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Game Not Over For These New Royal Mail Stamps
Game Not Over For These New Royal Mail Stamps The screen of death with the words “GAME OVER” won’t be featured in this new set of stamps celebrating retro video games of the past. The Royal Mail series features games you will recognise if you…
Vogue Italia Draws The Line
Vogue Italia Draws A New Start To The New Year It’s a fashion magazine and like any you would see at the supermarket checkout they all scream for your attention. You know, the photoshopped-to-perfection front cover, glossy pages with sexy, slinky models displaying the latest…
Dracula BBC Billboards Are Big, Bad and Creepy
Dracula BBC Billboards Are Big, Bad and Creepy The television series “Dracula” pushes the envelope from Bram Stoker’s gothic novel. As a result, it also inspired the marketing team at BBC Creative to step out of the box and take a stab at developing a…
Canadian Ad Agency Puts The White In A Winter Wunder-Land
Canadian Ad Agency Puts The White In A Winter Wunder-Land There’s one thing Canadians know about Christmastime – it typically involves a fair amount of snow and advertising. But for a pair of partners in a small ad agency based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, ‘tis…
One of the world’s best loved logos. It’s magical.
Disney Logo Walt Disney, the man behind the logo. Not. Less is more when it comes to memorable brandmarks. Think Nike for instance – a simple swoosh that is instantly recognisable across the globe. But of course the Nike logo never began life like that….
Creative Insight, Film, Typography
Wood Type Letterpress Is Back. No Joke.
Joker. A movie with a simply beautiful beat-up logo. Wood type letterpress is back. No joke. A book can’t be judged by its cover, just in the same way that a movie can’t be judged by its logo. Or can it? Some of the best…
When Pink Floyd Sang A Rainbow
Be enlightened by the Dark Side of the Moon album cover For those of you who like the Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon marked the peak of their musical success. Rolling Stone, among many others, rated it their best album ever – and most…
The Top Banana Of Album Covers
The Banana That’s Still Ripe After 50 Years. The Velvet Underground And Nico Album Cover It’s that album cover with the banana on it. If you like music it’s practically a given you’ll know what I’m referring too. After all (ok, debatable), it’s the most…
Hello Abbey Road. Goodbye Beatles.
The Beatles Most Celebrated Album Celebrates 50 Years Abbey Road Album Cover They made it the world’s most famous zebra crossing. And one of the most famous sites in London. I am, of course, referring to the Abbey Road album cover, one of the most…
The Brilliant Light of An Iconic Shell
The Sunny Rise of Light & Energy Like the climbing sun it resembles, the shell logo casts a long light down the back corridor of fossil fuel commerce during the last eleven decades. The Shell logo emerges as a primary-coloured omnipresent icon out of the…
The Meatball, The Worm & The Birth of The NASA Logo
NASA Logo One Small Step Into The Space Frontier Sometimes brands have to jump back and forth before settling on the visual aesthetic that truly reflects their identity. For the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1992, wasn’t too late to return to a beloved…
It All Began With Paul Rand
Master of design. Mastermind of the corporate logo. Logos come and go. If lucky, some hang around for a number of years, while others are continually updated and evolve with the times. Some are scrapped and revamped in the hope they’ll perform better next time…