pressing on

Spent a bit of time down at Glasgow Press this week to see a new project on the press. We’ve been working with acclaimed photographer Kieran Dodds to produce the first in a series of A5 postcard sets called ‘little shots’. These shots are of the boxes in production, which have been letterpressed on two shades of Materica from Fedrigoni. We needed to work closely with Dan and Larry to make sure the colour had just the right amount of contrast and they’ve turned out a treat…

Also noticed a few familiar names on the job board!

Why throw out yoghurt pots when you can use them to store your Pantone® colours?

The Computer Made Me Do It

At O Street play and experimentation are a key part of our creative process (read about our Last.fm slip-mat or our Roadliners project) As designers we’re instinctively taught to control outcomes. For me, experimentation is about breaking some of those...

Love is all O-round.

This month we had two very good reasons to clear the decks and order too much pizza. Neil O’s retirement and David’s 50th lap around the sun. Two milestones. Both worth marking properly. The date landed just after Valentine’s Day,...

Change Starts Small

Beth and the very lovely folk at INTL invited me to sit on a panel last night. The topic: “What the F**K is going on in the Scottish Design Industry?” A bit of a foreboding question, eh? And one which...

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