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Dog’s Bollocks Student Awards 2012: Call for Entries

Calling all students! It’s that time of year again where we invite you to enter our Dog’s Bollocks Awards and win a placement in our London studio. Check out the brief here and hear how two winners went on to get jobs as Junior Designers.

Branding for a brighter future

The Jasmine Revolution: the Arab Spring: evocative names conjuring contrasting visions of war and destruction, peace and celebration. Over the past 10 months we’ve watched North African and Middle Eastern nations play out their history in real-time. How should companies emerging from this period of rapid political change go about building competitive brands, and essentially building a brighter future?

NASA brand guidelines 1978

Rather fittingly, on the week of the last Shuttle Atlantis mission I came across the NASA guideline documents on the Aiga archives.

Announcing the winners of our Student Awards

Thanks to everyone that entered our Student Awards – aka The Dog’s Bollocks Awards – this year. We received over 70 entries by designers from universities up and down the UK, plus some internationally which added an interesting global dimension to proceedings.

A week to go for final Student Competition entries

The deadline for our Student Competition has been extended slightly to Monday 23 May, so if you still want to enter, you have just over a week to send us your work. The brief in brief: Reinterpret a Category Design projects sometimes follow established category norms, but often the best work breaks these rules. ‘Breakthrough’ [...]

Previous entries for our DB Student Awards

We are now two months in to the DB Student Awards competition, and we’ve have been talking to both students and colleges from around the world, with some great feedback about the brief. Students and colleges currently participating in the 2011 awards are: Brunel University Central St Martins College of Art & Design Donghua University, [...]

Posters out for the DB Student Awards

We have just posted the DB Student Awards briefing packs to our  to participating colleges, which contain these fantastic silk-screen posters printed by Loren Fillis from Loligo. We have some spare posters waiting to be sent out, please email us dbawards11@designbridge.com if you would like one! Please note the deadline has been extended to 21st May [...]

London studio Christmas Desk Decoration competition

The annual Christmas Desk Decoration competition has just taken place in our London studio. An amazing amount of effort has gone in to each table this year which made judging very difficult (I should have plied Viv with more Gluwein…). Congratulations to the Realisation team for their winning design of a Ski Slope! Here are [...]

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DB Student Awards 2011: Call for Entries

Here at Design Bridge we started our own internal awards way back in the 90’s as a bit of fun called ‘The Dog’s B*llocks’. As the group blossomed with offices in Amsterdam and Singapore it was time to take the awards more seriously, to judge the quality of the work and to create a benchmark, [...]