The news section has been a bit quiet recently, partly due to real life over the summer. However here’s a sneak preview of a lovely branding project I’ve been working on for a new events agency. It will of course be rolled out across all the usual traditional, digital and social channels, and the full
SEO Success Search Engine Land have produced this nifty infographic, The Periodic Table of SEO Success Factors, as guide to help you get your site noticed. Very informative as a checklist of stuff you can do to improve your rankings. Click on the image to see it full-sized. The link to the original on their
“Fifty Bucks an album…they loved it, thought it was modern, they thought it went with the music… one or two colors to work with at that time and some outrageous graphics!” Between 1955 & 1967, Reid Miles was the designer at jazz label Blue Note Records. Known as a label that let their
7 Steps for an Optimised Content Marketing Strategy – an excellent content marketing infographic by Intergage.
Manager Magazine for the Institute of Administrative Management (IAM) is a project I worked on at Publicom since pitching for its relaunch, as art director, designer, artworker, retoucher, illustrator – you name it, on the creative side. Thanks to lovely, receptive clients at IAM and excellent editorial collaborators, in particular Richard Brent, it’s been a
You wait ages, and then two come along together. Design Insider, for the BCFA (British Contract Furnishing Association) and IDA (Interior Design Association), art directed & designed by Jason Regan while at Agency Publicom, has been entered into the Institute of Internal Communication‘s 2013 awards in the categories of Best Membership Publication and Best Relaunched
More of an outdoor flavour to this post, in contrast to Part 1 which featured a lot of artificially lit interiors. There’s no particular theme, although with a Road movie and two Westerns, there are three examples of non-US directors tackling some classic American movie staples, plus three mythic characters who have had multiple films
In the heady jet-set media world of contract publishing, there’s rarely the opportunity to commission original photography or illustration. Consequently, there’s a heavy reliance on stock imagery which can very quickly look a bit samey. I always like to go the extra mile, particularly on cover images, and really sell the story with something more
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are so many incredible images associated with this film it’s difficult to know where to start or stop, but the ones that generally stick in my mind are those that highlight the amazing set design, and the lovely update of the 60′s air travel experience to space. One
Syd Mead designed the world I want to live in – a beautiful retro-futuristic mash up of Mid 20th Century Modern and Jetsons-style sci-fi. He is one of those talents that come only once or twice in a generation. The best of his images blend a 60′s creative optimism, with his industrial designer’s understanding of
