Founded in 1998 by Virginie Fournier, Shanghai Trio combines traditional Chinese craftwork with a modern Western touch for its innovative products. The brand makes use of both refined and rough materials, from bamboo and organic cotton to modern plasticized cloth and yak down, to revive simple products inspired by everyday Chinese life. Shanghai Trio is also a workshop committed to...
With over 6 years experience working in Graphic Design, London based designer Jane Trustram is Design Director at Jotta, Co-Founder of London Design Festival’s graphic design graduate showcase Emerge and a visiting tutor at The Arts University College Bournemouth. We spoke to Jane this month to find out more about her career and design work. Notes on Design: Can...
Having only graduated in 2010, Graphic Designer Ludvig Bruneau Rossow is currently working in Norweigian design studio Uniform. In his spare time he runs his own freelance practice Bureau Bruneau and has recently landed a summer internship with Sagmeister Inc. in New York. With such an array of experience and an inspiring portfolio of both professional and self led...
Photo by Patrick Burgoyne, CRBlog. A Graphic Odyssey, the UK’s first retrospective exhibition to Dutch Graphic Designer Wim Crouwel, opened last night at London’s Design Museum. Designed by architects 6a and co-curator Tony Brook of Spin the show looks back over 6 decades of Crouwel’s prolific career, and his extensive contribution to Graphic Design. “Regarded as one of the...
UK based Graphic Designer, Donna Wearmouth left University with a First Class Honors degree in Visual Communication and an award from the prestigious International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD), and with such a well executed and beautiful body of work, it’s not difficult to see why. Straight after graduating Donna landed a job working as a Junior Graphic Designer...
Shanghai-based SGTH Designs is a new breed of design consultancy focusing on identity and brand design for services whose value is measured by the positive contributing change they create, support or defend. SGTH strongly believe in the power of design to “not just make things look pretty,” but to practice a more sustainable approach to communication design. We sat...
Adam Schokora and Sean Leow, NeochaEDGE co-founders NeochaEDGE is both a Shanghai-based creative agency and a bilingual web-magazine dedicated to celebrating Chinese creativity. As an agency, NeochaEDGE represents a wide range of upcoming Chinese creative talent (from various disciplines) under the EDGE Creative Collective. This is cleverly complimented by an web-magazine, which showcases the inspiring content from these young designers,...
London based designer Thomas Thwaites found out how to build a toaster… the hard way, by attempting to build one from scratch: mining ore for steel and deriving plastic from oil. A parable of our interconnected society, for designers and consumers alike. Another inspiring, informative and humorous talk from TED.
Published late in 2010, This is Service Design Thinking by Marc Stickdorn and Jakob Schneider is the very first comprehensive textbook on the emerging field of service design and innovation. As service design and design thinking continue to evolve as buzzwords for management and business consulting This is Service Design Thinking unveils the practical meaning behind these terms in...
Curated by Graham Bignell of New North Press and graphic designer Richard Ardagh, Reverting to Type was an exhibition that showcased the work of twenty contemporary letterpress practitioners from around the world. Open throughout December and January at London’s Standpoint Gallery, the exhibition illustrated how a centuries-old craft is being reinvented for modern day usage. This film was produced...
