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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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    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

    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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    Peter Saville at Creative Social

    October 7, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    Yep, saw the Black Prince talk tonight (haha). He was well entertaining. And wasn’t half the ego I expected. The most interesting point he made was about working with the [...]

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    design, London
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    Incredible skeletal windows at Harvey Nicks

    September 25, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    Heading off to work from a talk at the IPA this morning, and wandered past these immaculately constructed coathanger carcassses running through the front windows of Harvey Nichols. My photos [...]

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    general brilliantness, London

    Five Principles to Design By – by Joshua Porter

    September 5, 2008by laurajb 1 Comment

    Just finished a workshop yesterday by this guy and was really inspired – he gave us a great deal of really useful skills See his whole, great blog, and this [...]

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    design, general brilliantness, interweb, thought pieces, UX/IA

    Notes from Designing for Social Media: Part 1

    September 4, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    This guy took the workshop I did today. These are Josh Porter’s (bokardo) favorite presentations on slideshare – great reference material for anyone wanting to make something useful (delightful + [...]

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    design, interweb, places i've been, theory, UX/IA
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    Football 24-7 goes live for NGM

    August 19, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    Just finished this site for NGM – turning a complicated offering (and old site) into something hopefully much more sticky!

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