Old England, with its quintessential facade and signage, will close its doors definitively on 31 March 2012 after 144 years of purveying a certain English life style to Parisians and homesick expats. Listed as a Monument Historique the facades will be conserved.
Brand Bangkok work from the workshop. A contemporary typeface based on organic banana leaf packaging, BKK using actualised Thai patterns and Bangkok the city where everyone fits in.
Suvarnabhumi Airport opened in 2006 is the world's 4th largest airport building, covering half a million square meters and catering to 48 million passengers. I counted 50 passport control desks on arrival. Returning to CDG Paris at 6.00am hundreds of passengers waited at 7 open passport control desks and two mal-functioning biometric control gates. The Air France Bus ticket distributors were all 'en panne'... Bienvenu en Europe.
Paul has over twenty years experience as a creative director, consultant and designer working with some of the world's leading branding and design agencies and with many of the top global brands.
His professional track record includes: Pentagram London, Design Solution Paris, Interbrand New York, Desgrippes Gobe Tokyo and Hong Kong, Dragon Rouge Paris.
Paul has won numerous design awards and his work is extensively published in magazines, books and on the web. He won a Gold Award in the Pentawards - international packaging design awards and has been exhibited at the Cannes Lions. His work is featured in Taschen’s Package Design Book.
Paul directs the Visual Communications program at the Ecole Bleue School of Design in Paris, lectures at design schools and leads professional continuing education workshops for the design industry.
He writes on branding design issues, is an international correspondent for Brand New. His design blog ‘Design Thinking’ has received over a hundred thousand visits.