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06 Feb, 2019

£20 for a logo? 6 good reasons why going cheap with design is a bad idea

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  • by peterpb

It’s a compelling question. You need a logo for your fledgeling business. Why should you pay hundreds of pounds for this when you can get something designed on the internet… Read More →

23 Jul, 2018

Are pictures more important than words?

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  • by peterpb

The famous saying goes ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’. The origins of this can be found in the early days of advertising at the turn of the last… Read More →

11 May, 2018

Does creativity come from nature or nurture?

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Is it possible to learn to be creative, or is great creativity a natural gift possessed by a lucky few which the rest of us can only admire? In recent… Read More →

05 Apr, 2018

Pen versus pixel.

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When I started out on the design industry everything was created by hand. We drew with pencils and used pens, rulers and compasses to create artwork suitable for mass reproduction.… Read More →

19 Jul, 2017

The Fonts I have known and loved (or hated).

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Knowledge of fonts used to be purely the preserve of designers and artists, but with the ubiquity of computers most people brush with font choice regularly. To the average person… Read More →

08 Feb, 2017

Some interesting facts about colour

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There are in fact two sets of primary colours, additive and subtractive. Additive primaries (Red, Green and Blue) are those obtained by emitted light. These three colours combine to produce… Read More →

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