Typographic Shakespeare stamps

Shakespeare stamp collection by agency The Chase, London, for UK Royal Mail. Featuring typographic quotations from the Bard.

Tallest timber frame building in the world planned for London

PLP Architecture & Cambridge University propose a 300m timber frame tower for London. 80 storey high, it would be the tallest timber structure in the world.
http://www.dezeen.com/2016/04/08/plp-architecture-cambridge-university-london-first-wooden-skyscraper-barbican/

Bordeaux Cité du Vin - June 2016

 The Cité du Vin is due to open June 2016. Design bu Agence XTU (Paris) & Casson Mann Ltd (UK). €81 million design & build budget.

Paul Vickers Design on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/paul_vickers_design/

Flag colours & graphics

Fascinating study of the worlds national flag colours, graphics and design by agency Ferdio.
More here: http://logonews.fr/2016/04/01/date-visualisation-des-drapeaux-nationaux/#more-12668

Celio* on a diet

Overweight and fat is out, slim and healthy is in with the new logotype for French clothing brand celio*. Rolled out this month. Designer unknown for the moment. Looses some of its force of course.

Herzog & de Meuron Bordeaux stadium

Herzog & de Meuron Bordeaux stadium open.

Jean-Paul Viguier to build tallest timber towers in Bordeaux

Jean-Paul Viguier to build world's tallest timber framed towers in Bordeaux.
Photo Dezeeen

Lascaux 4 by Snohetta

Down the road from us, opening December 2016.

Paul Vickers Design on Instagram

Rue de Charonne t-shirt from Whistles

Feather quill logos...!

Think press, media and news information today and you think dynamic moving messages, interactive and digital. I'm always surprised how newsagent stores in France are still signed by medieval calligraphers feather quills. Explanation: Egyptian symbol of Ma'at - goddess of truth, justice & order. Later used as a Christian symbol of virtues. Maybe time for an update in the 21st century?
Times Square screen, biggest in the world, as long as a football field, 8 storeys high, 24 millions LED's.
Photo Getty Images

Apples for apples...

New Franprix logotype by Bastien Figuié and Les Bons Faiseurs, looks very Apple... but a good improvement on the chaotic brand updates that have been all over the place in recent years. A bit Monop' too.

CrossRail becomes Elizabeth Line. Logo & colours

The new CrossRail line that will run under London from east to west has been named the Elizabeth Line, with a purple colour scheme in keeping with the Queens wardrobe. Opening 2018.

OMGB campaign

Oh My Great Britain campaign trailer

End of the circumflex?

The Academie Française and the Ministry of Education propose to abolish, some not all, of the accents in French words. A futile and irrelevant exercise that creates confusion and destroys cultural and linguistic heritage. Certainly typographers and designers would miss these interesting characters and accents.

Some of our recent work & projects on Pinterest

UK creative business and design now earns a staggering £9.6 million per hour!

2015 design and creative business figures from the UK government: £84.1 billion per year in revenue or a staggering £9.6 million per hour earned. This is 8.9% growth on 2014 revenue figures.
The UK remains Europe's No. 1 design economy and the world's No. 2 design economy. Yes!
We have updated our campaign and poster designs to reflect the UK's 2015's earnings.

Road safety poster

Poster for road safety and mobile phone use that cleverly uses typography and layout to get the message across.

Our Carrefour Camembert packaging design

Our Camembert packaging for Carrefour is now a collectors piece. Original packaging for sale on eBay.
Designed with Design Solution.

British & French automobile brands

A line up of top British & French automobile brands. From Aston Martin & Bentley to MG & Mini, some really great brands & cars from the UK.

Birmingham New Street station renovation

Birmingham New Street station has just opened after a £750 million renovation by AZPML architecture. For when the renovation of 'third world' Austerlitz station Paris, that I use every week?
Austerlitz top, Birmingham bottom.
Photos Dezeen. 
AZPML's Birmingham New Street Station renovation revealed in new images

Accor Hotels headquarters signage competition won by Ecole Bleue team

My class of 3rd year students at the Ecole Bleue have participated in the design competition to create the internal building signage for the Accor Hotels headquarters, a 23 floor tower, Tour Sequana, which will be home for 1 500 people. Three teams were shortlisted and the competition finally won by Maud, Marie & Mareva. Congratulations. Maud is currently realising the project on internship at Accor.

Bowie 10.01.16

Bowie: The Next Day / The Last day

Not only spelt wrong but terrible typography & design of Charlie Hebdo memorial

As if spelling Wolinski's name on the memorial plaque for Charlie Hebdo was not bad enough, the typeface, typographic design, layout and overall design of the monument, even down to choice of the stone colour and fixings could not be worse. This is a very sad, retro style (1940's?) monument that shows no respect to these men of letters, to who the word and its graphic expression were the most important things in their lives.

Hope, Peace & Love 2016 - written large

Our Hope, Peace Love 2016 sketchbooks

Hope, Peace & Love 2016 on Designspiration

Hope, Peace & Love for 2016 on Notcot and as repeat pattern

Hope Peace & Love for 2016

Brandalism for Cop21

600 advertising sites pirated with environmental campaign posters.

Bojo Beaujolais Nouveau 2015

Fun, typographic smiley face for Nicholas Bojo Beaujolais Nouveau 2015. Enjoy!

Hope Peace Love on Designspiration

Our Hope Peace Love poster is on Designspiration.

Fine mosaic typography

Very fine mosaic typography on the Paris metro, seen this week. 'Arial mosaic' I would guess.

France embodies everything...

Comment on New York Times terrorist attack article by Blackpoodles.

Hope Peace Love solidarity poster

Our Hope Peace Love - 13 November 2015 poster. The real symbolism of these colours.

Hope, Peace, Love, 13 November 2015

Blue is for Hope, White is for Peace & Red is for Love. A reminder of the symbolism of these colours.

Steelhenge & Stonehenge

Steelhenge is a contemporary interpretation of Stonehenge, England's prehistoric stone circle. Built of 50 blue shipping containers by Bureau A for Geneva's first independent art biennale.
Photos: D Perrenoud & National Geographic.
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/11/03/bureau-a-steelhenge-stonehenge-shipping-containers-big-biennial-geneva/

More incoherence with Potato and Fruit & Veg logos!

Adding to the confusion of the incredibly inconcistent Meat logos, Potatoes and Fruit & Veg now add further variants on the design. Inconsistent typography, typefaces, colours and layouts. Different illustration styles & colour palates, variants on the flag background... Vivre le chaos! Vivre les 70's!

Love Petits Carreaux de Paris

Love Petits Carreaux de Paris chocolates. Design by Noir Vif and chocolate by Jacques Brokel. Shape inspired by classic Paris metro tiles, that we have in our Paris kitchen.

Design's contribution to the UK economy is 7%

Latest figures from the UK Design Council.

Jollypop lollipops & packaging.

Amazing Jollypop lollipop's from March in Vilnius, Lithuania. Great food design & packaging design.