Monthly Archives: January 2009

Be careful out there folks! What Twitter giveth, it can also taketh away. A recent story broke in the US where a PR executive was hired to give a presentation on social media to 150 employees at FedEx in Memphis, Tennessee. On arrival, it turns out that this guy was considerably underwhelmed with the city [...]

Design Week announced today that The Times are set to unveil a new design for their Saturday edition. The new look will get its first outing tomorrow. This in itself is nothing out of the ordinary, in fact its great to see they still place a value on the design of the paper, but it [...]

I took a call the day before yesterday from a man called John who told me he worked for Xerox, as we have a Xerox printer in our studio he had my attention.  He went on to tell me that Xerox wanted to replace all the units in the field of our particular model – [...]

The coated paper manufacturing sector has seen some significant re-structuring.  It also continues to see costs rise coupled with a deterioration in the UK exchange rate which makes it unattractive for suppliers to export their products to the UK.  Those factors are to be passed on to the end-user.  Coated paper prices are therefore expected [...]

Christmas is traditionally a very sociable time of year – and never more so than 2008 according to Hitwise, because millions of us were being very sociable indeed – on-line that is. So now that the tinsel and turkey sarnies are nothing more than a rapidly fading memory, it’s probably a good time to look [...]

Exchange and Mart are to print their last magazine in February 2009.  The success of their website which has seen a 21% year-on-year growth makes it a no-brainer for the brand.

Despite numerous price increases over the last year, paper is actually 20% cheaper than it was 6 years ago.  This is according to the NAPM which I should add has caused a bit of a stir amongst paper buyers, primarily because in the current climate it really doesn’t feel like it’s cheaper.  Increasingly I find [...]

This new advert from Audi promoting the new streamlined Q5 is very clever and its hard to argue against the fact that its visually engaging. So engaging that, and this may just be the designer in me, I struggle to accept the fact that there was enough cardboard from the original box to create the [...]