Clients and Designers

2010/01 Michael Bierut from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.
If you're a designer, or even someone who may use the services of a designer in the near future, this is essential viewing. Designer/client relationships are a subject that gets talked about a lot—unfortunately, mainly negatively by designers—but Michael Bierut talks in an easy, down-to-earth way about the best and worst ways clients interact with designers and vice versa. Amazingly informative.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

A recently-found quote questioning how individuals may or may not perceive beauty. As a designer, this got me thinking about the necessary balance of subjective and objective decisions in producing something hopefully pleasing to the eye.
I had this photo I'd taken in Norway and I thought they'd go well together as, for me there's something rather beautiful about it.
What are your thoughts, beauty or nay?

Teddy Bear Skeletons

I saw recently these small sculptural pieces online by Stephanie Metz and I find them fascinating. There's something about anthropamorphising a bear into a teddy and then exploring its anatomy in this very tactile way that blows my mind. Freakish and cute all rolled into one.

Barrio North Christmas

Two designs for the forthcoming festive period over at Barrio North in Islington N1.

Peanut Butter Wolf

Poster designed for Stonesthrow head honcho Peanut Butter Wolf. He decided on the name because a girlfriends younger brother feared the 'peanut butter wolf monster' more than death itself.