Is it just me or are these two completely separate logos practically identical? Check out the combined City of Bath College music experience logo at the bottom right, they overlay far too well it’s almost as though someones started a franchise! If this is a freak coincidence it’s certainly the most blatant one I’ve ever seen.

City of Bath College logo designed by Dirty Design

British music experience logo designed by Thinkfarm

But which came first the chicken or the egg?

A brilliant animation entitled ‘Outside the box’ from Joseph Pelling. Oh how it made me chuckle, enjoy.

Via Dion Star

I made you look!* But now that you’re here why not take a look around.

Here’s one of the reasons I came up with that make me ever so slightly different. A good old business card and hand written note sent via the heroic royal mail (Letter beats email any day.)

Emily Gosden’s defamatory article for the Times Online has ruffled more than a few feathers in the design world, prompting this response and enlightening discussion from Design Assembly. A great response and one that probably took a lot longer to write than Gosden’s article.

Personally I find her article ill informed, poorly written and hypocritical relying heavily on mostly irrelevant figures seemingly  plucked from the air with no real breakdown of what exactly said costs covered. It’s funny that the same ‘average brained’ civil servants that could easily do the job of an experienced designer were probably the same ones that accepted these large design budgets?

Here’s some of the highlights.

“…yet one department admitted that it could produce logos in-house for £648….” & “…Last year it spent £14,000 on a new logo that, when viewed sideways, resembled a sexually aroused man.”

Clearly, you don’t get ’sideways sexually aroused man’ for just £648.

The Tory MP Greg Hands said: “Surely adding two digits doesn’t need to be outsourced at all. Civil servants can do this themselves. Modern graphic design packages surely allow anyone with an average brain to design something as good as, or better than, what we see in front of us here.”

Yes Greg Hands, surely any civil servant with an average brain can do all the jobs they currently outsource, equally well if not better, despite their complete lack of knowledge and training in those fields. In fact, the arrival of these above average brained ‘Super Civil Servants’ will surely bring about the demise of our industry (and just about every other one too) heralding the end of society as we know it.

I was asked by AKG Promotions to design a poster for an upcoming silent disco event, here’s what I came up with. I think we can all agree it’s extremely orange.

Check them out http://akgpromotions.com/ alternatively obey the poster and join them on facebook