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22 Banksy Exhibition Photos

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:50:53 +0000

I haven’t been to the Banksy exhibition - don’t love his work that much to be honest - but I know that lots of my readers probably do … therefore because I have friends in high places (my artistic sister…ahem…), I bring you 22 Banksy Bristol Exhibition photos. I don’t understand a good two thirds of [...]

Still Tempted To Do Spec Work?

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:14:33 +0000

‘Spec Work’ is an abbreviation for Speculative Work … this is design work that is created specifically for a client (often in the form of a competition against other designers) on which you speculate (read gamble) as to whether or not your design will ‘win’. Spec work isn’t just for designers, although it’s rife in this [...]

Mini: 50yrs of the Quintessential British Brand

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:49:37 +0000

Source: Graphic Evolution The quintessential British brand Mini Cooper is 50 years old this week. What do you think of when you think of ‘Mini’, what is their brand? Off the top of my head I’d say: Economical, fun, British.

Boutique Design Project

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:33:48 +0000

I’m feeling very pleased with myself today, having designed something that I really really like. It’s a second logo design concept for start-up business Boutique Venues. It’s one of those situations where I ‘really’ want them to choose this concept simply because I want to work with it on all the literature design and website design.

Eco Friendly Banner Stand

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:53:27 +0000

I seem to be having a bit of an eco theme this last month … turning all eco-warrior I am. I just received from email spam from Signs Express about their new Eco-Friendly Exhibition Banners, it’s the first time I even thought about the fact that you could get eco-friendly banners over and above ’standard banners’ [...]

An Eco-Friendly Business

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:35:27 +0000

The environment is something I do my best to consider in everything I do, I’m not perfect by a long shot, but I do try. How can your business be more green?

Mermaids As A Creative Subject

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:33:28 +0000

Whilst on holiday in Malta in Spring I discovered in the villa these beautifully illustrated table place mats.

Your Brand Story

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Sun, 24 May 2009 18:58:01 +0000

Do you have an interesting story behind the start and growth of your business? Many of us probably do and yet so few choose to tell this story as part of a brand image strategy. I’ve just visited the wonderful Abel & Cole website for the first time, and whilst I found the website experience itself [...]

Where Is Tara & The Weather Pops

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:59:30 +0000

Respected blogger Tara Roskell seems to have disappeared from Cyberspace for 7 months now. Born from 15 years of graphic design experience, her once extremely high profile Graphic Design Blog featured it’s last blog in October 2008, not a word since as far as I can tell, and Tara’s last personal blog was dated May [...]

Oh O … retro

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:35:16 +0000

Oh O…she’s banging on about retro things again! Love this beauty products packaging showcased at Notorious Kitsch. Well worth a look round their shop by the way, lots of cool original goodies to buy. Also it’s the strangest coincidence that I’ve just happened upon two visually interesting things with ‘kitsch’ in the name … I’m not [...]