Friday Favourites Christmas Special

This is our final Friday Favourites of 2012 before we go off and eat, drink and be merry for a couple of weeks. So here’s a (sort of) Christmas themed Friday Favourites to finish off the year. Thanks to everyone for following, sharing and commenting on Friday Favourites throughout the year, and wishing you all the best for the festive season!

Friday Favourites

An environmentally-friendly shooting range, crayon sculpture portraits of the Great Depression, the Yayoi Kusama Louis Vuitton pop-up store in Singapore and the artisanal craft of salmon smoking. Check them out on this week’s Friday Favourites.

Friday Favourites

Book igloos, human sounding electric scooters, rubbish rainbows and lickable lifts, all in our Friday Favourites.

Friday Favourites

Tipsy glasses, illustrated leaves, enlightened souls and more on our Friday Favourites.

A love story in milk

This is a lovely short film created by Catsnake for a Friends of the Earth campaign. It’s sweet and cute but with a cruel twist at the end!

KFC wins Gold at the Design Effectiveness Awards

There are a few sore heads around today after a very successful evening at the DBA Design Effectiveness Awards last night. Our Communications team were delighted by the Gold Award in the Point of Sale category, for our KFC menu boards.

Sensorial Innovation article in New Design

For the New Year issue of New Design magazine themed around Future & Innovation, our 3D Design Director, Laurent Robin-Prevallee discussed how companies can use the senses to stand out from the opposition.

Green On My Sleeve

Did you cycle to work this morning? Sorted out your recycling last night? As brand designers sustainability is another box on the wish list we need – and want – to tick off. The interesting thing is that the whole subject has shifted from I-think-green-and-I-don’t-care-about-status to Green-is-the-new-status. The Stylist magazine is reporting that researcher now say [...]

Posted on Jun 23rd 2010 by · Permalink · One Comment
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One tent too many

It’s festival season. It’s camping season. In a world where everything can be bought, the search seems to be for the unique and the intimate, the marginal and the magical. Come on, let’s go camping!

Posted on Jun 21st 2010 by · Permalink · One Comment
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10:10 Downing Street

Hats off to 10:10 for their latest and possibly highest profile signing to-date to the 10:10 campaign… Not just 10 Downing Street (who had already signed up), but the whole of central UK government making a pledge to reduce their carbon emissions by 10% in 2010.  From their own press release, ” A 10% cut [...]