, business cards!
Heres our fantastic new business cards!
We are like kids in a sweet shop, giddy as can be 
Our new cards have been designed to be touched, to be looked at and enjoyed. To acheive the look, take GF Smith colorplan pale grey board, mix in embossed dots and add a splash of black foil block for the lettering, not cheap! …but worth it!
Windows 8 Preview: Open Source, Apps, HTML5, Tablet Ready, Cross Platform and Linux?
A few weeks ago browsing YouTube I stumbled upon some previews of Windows 8 and I uncovered a surprisingly dramatic new direction. One quote sums it up: “We reimagined Windows“.
This was prior to Microsoft unveiling it at the BUILD conference on 15th September 2011. Here it was revealed that a large focus will be allocated to developing Metro Apps for Windows 8 (Metro UI is Microsoft’s ‘design language’ using principles, such as the typography, to approach the design of the user interface by consolidating groups of common tasks, to speed up usage and catch the eye. A refreshing change from icon based interfaces).
The focus on Apps and Metro UI clearly indicates Microsoft’s intention to make headway in the tablet and mobile computing market. But what I found out about the other features of Windows 8 really intrigued, how many of these features are speculative, rumours or truths will remain to be seen…. So whats the deal?
A designers life with Apple – goodbye Steve Jobs
Rather than explain what Steve Job’s has done throughout his reign at Apple, you can go on the internet and read all the tributes, I’d rather talk about how apple has affected my career.
When I was a kid there was no such thing as a computer, I climbed trees, rode my bike, drank from the tap and watched TV via a choice of 4 channels, like any kid in the 80′s.
Computers then started to slowly come in. My first experience was the old BBC, then ATARI and other computer games consoles but these were superficial products, fun products, nothing that showed me an insight into my future as a graphic designer.
My journey using Apple products began in a galaxy far far away (well early 90′s)…
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