by Suzanne | Jul 14, 2015 | Graphics, Typography, Visual communication, Worth watching
Until watching this film I hadn’t really thought of Helvetica as a Marmite font (i.e. you either love it or hate it) I thought was a reaction was solely reserved for Comic Sans*. I stand corrected. The film show how passionate designers, especially font...
by Suzanne | Mar 26, 2015 | Visual communication, Worth watching
This documentary is a really interesting insight into the multi-faceted lives and careers of Charles and Ray Eames. The film states that they were some of the first multi-disciplined creatives to be regarded as ‘visual communicators’. Over the course of...
by Suzanne | Mar 24, 2015 | Photography, Visual communication
The winner of the DECC #backclimateaction image competition was announced today. It was a stunning and haunting black and white photograph taken in the Horn of Africa by James Alexander. Its part of his upcoming exhibition about climate change in London. I am very...
by Suzanne | Mar 9, 2015 | Photography, Visual communication
After getting back from Brussels I put an entry into the DECC #BackClimateAction image competition. Rather than photographs of melting ice caps and polar bears, which are often the images that first spring to mind, the 6 judges wanted to see images that illustrate how...
by Suzanne | Nov 19, 2014 | Graphics, Thoughts and ideas, Visual communication
Somehow I’d managed to avoid hearing of Black Friday until last year when the pandemonium hit the news headlines. I was saddened to read that this year even more UK retailers are taking part in this farce. The list of participants include companies that claim to...
by Suzanne | Oct 15, 2014 | Photography, Visual communication
I found out this morning 2 of my images have been short listed, from 800 entries, to be part of the 48 finalists in the European Environmental Agency (EEA) photo competition Environment & Me. The public vote is now open, and the rules are simple. Choose up to five...
