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Creative Director at JP74

The Rather Difficult Font Game

A bit of fun for you fonts of… font knowledge.
The Rather Difficult Font Game
Post your scores in the comments!
For your info, I scored 26, John Flanagan managed 30, and Luigi Carnovale got 31… 

Release your inner sleeve designer

Taken shamelessly from Creative Review, my mate Dan msn’d me with this;
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/release-your-inner-sleeve-designer
The rules of the game are simple. Have a crack, and send us your work! Here’s mine…

Photo by *La Greca*

Photos from the Industry Awards night 30.01.08

Creative kickstart

Need motivation for a new brief? Got 5 minutes to kill? Or need to get in the mood as the day kicks off?
Every morning, I get a cup of tea and surf through a site that is solely about image book marking. It’s a mass collective of design and image conscious people who link and [...]

20 Horrible Habits of Clients

From YouTheDesigner.com
I’m sure we’ve all come across most of these, if not all, but it begs the question, how do you handle them?
Do you have any tips to help designers who are just finding their feet? Any words of advice when handling a potentially difficult situation with a client?
Or do you have any quotes or [...]

Hillman Curtis D&AD Lecture

Self taught, Hillman founded New York based digital design firm hillmancurtis, inc in 1998. After a successful 10 year music career Hillman decided to change course and bought himself an old Mac II and enrolled on a Photoshop course. Despite not having any formal training in digital graphics he has managed to utilise his artistic [...]

GroupHub meets Ben Casey

As the founder and driving force behind The Chase, Ben Casey is one of the most respected creative practitioners in the UK. As Professor of Visual Communication at UCLAN and a former chairman of D&AD Director’s Club’s Education Group, he also one of the most revered authorities on design education.
Most importantly, as a Prestonian who [...]

GroupHub comes to East Lancs

GroupHub have been organising extremely successful gatherings in Preston creating a series of informal bimonthly gatherings to explore creativity, inspiration and the alchemy involved in making a living from creative thought.
GroupHub have now teamed up with CreativityWorks to provide the first event in East Lancashire.
For this event we have managed to bring in an extremely [...]

Richard Scholey / Elmwood and GroupHub Meets D&AD

Richard Scholey / Elmwood //
Creative Director at the ‘most effective design consultancy in the world’, on the balance between looking good and working hard.
GroupHub Meets D&AD //
An introduction to the recently launched D&AD Northwest and the first flush of a beautiful new friendship. What’s it all about and what’s in it for you?

David Bell & Robert Hempsall

We have David Bell, ex-Wieden and Kennedy and current Creative Director at Poulters talking frankly about the north/south creative divide.
And Robert Hempsall of Flowers and Chocolate, information designer reminding us what graphic design is really all about: communication, communication, communication.
Specialist information designer on the difference between creative communication and communicating creatively.