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Observations from dan day, a designer*

Greenpeace design awards now open

The awards, hosted by Greenpeace Australia Pacific in conjunction with UniLife Inc. and the University of South Australia, were created to help raise awareness of environmental issues through innovation and creativity. Open to entrants worldwide until June 15, 2009, the brief is to design a poster that delivers the message “Be a Part of the [...]

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Calling all young designers!

Young Guns 7 Launch 16th March, 2009 Young Guns 7 call for entries and launch, Thursday, 19th March 2009 ADC Gallery, NYC ADC Young Guns is a global, cross-disciplinary competition that identifies today’s vanguard of young creative professionals. Entrants must be 30 years of age or younger and have been working professionally for at least 2 [...]

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Good ol’ apple

A few weeks ago we wrote about the Brandjunkie awards, well the global results are in, from the most controversial brands to the most enticing package designs – highlighted by the thoughts, insights and opinions of all those who participated in the survey. Be sure to check the results here: www.brandchannel.com

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we welcome Asics…

Asics have been given the opportunity to develop a new street wear T-shirt range and have asked us to design the first range, very exciting and we can’t wait to start wearing them out in the big wide world! Thanks guys.

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Google voice almost here…

Google Voice, what the hell is that you say? In one of Google’s rather low-key acquisitions, they purchased a phone start-up called GrandCentral (founded in 2006) for about $50 million in cash mid 2007, GrandCentral offered a seriously valuable product; “one phone number for all your phones, for life“. Can you imagine how many contacts [...]

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Brilliant design > sliding house

Known as the Sliding House, this unique piece of architectural lateral thinking was designed by London-based practice de Rijke Marsh Morgan. The brief was for a self-build house where the client could grow food, entertain, enjoy the landscape and basically retire in peace. The outcome was three buildings arranged along a longitudinal axis, with a [...]

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