Following on from the success of winning a place in “Market Smart” by Harper Collins publishers in 2008, I’ve just had confirmation that my design for Hello Beads (I also named the company), will feature in “Logolicious”.

Logolicious describes itself as “A fantastic pocket-size guide to logo design, Logolicious is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in logo design, branding, or merchandising.”

*CHINK*

As you can see, the blog has gone completely belly up.

I have an excellent web development firm on the case for me for reinstalling content. Lets pray 3yrs worth of blogs have not just gone down the pan!

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I’ve been made aware of an outstanding competition with a plethora of drool-worthy prizes for designers.

The best thing about it? Entry is super super easy (simply twitter, blog, or link from your website the competition page to enter). So as you can see, this takes about a nano second, I recommend you enter right now!

FURTHER INFO >>

This is a little awareness/news piece for designers with regards to copyright theft.

Rachel Taylor, who is an exceptionally talented artist, recently found her pattern design work copied line for line by a Shutterstock artist. See below how badly she was ripped off…

Original Work

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Last week I attended Found! An end of year student art gallery event, out which I should be able to milk not one, but THREE blogs! Yep, it was pretty interesting and I don’t want to ram all my waffling and images into one blog

I was invited to the private preview event (sniff, because I’m special I am) by my work experience student from last summer Sally and so in this blog I’m going to feature her wonderful gallery display and more. Sally’s was one of the best displays at the event, and hands down the most ‘commercial’ in terms of skills that can be translated in the real world into cold hard cash that we all need to you know, eat and stuff.

Anyway, less of my jibber jabber and on with the images:
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A few days ago I was harping on about receiving really really boring postal and emailed CVs from students wanting either job or work experience placements.

Expressing wonderment as to why on earth I was receiving sheets of white paper with black writing all over them; no attempt at ‘design flair’ in their application/CV and a complete absence of portfolio to show me either.

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Got lots to say when passing on your details? Why squeeze your message onto just a double sided flat business card when you can so easily have folded?

There are pro’s and con’s for this option of course, but if you feel like you just need to say a lot its a way of achieving that without ruining the aesthetics of your business card with squashed unreadable text rammed edge to edge.
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Looking for professional development in your design career?

Bournemouth University are launching a range of innovative short courses aimed at media professionals already in employment, or with recent professional experience.
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Is graphic design just all about making things look pretty? Does anyone care if it looks pretty? Does it directly affect business success?

Of course design directly affects business success …… but how to prove it?
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I like pink as a colour…. I especially like it with brown, what interesting pink logo designs can I dig up?

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