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Creative Review Annual judging – the crew is announced

October 13, 2010by laurajb Leave a comment

The CR Annual is open for submissions from today, and I’m lucky enough to be a judge on a considerably smaller panel than I thought! Liking the fact that the […]

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advertising, campaign, design, LBi, my press life
Honey, I forgot the holding copy...

How many times do I have to say, no Lorem Ipsum!

October 11, 2010by laurajb Leave a comment

We often have tho put our foot down at LBi about sending work out in beta form, with holding text (its not colouring in, guys!) so I thought it was […]

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craft, design

Doritos Japan – building a believable brand ;-?

March 3, 2009by laurajb 1 Comment

This spicy pack design from Doritos in Japan (courtesy of my good friend John-Patrick) is so wrong, and yet so right… Not sure what it says about them as a […]

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design, general brilliantness
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D&AD Student competition and awards identity

February 18, 2009by laurajb Leave a comment

I HEART D&AD, and I love the Student Awards, so I am always excited by what they’re up to. Launched this week by Pentagram, the new look for the D&AD […]

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design
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Museum of hidden web goodness

January 13, 2009by laurajb Leave a comment

There’s a real groundswell of love for loaders at the moment – what with the Creative Circle Honours 2009 having a special one-year-only award category, and a build-up of online […]

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craft, design, general brilliantness, interweb
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Glug! London launches its Xmas exhibition with a bang!

December 18, 2008by laurajb 1 Comment

The Glug! London event last night was brilliant. Even better, Paul Rayment (wonderful glue illustrator) won with his neon video: more about “All I Want For Christmas Is … on […]

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art, design, general brilliantness, glue, London, mates, my press life
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All I want for Xmas, Glug! London style

December 17, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

“More Notworking than Networking”, Glug! is a brilliant organisation set up by old glue compatriot Nick Clemant (he of the inexhaustable font collection). I helped judge the inaugral Xmas competition, […]

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design, general brilliantness, glue, my press life

Getty Images launch nifty new widget

December 11, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

Following on from Moodstream (by our favourite crew on the other side of the Atlantic, Barbarian), 27 letters is a visual reference of the most talked about, used and referenced […]

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design, ideas and inventions, interweb
Emma and Jo - two of the She Says crew

Our Inaugral She Says Golden Stiletto Awards

November 22, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

Thanks to Getty Images for a great night – in excess of 200 women at the event, and some incredibly high-quality pieces of work entered for judging. Yasmin (Dare) has […]

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advertising, design, general brilliantness, my press life, She Says

My D&AD talk went online today

November 18, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

more about “D&AD“, posted with vodpod

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design, great advertising, my press life

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