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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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  • 2008: One Show Interactive
  • 2008: The FWA Awards
  • 2009 judging: Cut & Paste
  • 2009: D&AD Online Advertising and Black Pencil
  • 2009: my talk in Estonia
  • 2010/2012: Judged Creative Showcase Australia
  • 2010: Judged BIMAs
  • 2010: Judged D&AD Student Awards
  • 2011: Speaking at Adobe MAX
  • 2012-2014: I'm a trustee of D&AD
  • 2012: Art Directors' Club of Europe Digital Jury
  • 2012: D&AD Integrated Jury
  • 2012: One Show Interactive
  • book: Best Piece of Advice Ever
  • book: Digital Advertising (Past, Present and Future)
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  • I work at Dare
  • I’m a member of Creative Social
  • I’m a founder of SheSays
  • recently judged: International Festival of Media Awards
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